Team Archie Panjabi.

I’ve always thought a really effective Batman movie might work with villains as the Protagonists. Do it from Falcone’s POV with this terrifying, shadowy monster slowly tearing his organization apart—with only glimpses of the Batman and whispered stories until the final act.

Exactly. I was just looking at these women and I swear you could cut butter with the cheekbones on some of them. Absolutely stunningly gorgeous.

Reminds me a little of The Life and Death of Jessie James. Creeeeeeeeepy.

.... Raffey?

I’ve loved Flannery O’Connor for a long time because every writing teacher I’ve ever had has been like “an FOC short story is is like a little handbook for how to write a short story” and the writing’s so funny and mean and also she was a cartoonist blah blah then a few years ago, I was writing a paper, and dipped…

If we’re going the “some” route I can share my individual story. Although I think the comments on class and WASP cultural echoes are on point.

Thank you for this!

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When you feel truly guilty about something, that feeling is usually accompanied by shame and profound embarrassment. You can’t even think about what you did without feeling like shit. You would never joke about it. When you truly fuck up and feel super guilty, in any situation, you don’t make jokes about it like “Lol…

Movie executives have long held the perception that the movie going public is incredibly stupid. So they do everything they can to simplify and appeal to that stupidity. It’s sad. But it is what it is.

I agree 100% and have made the same arguments. People can handle different versions of live action characters just fine. We can handle it. Geez, there are umpteen ‘toon versions out there, too, and nobody is freaking out about them interfering with the feature films. Seriously, make them all in parallel. We can parse…

I’ve never understood this logic that comic book companies have that having more them one adaptation of character at a time will somehow dilute the character, it’s insane. By next year we’ll have 5 adaptations of batman walking around and I doubt it will hurt the character.

I got into an argument once here on Jezebel with a guy who claimed that girls only wanted to date assholes, not nice guys, and then, by way of example, described two scenarios: one in which an “asshole” buys a girl a drink, dances with her a bit, then wanders off for a bit before coming back to ask if she wants to get…

I’d like to give The Rock a helluva workout.

I am a woman, highly intelligent, very hard working... I’m the employee who says to her boss, “No, it’s NOT okay that I was late. It’s the second time in a month, and while I appreciate that you want to let it slide because of how good of a job I do, please don’t let it slide again, promise me that the next time it…

You know what this Atlantic piece didn’t have enough of? Analysis of why groups other than straight white men can’t be dicks so easily because this piece was basically only discussed through that assumption that you’re a straight white dude, and then referenced women one time. What the hell? I mean, don’t get me…