Do we even know the character is meant to be trans? In a society with advanced and modular cybernetic enhancements a giant robot penis might be the equivalent of a fancy strap-on. I wouldn’t inherently assume they have it because of dysphoria any more than I would assume Adam Jensen had dysphoria about his lack of…

I still liked Australia-era Madelyne, even if the reasons for her breakup were awful. 

She hasn’t ever actually been a member of Excalibur, though, has she? I mean, MI-13 is still a British team, and Captain Britain is on both rosters, but it’s a pretty different group in general. 

Pushes up glasses It’s Krakoa, not Krakatoa.

I honestly don’t understand how a show like this works. “Here’s an awards show, at prime-ish time on a national broadcast network, all about events that mostly only occur in one city and that cost hundreds to see”. Do people watch the Tonys even if they haven’t seen any of the plays? 

I think a little self-reflection would reveal at least some anger directed inward for spending so much time, energy, and often money caring about something so completely out of their control.

Northstar is at his absolute worst when he’s being pitched as a romantic lead. I like him when he’s an arrogant bastard, like Namor and Quicksilver, but when they emphasize him being in a loving relationship they tone that down to make him nicer. 

Orlando’s Midnighter was tedious and tepid. For a better look at the character and his marriage, go back to the Wildstorm stuff, that’s where Midnighter and Apollo really shine. 

Is this just a deliberately terrible list? Larson, Lawrence, Cage, Stewart, Sandler, Adams, Hammer, Cooper, Johansson, these people have all made great films. And there’s probably a few I’m missing. If you’re going to stand there and tell me that Room, Adaptation, Punch-Drunk Love, Under The Skin, and Sharp Objects…

I think Keanu’s sort of grown into acting. He still can’t really emote much, but just stick him in a role where he doesn’t have to, like John Wick, and he’s great.

Lawrence is great in the right role, she just gets a lot of blockbuster work where she has nothing interesting to do. But she does very well for herself in stuff like Winter’s Bone. 

I think it was the right choice. There are only so many options- you could recruit native Russian speakers, but that’s a relatively small talent pool and there’s a certain distance it creates. And English speakers doing Russian accents can turn cartoonish pretty quickly. 

Presumably a lot of the other stuff isn’t being played to begin with. If you’re going to a standard poppy nightclub you’re already not going to hear Neutral Milk Hotel or Slayer, that goes without saying.

The kids acting weren’t the best, but I’ll let that slide because, hey, they are kids.

I just don’t see racism there. The Facebook posts apologize for offending people, but they don’t say “we did this to be racist” or anything like that. You’re pulling conclusions out of thin air. 

It ain’t like anybody bans pop or rock for being “aggressive and unwelcoming” even though they often make songs about shit like serial killers and school shootings.

It makes more sense to me to have it as a written policy than just verbally telling each DJ individually. I just don’t think it’s that weird to have a club decide “we’re going to focus on pop, specifically, rather than hip hop”. 

Why would you assume a gay club is going full MAGA just because they don’t want rap? Liking or disliking a specific genre doesn’t make you a bigot. Country music is hated by most people at this point, but that doesn’t make them racist just because it’s an overwhelmingly white genre, people just don’t like country…

The discrimination faced by queer people? This is an LGBT bar banning rap music, there’s no conceivable way that’s homophobic. 

I’m not sure this is inherently racist. I mean, there are a lot of genres a nightclub might not play. They’re probably not going to go metal, or grunge, they’re not going to play string quartets or smooth jazz. It ends up coming down to the musical taste of the people running it, and presumably they have a theme in…