Do these assholes want free speech or not? The complaints of people like Osbourne and Morgan are primarily that when they say things publicly, other people disagree with those things, often not nicely. The only way to resolve those complaints is to require that people be deferential to the opinions of the powerful and…

Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but not everyone is entitled to a nationally broadcast platform to express their opinion. And as a result we see a dialogue about continually narrow perspectives being thrown about like beads during Mardi Gras.

Not to mention that the Prime Directive in Star Trek is kind of pointless because 90% of the time the plot allows the heroes to say “I know we aren’t supposed to take sides in a conflict in a primitive civilization, but just this once we’ll make an exception”

Yes, no one in Hollywood ever got a role based on anything other than their acting skill. Are you kidding with this?

“There’s no unfairness here. Anyone is free to use the free spaces in the correct ways which just so happen to be the ways I want to use them. I don’t want to sleep in the park, I would rather sleep in the house I have. The poor’s should just get houses.”

This is a really dumb and pathetic attempt at an own. Wilde’s unprofessional behavior is directly implicated in a high-profile movie’s critical failure, and it’s newsworthy, especially given Jezebel has a niche focus on Hollywood and celebrities. But, as Cheung pointed out, it’s not nearly as serious or newsworthy as…

I think “Create-a-debt” is my mother’s middle name. She loves doing favors for people they didn’t ask for and then later leveraging that act to influence their behavior.

Exactly. This narrative is the exact thing Diana was trying to escape throughout her marriage. That she was some sort of vulnerable, damaged, hysterical woman. She had her struggles but it all leads back to the fact she was in a loveless marriage to the future king of England and was expected to be this smiling…

Which conveniently takes all agency away from Diana and turns the interview into something she regretted, a contention some have argued against.

I’ve been appalled at the charge led by William to somehow discredit Diana’s Panorama interview. It’s possible Bashir was disingenuous in getting her to agree to it, but using that to make it seem like she might not have been telling the whole truth when she is not here to speak for herself and that choice directly…

I wish that just occasionally articles like this would mention that sometimes the problem isn’t just the other person. Sometimes the problem is that you are making it very unclear when you have completed a thought (or not).

it’s a bit stupid and ignorant, and ultimately counterproductive, to frame high involvement conversationalists as “rude,” because it asumes that only one culture is right and only one conversational style is acceptable.

A while back I commented that I thought Syed should never have been found guilty based on the prosecution’s case, but that I still thought he was guilty. Someone replied to me first ranting about how I could think he shouldn’t have been convicted if I thought he did it (it’s “innocent until proven guilty” not…

That’s honestly one of the wild things about her career, for me: you always hear about actresses seeing their careers tank once they hit her age, and meanwhile, hers is the complete opposite story: she’s doing the Alan Rickman, when she sees her star go supernova. It’s awesome, and weirdly feels almost a little…

That makes sense. She got her start in The Mickey Mouse Club (with another notable decent musician-actor Justin Timberlake), so she had a bit of a background in it from an early age.

Agreed.

It’s kind of weird to me how the expectation that people conform to rigid gender identities/stereotypes has gotten stricter over the last decade or so. When I was in college the idea was to completely disconnect gender identity from arbitrary signifiers like wearing dresses or using makeup or having gender-appropriate…

Levar Burton is a national treasure, you can stfu you transphobic dick weed 

Weird response man. But I do know for a fact that you are a toxic creep so I’m inclined to believe you’re also projecting about the “grooming incel” bit as well since that certainly doesn’t apply to me.

I’d argue that Robert’s Rebellion was when native Westerosis finally broke their chains and deposed their foreign masters, who no longer ruled with the threat of WMD’s.