So how is it ‘’mysogynistic’’ to point out that many abusive women really do use this sort of shaming language towards men that can be summed up as ‘’You’re not a real man!’’ and for which thus the term ‘’emasculating’’ is not only factually accurate, but the only one that adequately encapsulates the dynamic of the…

Appa is in Star Wars now.

What you talking????

No, Appa!!!!

I get how the offense could linger, marinating in a feeling of foolishness for not realizing that no company would ever tweet that and expect it to be taken at face value.

People read the first Tweet, reacted, and then stuck to their reactions.

It feels like a lot of people have lost or abandoned the ability to differentiate a joke that is about a subject from a joke at the expense of a subject.

Is it weird that only saw that first Tweet and immediately knew they were talking about the foodservice industry’s problem with misogyny? I think the only people who were upset by that were the people who’ve been ignoring it.

Is the idea “let’s make some Star Trek that actually feels like Star Trek”?

I don’t care what a grouchy, lame old man he sounds like, Russell Crowe is right, Master and Commander is absolutely amazing.

McNab is an idiot. Master & Commander’s sound design alone is more hardcore than half the movies that have come out since.

Yep. I don’t like Crowe, but he’s right there. Master And Commander is a brilliant movie. Possibly the best, or only truly good, sail age naval movie ever made.

Except Master & Commander is actually good. 

When they made it they were hoping it would be the start of a franchise - I think there’s at least a dozen books in the series it’s based on. It did well, but not enough to justify the cost of sequels (movies set on water are notoriously expensive and difficult shoots).

I haven’t seen Master & Commander in years but I agree that it is under-appreciated. 

he joins a chorus of privileged public figures who have felt a need to speak out against this maligned “cancel culture”—which tends to actually consist of marginalized communities speaking out against sustained, systemic abuse

The answer to why someone would be angry at that suggestion, and why that doesn’t work, is because a person’s coming out is not like if Julia Roberts got married to John Smith. They’re embracing the person that they didn’t publicly identify as, and conflating that with changing a maiden name wouldn’t be respectful.…

My favorite line in the book is from the Introduction. Vonnegut tells a friend of his he’s working on an anti-war novel, and his friend says “Yeah? Why don’t you write an anti-glacier novel instead?”

I want a BSG-style total reboot of B5. The original series did almost too good of a job of resolving itself, to the point that the various sequel attempts had less room to tell effective stories and suffered from it.