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Dawn of the Dead gives me faith that Zack Snyder can handle a backboned female protagonist that I give a crap about just fine, if that's what he's setting out to do. Given the character, I'm pretty sure he'll keep awareness and at bare minimum not screw it up.

And with that, you win all the Internets.

What's so hard to understand? The GotG plug interrupts the narrative flow from movie proper to final post-credits scene. Basic film stuff here.

The GotG tag comes mid-credits before the second tag at the very end continues and bookends the movie's narrative. I'm surprised how many people here are oblivious to that less-than-ideal cutting room choice.

Actually, the results of the study strongly stand against the notion of the differences being wholly or mainly environmental in difference. Social pressures would show a wider age range of effect. The data set produced creates a very strong correlation with puberty onset and general hormonal changes with age. The

Jezebel has been on a streak of viewing non-gendered issues through a gender essentialist lens. I suspect that the irony is not lost on at least some of you. This issue is about a culture of individualism and personal sufficiency. The avoidance of "clingy" guys is just as prevalent. Just to be clear, that isn't a

I was completely unprepared for so many to come out of the woodwork to defend this guy on Jezebel. I know full well the excuse and mimimize train. I just didn't expect it here in remotely such strength. Are the parallels to rape apology that obscure? Is the racism inherent in lecturing people of color about what is

He seems to have mistaken you for a British songstress and if his own identity is so confused, professional assistance may behoove his well-being.

As a white male, let me reveal my glorious woman of color dating secret to you other white males: I just regard and talk to them like any other human being. I've found it to be a very successful tactic. I understand that approach may be so far outside the norm as to ping you fringe bullshit meter, but seriously trust

To be fair to the Dude:

I think people who don't believe this is possible, let alone probable, never experienced much rough and tumble in their lives. If you disbelieve, talk to people who did crosscountry running, played football, or so on. You'd obviously be surprised what kind of freak injuries can happen all based on how one falls.

Thank you! You really hit the nail on the head.

Using exotic locales and peoples as mere props in stories about the travails of wealthy white people is a classic expression of racism and white privilege. Presenting this story as anything remotely resembling the SADDEST THING EVAR OMG when commonplace suffering in that prop backdrop is far worse is obviously

I didn't say it was not dramatic. I didn't say she added details to spice things up. Neither notion comes close to my statements. Straw men as a terrible substitute for an actual response.

There's definitely some weird pushback, especially for Jezebel, on calling this out as a classic travel narrative expression of white privilege and racism.

Rich white people telling melodramatic versions of their tales of woe against a backdrop of non-white exotic locations where the most commonplace of woes makes the rich person's suffering mild by comparison is an entire trope and expression of racism in itself. If you really don't understand how this is an expression

This is not a remotely new beauty standard. The lack of cultural awareness in this post is deafening, especially for Jezebel. This is an extremely Indian phenomena and blatantly racist/classist. This is all about caste and skin color. Dark skin anywhere on a light-skinned Indian is considered unattractive in Indian

To be clear, I hate the inappropriately noodled armed warrior chick meme. (My #1 offender: A waifling playing a Shield Maiden of Rohan. If you can heft a shield and wield a sword, you do not have the waif look.) That said, this seems to be taking the concern to a self-parodying extreme, because it doesn't apply here.

I'm still trying to wrap my brain around exactly how this happened.