This is the most detailed report of how a reporter didn’t break a story that I’ve ever read. I get what is being said, though. Reporters may know more than they can print. Jezebel wasn’t just fishing around when they printed the rumors, but it is more of a grey area than they are letting on with their claim, “This is…

Even given census demographics, the writing rooms are still too white. But I will give you this, sort of. Census demographics are not the gold-standard in regards what diversity is or should be, but conversations about diversity that don’t acknowledge demographics as part of the picture come off as dishonest…

That’s Scott Rosenberg’s rhetorical question, that quote, I mean.

The vulva wasn’t always so sexualized. I think you might credit the 21st century porn for that. Before, vaginas were often implied to be ugly or gross (sort of in the way we’re talking about penises here.) There was a theory that men’s obsession with breasts (and feet) was a way of avoiding the vagina, the “vagina…

The divide within the autism community between adults with high-functioning autism (though they would eschew the term) and the parents of low-functioning autistic individuals probably provides the context for the OP’s post. Basically, those with challenging, but quantifiable less debilitating expressions of ASD (like…

Hillary was put through the ringer by our sexist society. However, the Democratic party did what they could for her in the primaries, that’s a documented fact. She is not the victim of the Democratic party.

It sound’s like the guy is getting a second chance. Despite his atrocious behavior, it doesn’t rise to the point where I think he doesn’t deserve one.

He’s widely known as a person who struggles with depression, terrible depression, and of course he’s going through a bad time because of his inexcusable behavior towards the ex-girlfriend who committed suicide. But even before that, he always came off as someone frantically dog-paddling above the abyss.

I have a different take, but one that also emphasizes how difficult these situations are. Graduate programs, the relationships between professors and graduate students, between graduate students and other graduate students, are messy as hell. The whole system needs to be cleaned out, but that’s easier said than done.…

Is all this drawn from ancillary materials? It’s like a tea reading of TFA because absolutely none of this is actually in the movie. In the movie, she’s a pretty flat character who effortlessly overcomes any obstacle or challenge, robbing the story of dramatic tension.

We’ll never know where Serena would rank on the men’s tour, but not even she questions whether she would be competitive as a top player. Here’s a quote from her about the prospect of playing Andy Murray.

I’m familiar with Jezebel’s dislike of Aaron Sorkin, but is there a Charlie Kaufman issue as well. That would make me sad. Kaufman is great.

Years back, I had dinner with her and Jude Law and a few others, mostly popular academics, and she undertook a relentless campaign to be the guiding intelligence of that evening’s conversation. Maybe she isn’t dumb, I don’t know, but she was surrounded by really smart people and she talked over everyone, interrupted…

You hit it out of the park. I’ll recast it slightly: the desire to reclaim the experiences of young women and POC from disdain and dismissal has necessitated taking another look at the music these groups listen to, which in some cases has been indeed unjustly denigrated and in other cases remains disposable trash.

Subjective quantifications like “massive” are indeed relative, otherwise what does “massive” even mean? A massive star is a star that is bigger than other stars, while a dwarf star, massive compared to most things, is for a star not massive. That is how the word “massive” is used, to indicate relative size.

Yes, it was probably unwise, though approximately 900 American tourists visit North Korea every year, and since 2010, only one, Otto Warmbier, has been detained. That’s a 1.6% chance of any visitor being detained.

So, it wasn’t a massive persecution. There were no camps, the arrests were in the single digits, etc. The list of the 20th century’s massive persecutions “of their own people” is long, including the Holocaust, Cambodia, the Balkans, the Great Purge in Russia, Mao’s Cultural Revolution. The Red Scare is not on that…

He was taking a trip in Asia, and this was offered, a curated and short jaunt into North Korea that he signed up with with a few friends. I’m sure he was told it was safe. Others had done it. It probably seemed like an adventure. And there’s no compelling case he took that poster. The video was dubious. His…

I don’t understand what you’re saying about Russia, nukes, and the U.S. flipping. Flipping how?

Women have endured a relentless campaign forever, the purpose of which is to make us embarrassed and secretive about our bodies. One result was to create all these opportunities for “vulger” humor that has become repetitive and predictable perhaps, the way things become repetitive and predictable so fast now.…