You can say biologically female or cis woman if you need to distinguish that you are talking about a woman who was born as a biological female.

Her points - that ‘women’ as a defined group shouldn’t be marginalised or renamed

It’s sad that so many people don’t even see the ways in which capitalism degrades and dehumanizes us all.

Cruise allegedly paid $656,000 of his own money to house the crew on cruise ships, which is nice if true.

Agreed, it was not a good haircut at all, and it was absolutely perfect for her.

Yeah, by all accounts she absolutely hated the haircut.

Yes, it does! But this is exactly the point. That haircut looks lovely on Chrissy. It’s not that Chrissy looks lovely in that particular haircut, Chrissy is just a lovely person (with a team of stylists)!

The prevalence of wigs was eye-opening to me. I didn’t realize how widespread the use of wigs was until I found out that Julia Louis-Dreyfus wore a bunch of different wigs for Veep, to avoid the hours of prep time it would have taken to achieve what looked, to me, like pretty normal hairstyles, not far off at all from…

Bringing Go Fug Yourself into this argument was a mistake. GFY has always been steeped in sexist, mean-girl, bullshit.

our scripts came with a warning of our immediate dismissal, should any material ever be disclosed. “REMEMBER … WE’RE A FAMILY AND A FAMILY IS ONLY AS STRONG AS THE SECRETS WE KEEP” each script read.

“some tattoo places offer removals, so it doesn’t seem like being “anti-removal” would be a main reason to oppose that ink.”

nevermind

Damon is referring to “the” Bible. He does not mean a “masturbation bible” as in some kind of reference guide to masturbation.

I read the Times article, and I believe the chunk quoted here is the entirety of Gladwell’s contribution to it.

His first few books were good, but Gladwell has been spewing hot garbage for a while now. It’s almost inevitable for these “public thinker” types that eventually the need for new contrarian material leads them down the road to stupid town.

I love that we live within a social system so weak that the vast majority of people are forced to go do unnecessary work in the midst of a global pandemic or risk starvation. Then we blame individuals when, inevitably, they catch a highly communicable disease.

It’s a bit self-important when you remember that the primary motivation for the whole endeavor is getting his face back on the big screen as quickly as possible.

Let’s not forget that Cruise has several hundred million dollars and enormous power in his industry. If his concern is the ability of his crew to provide for their families, he has options for helping with that which don’t involve bringing hundreds of people to the set of a completely unnecessary project.

I mean... if he were taking it THAT seriously would his MI17 vanity project even be in production in the midst of a pandemic?

The album cover doesn’t actually say “out now.”