So basically you’re suggesting that, in this world where women are still not treated as men’s equals in most fields of life, if we have movies focusing on empowered female main characters we shouldn’t focus on them being empowered women, in order to avoid hurting men’s brittle egos. Otherwise the movies and the…

But you, big strong man, are so big and strong and secure in your manliness that you can’t take women being out there doing stuff.

An “ACTUAL combat vet” doing the internet equivalent of “Moooom, girls are being mean to meeeee!” Beautiful.

Dude, you’re talking about “straightforward interpretation” but that’s not how this works. It’s not just “some ignorant idiot”. Blaming the Jews for Jesus’ arrest and death is not something that started today, or with Passion, it has been around since pretty much forever. It’s one of the driving forces behind…

You don’t hear The Doors, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, etc. in the stores either, you rarely hear covers of them, you rarely hear them in movies... and you would have to be crazy to argue that their music is forgettable. All that you mentioned is meaningless - some music is not the type to be played in stores, and…

Think whatever you want about him and his music (I’ve never been a fan, not my style) but it’s not forgettable at all, at least his early stuff (Thriller, Bad, etc.). Maybe you’re too young to have been around when he was a superstar, but with stars like this quality of music is almost secondary - even if the songs…

But then they should have said “We are investigating this and will decide when we have all information in hand” not “nah, sry”.

Thing is, Tarantino’s art is not all that great. Reservoir Dogs is one of my favorite movies, period, but it’s basically taking the last third of City on Fire, setting it in America and trimming it so it’s a 90 minutes self-contained story. And the least said of Kill Bill the better - it actually made me cringe a…

A lot of people are listening, unfortunately. And a lot of people use him for their own goals - people are already touting him as a Famous Black Person who endorses Trump so clearly black people who are against Trump are deluded idiots.

My cat is named “Lily” - long “ee” in the end when I call her. She doesn’t respond to it. What she responds is to my tone that I use when i call her - we sometimes have fun calling her using the usual tone but with completely different words/names, and she always comes running.

I’ve seen a number of situations where the woman defends the man not because of some sort of Stockholm Syndrome, but because he’s the sole breadwinner of the family, and if he’s taken away and locked up she and the children will starve. Those are the ones that really make me want to just burn the whole system down for…

The perp nodded and left and never came back, and most likely he went on abusing other children. And this is why I’m not impressed with these stories.

I just created an address I use for this purpose only...

Did you sleep through the fan reaction to ST: Discovery?

Most people, even if they’re back in the office, aren’t working hard between Christmas and New Year’s Eve.

Who is still carrying around a big ring of keys anyway?

Aaand it’s gone. Testing/opt-in is closed, for me at least.

My boss “inherited” a dog about a year ago, when one of her relatives passed on, leaving a cca 1 year old dog behind. My boss spends a lot of time in the office, but she didn’t want to take the dog to a shelter, so she ended up making her the office dog (after making sure it was OK with everyone).

There’s a good chance you’ve hooked something in there over the years to help with inbox clutter.

That’s the point, though. The article is like “oh but it’s realistic, you just have to spend 2 hours with brisk walking!” except for lot of us (most of us, I think) it’s not realistic at all: we’re simply not in a position to be able to devote two hours from our day simply to walking.