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Huh. So the heroes from Earth team up with the heroes from space to take on the super-powerful secret puppetmaster villain who wants ultimate godlike power, but who ends up winning with a shocking cliffhanger, leaving the heroes to have to fight in the ruins left from his victory. Seems like a pretty cool plot, it’s a… Read more

Tell them to make sure they have strong reading comprehension because it will be helpful in all aspects of life. Read more

Or, these types of articles work to delegitimize trans identities and experiences among allies and potential allies, thus reducing safety for all trans people and making it easier for fascists to harm trans folks with no protection from allies. Read more

These people think only their opinions are truly “reasonable” and only they can avoid “Group-think.” Read more

So what you’re saying is that a secret-ish group of many people who represent a significant portion of those who write the news in the US and who are passively or actively resistant to including trans perspectives in their group, despite the fact that they report regularly on trans issues and as a result have a… Read more

My own experience is that every child I know that claimed to be transgender has also changed their mind, as children do.
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The fact that they toss out around the word “groupthink” so freely while ensconced in a secret, private listserv where they happily jerk each other off about how great they are is pretty much the epitome of the problem. Read more

You’ve honestly never run into sexist progressive bros? Seriously? Take our word for it, it’s a thing, in a BIG way. Read more

It seems entirely possible that the NYT was biased against Clinton and that Clinton’s aides were sexist assholes to female reporters from the NYT. I’m not sure what the tapes are supposed to show unless he recorded every single interaction he had with Chozick. Read more

No one is saying it (so far) so I will. Best Bond movie ever. Not best Bond. But best Bond movie. Read more

Lazenby carries off Bond remarkably well for someone who was essentially nonactor, thrust into what was already iconic role completely owned by someone else. It impossible position for actor to be in, and he did admirable job. Read more

“Write about what you’re obsessed with.”

Exactly which is why I just don’t buy the idea that he was fired, because the alternative is too gross. Either WB encouraged him to use his daughter’s death as an excuse to save face. Abhorrent for both parties. Or he suggested it himself. Abhorrent for just him. Either way its not a good look for Snyder and even… Read more

I don’t think the problem is that they chose a villain that was totally unknown to the wider public, the problem is that they made the villain the worst stereotypical bad guy trope possible. His motivation was generic, his powers were unmemorable and no effort was made to make the character compelling in any way. Read more

He was born to be wild. Read more

I suspect in the two-movie version, Steppenwolf was just a harbinger of Darkseid.
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I still feel like one of the biggest, most fundamental errors of the movie was in choosing Steppenwolf as the bad guy. Given how many iconic villains DC has, choosing one who’s a deep cut even among the sub-set of the sub-set of the sub-set of people who care about the Fourth World mythos just seems to be an obvious… Read more

I've actually always sort of liked that. We don't know why Firth was at the wedding, and there are other small connections that are just—"hey, these people are friends and it doesn't come up every day in conversation how and why people are friends so roll with it!" to me. Read more