This pregnancy discrimination is horrible, but I would venture to generalize your statement to “who your manager is matters a lot.” A bad manager in a great corporate culture can make a job a nightmare.

As far as fixing transportation and congestion in Vegas, the actual transport system is not the problem. As the article mentions, there’s already a monorail there. Guess what, it doesn’t get used that much because getting to it is a nightmare. Like everything else in Vegas you have to walk through miles of casino on a…

You make an important distinction: thinking with your dick is no more harmful than dressing provocatively (for comfort or whatever reason). It doesn’t hurt anyone, and may put money in other people’s pockets. Guys shouldn’t be dick-shamed for thinking with their dicks any more than women should be slut-shamed for…

Some see things as they are and say, why; I dream things that never were and say, why not

Tell that to Milli Vanilli 

His faith is in the idea that humanity will lie to get money.

I don’t get today’s attitude that “hand drawn” = primitive crap compared to CGI. Yes, for some things hand drawn is bested by photorealistic CGI. But is all art now 3D rendered? No, most art is still drawn ... maybe drawn on a computer screen, but drawn. It is a fundamentally different medium with fundamentally…

Any horrific cruelty can be used to make generalized statements about whatever groups the committer of that cruelty belongs to. I don’t think women have some sort of monopoly on cruelty, or on stereotypes generalized from individual instances of cruelty. People of all stripes are alternately cruel and have false…

If only there could be something written about such a hypothetical audiovisual presentation that would summarize its answers to those questions so people could decide if they should watch it or not. It could be called a “retrospective view” or “review” for short.

I’m sure the bar they were aiming for was articles and discussions like this to generate buzz about how sensitive (“Song of the South”) Disney is.

Not yet, wait until 2020! #dontlookatme

IMO looking for “the metaphor” too hard ruins this movie. If you just watch it as an interesting situation, it’s weird and great. If you look for the deep meaning (and I’m pretty sure some was intended) it comes apart. And yes, the last 15 minutes went way over the top of even “suspend your belief” plausibility. But,…

Universal rule: you can find assholes of every nationality. Assholes are common to all countries or any other grouping of people. It’s the one thing that ties us all together!

PREACH DREW!

I am so glad you’re back, and thanks for this essay. It really puts things in perspective. Every now and then something happens to remind us just how lucky we each are, and this essay is one of them. Thanks man!

Clearly you don’t understand optics.

The ones doing the violence are guilty, but so are the ones that allow systemic violence under their “care.” It’s just like bullies in schools. Our species is not that far separated from chimps or other primates despite what people like to believe. Physical / emotional domination and threat of it is how the strong get…

This is the right take. The Joker is one of the best characters in comics precisely BECAUSE he has no well defined origin. It raises him to a surreal almost mythic level. He is the opposite of Batman. Batman has an origin story we’ve all been forced to see many times over, so well defined you could cut a tomato with…

If the idea of a corporation bluffing and bullshitting about its “wokeness” on the way to billions of dollars is shocking to you, I strongly recommend you not look too closely at the politicians who do the same. It’s just one more flavor of koolaid to give the masses while shaking them down for money. The concepts are…

I love all the people who think justice in this country is something simple we can all see and explain, that makes sense, and is actual justice. I’m sure what went on here is money, the guilty protecting the guilty, and “you didn’t see anything here, just move along”