People on keto diets to restrict blood sugar. People who have problems with certain FODMAPs, so they can’t have beans, soy, or other legumes. People with food allergies. People taking medicines that have food interactions.

I’ll give you an example. One of my relatives, one of her children has the following food…

This is may sound pretty far fetched, but I have a theory that Star Wars, The Emprise Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, The Force Awakens, Rogue One, The Last Jedi and Solo are, in fact, all part of the same cinematic universe.

Does anyone else here find Brad Bird’s Objectivist leanings especially icky right now in the wake of MeToo and particularly in relation to Pixar founder John Lasseter’s history of questionable behaviour as an employer?

Oh man, don’t make sex workers deal with incels. They already face high rates of violence, and I have to think that would only be increased by dealing with these violent, entitled dickwads.

Some background: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/food/wp/2017/08/04/a-bourbon-heiress-says-she-was-fired-from-the-family-business-because-shes-a-lesbian/

The whole profile in which this appears is insanely poignant. That this isn’t the most compelling point is a testament to that piece.

I think Lauren covered this:

Ummm... Right. (If she doesn’t think the characters could possibly be gay—and frankly I never thought her reaction was homophobic—why would she kill them off for being gay?)

I guess that would also be one explanation for her homophobia.

This is a really bad take on a great article.

Criticism isn’t censorship. That’s a pretty basic distinction, man.

I know that this is about the depiction of women, but people should also be aware of the hefty amounts of racism in most of R.E.Howard’s work. Honestly though it’s hard to measure it by our standards now, I often think it’s a product of the time and would like to believe that the same stories presented now in a more…