No, I didn’t. There’s the textual question of “Are androids human?” but then there’s the subtextual question surrounding Rachel. There’s a reason why Rachel is the android (really gynoid) that is requires so much investigation, and that’s because Blade Runner is calling on the noir plot-line (where a man spends his…

Go ask every philosopher before Mary Wollstonecraft. Of course it’s a fucking stupid question, just like sexism is a fucking stupid position!

I know! If only they’d made the movie about her.

My point about Joshi is that even when the film gives us a three dimensional woman, she still wants to bone the protagonist. The film can’t make women whose identity treats men as incidental to their own.

In the sense of “human” that means “person,” yes.

I’m not saying women aren’t human. Aristotle said it. And I don’t agree with him.

Ana is defined as a character based on her relationship to her father.

One of the oldest problems in philosophy is “Are women human?” and the original Blade Runner asks that question through Deckard’s investigation of Rachel, and eventually comes to the correct answer. The big problem with 2049 is that while it also believes that women are people—cf Joi’s character growth and the film’s…

You should, because that was baaaaad.

This is a terrible example, since The Awakening is an American classic.

And I am HERE. FOR. IT.

Came for this exact joke. Was not disappointed.

I sincerely hope he isn’t saved from his Nice Guy-ness with the power of love.

Let’s scrap it and make the Nightwing movie of my dreams? With a Midnighter cameo? Batman dies during the Batgirl movie in an ironic twist on “The Killing Joke”?

I think you missed part of the point. All things that make the a Keurig wasteful also make it horribly inefficient.

Terry Pratchett’s later Discworld novels move beyond medieval stasis into some interesting and hilarious territory.

For what it’s worth, I apologize for that.

Well here’s the great thing about that definition. Sure, you can think of “implicit” as meaning implied and therefore intentional, but there’s another word used there, and since it’s connected with that handy conjunction “or,” we know that it’s sometimes in exclusion of “implicit”; that word of course is “underlying.”…

Batman goes Victorian. Time is a flat circle.

Always love everything she writes. And it was nice to see queer people in fantasy when I was a closeted kid in high school.