I love bowling with my friends. It’s two things, and I enjoy them both very much.

If this is you thinking you’re getting away with the dog whistles and nobody else is seeing it, it’s not working.

Now… what’s all that supposed to mean without the dog whistles?

The Most Dangerous Game is in the public domain almost everywhere, so no need to buy it from Amazon. It entered public domain in the US as of last year and Europe (where copyright is life of the author plus 70 years) two years ago.

I think you’re right, and that’s somehow an even worse take than what I initially thought they meant!

Douglas, also on Netflix.

Goddamn, Hannah Gadsby is great.

I also like that we’re seeing workers increasingly viewing collective action as a possible response to cultures of harassment, misogyny and abuse. None of us need to tolerate that shit in our workplace, and any victim’s voice can be heard when they speak with the power of the collective.

Solidarity forever.

While some employees disagree, we have a strong belief that content on screen doesn’t directly translate to real-world harm.

I legitimately can’t tell if this is saying that Halloween Kills is a morally bankrupt horror by asking the audience to confront the consequences of the trauma it depicts, or if it’s making fun of that idea. I can’t figure out which direction the snark is supposed to be coming from!

Hey, y’all—I’m getting some responses in the grays that I can’t read. I’m not ignoring anyone, I’m sorry! I just can’t get Kinja to show me any gray responses underneath the “show more” button. I get the sense a few people are agreeing and a few people are trying to dunk on me, but I just can’t read them besides the…

Yeah, you too.

I don’t! But that’s undeniably what kicked this off. Dorland was unhappy that an apparently-distant acquaintance of hers, a writer of color, didn’t like her Facebook post about the sacrifice she made, and had to send an email about it.

Oh, I see what you mean. For sure, that makes sense.

Maybe I wasn’t being clear, that’s on me. Me talking about the racial dynamic in the real world here (not in the story or the letter) is about specifically the dynamic of a white woman seeing a woman of color get success she wishes she had, as referenced in the NYTM piece itself—she only reads the story when she sees…

That would be her public Facebook post that was easily adapted into a white savior story. As far as I’m aware, that is the most white-saviory or white-savior-adjacent thing we know her to have done; I call it that because her words didn’t need to be changed to create that narrative around the letter. But the letter is …

Ok! I don’t know what this means!

I didn’t say donating a kidney is white-saviory. It’s not a kidney donation that inspired the story, of course.

The NYTM piece also states that Larson filed first. It also recognizes that this occurred after Dorland had been harassing and threatening lawsuits including by calling a whole bunch of organizations Larson had even briefly been affiliated with in the past.