Why do we have separate categories for Best Actor and Best Actress, but not separate categories for Best Male Director and Best Female Director? The argument I’ve heard for having gender-segregated acting categories is that if we just had a single category for acting then there is a strong possibility that many…

It’s unclear to me why Lyft would be liable for this. My understanding is that all Lyft drivers have to undergo a criminal background check, and that anyone with convictions for sexual offenses is ineligible to drive for them.

Unfortunately, this ruling is not “very reasonable”, and will almost certainly be overturned by the Supreme Court. Insurrection is a federal crime, and Trump has not been charged with this crime, let alone faced trial. I don’t see how a state court can justifiably make a decision that assumes Trump is guilty of a…

I know hating on Chris Pratt is the internet’s pastime, but it’s worth noting that the article explicitly mentions that Pratt does most of the cooking in their home. So I don’t get the whole “thoughts and prayers” bit.

“She’s served her time with a short American”? Really? So we’re fine with straight-up bodyshaming now on this supposedly feminist website.

The asymmetry regarding trans men vs trans women retaining their titles makes perfect sense given that FIDE has a women’s category (and women-specific titles) but no men’s category. There is only the women’s category and an open category. So it makes sense to say that a transitioning trans man can no longer hold on to…

If she was regularly “getting physical” in fights with Asghari, that does sound like she was hurting others in an actionable way.

It’s not 385 million. This is Jezebel’s usual garbage reporting. The Romanian authorities seized 21 bitcoin, which is worth about 600k at current prices.

The post you link to support the claim that Sudeikis is “much pettier” than his “facade” would suggest has virtually nothing to do with Sudeikis. It’s about alleged fights between Florence Pugh and Olivia Wilde. How does that show us anything about Sudeikis’s pettiness? Are you suggesting he incited these arguments…

I don’t have much of substance to contribute here, but I love the aptness of someone with your username complaining about Cate Blanchett potentially winning for the third time.

Yeoh isn’t referred to as an Asian-American anywhere in this post. It says an Oscar for Yeoh would be important for Asian-Americans (debatable) and that EEAO was about the Asian-American experience (true). Neither of these claims is the same as calling Yeoh an Asian-American. The post consistently refers to Yeoh as…

If my mother had gone to a different college than my dad went to, I would not have existed. That doesn’t mean I feel some type of way about people who don’t go to that college. There are all kinds of contingencies on which my existence hinges, but that doesn’t mean these contingencies have moral weight. And, no,…

“Wrongfully detained” is the official classification the US State Department is using for Griner. See here:

The Ferguson study linked in the post reports no significant difference in physiological strain between male and female race drivers. Of course, the study only looked at professional drivers, so there is a selection bias that precludes us from extrapolating this result to men and women in the general population.…

Describing Andrew Tate as part of the incel movement is completely off base. Tate is the archetype of what incels would call a “Chad”, a confident jock who sleeps around a lot. Incels hate chads almost as much as they hate women. And Tate didn’t exactly hide his contempt for men who couldn’t “get” women.

So wait, the “impossible situation” these players are in is that they have to settle for making many hundreds of thousands in the US as opposed to millions in Russia? They have to risk the financial instability associated with being merely in the top 1% of income, as opposed to the top 0.5%? Heaven forfend!

Just because he is not pro-choice doesn’t mean that his advocacy for women in sport is all performative. It’s quite plausible that Curry really does care about equal opportunities for women, but has also been indoctrinated into the religious dogma that personhood begins at conception, which makes him conflicted about…

Did you know that reindeer eyeballs are golden in the summer but turn blue in the winter? Isn’t that amazing?

I’m not demanding you defend anything. I just gave my opinion, and when you responded, I asked questions. If you don’t want to defend Jezebel’s editorial decisions, fine. You’re under no obligation to do that.

Covering one story with a single totally neutral post and covering the other with a bunch of angry snarky posts is pretty good evidence of what the writers are more passionate about. Do you disagree?