On Free To Be... Straight White Males
@Ledrew I think I actually do disagree with Maria on the privilege/everyone-a-victim question. She's just so freaking nice and smart that it's hard to get heated about it.
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On Free To Be... Straight White Males
@MikeBarthel This comment is full of very interesting thoughts, all of which I wish we'd been wise enough to touch upon. My inclination is to say that the internet is mostly the problem, here -- with regard to TED (which vetted rich people can watch in person, and which the rest of humanity can stream like the proles we are), and the whinging quest for victimhood. I imagine there are people who are like that in person; I've met a few, at weddings, and I can say that uncles broadly seem to be a good source of this type of person. But as long as people at least act like humans here in meatspace, we'll be broadly okay. Or more okay. There's something about saying things out loud that mediates and moderates; it's hard to imagine that Kotaku commenter saying "you just expect me to carry these boxes because I'm a white guy" out loud, for instance. Because it'd be very silly to say.
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On The Great GoogaMooga Aftermath of Subway Hippie Horror
@brent_cox Your problem is with the one art-bro in the Chris Webber Warriors jersey, right, Brent? Because I hated that, too. Wow.
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On Levon Helm, 1940-2012
That song is really good, but was also an embarrassing reminder that I mostly had no idea what The Band sounds like, besides the songs I've heard on the radio.
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On Man Storms Off Internet: Goodbye, Chris Jones!
This better not mean Jones is done jumping onto message boards to flame people who think he's pompous. (He's "typefitter") The internet would collapse without that particular kind of wrongheaded righteousness.
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On Our Week With Marilyn
@barnhouse I'm with Maria on that, both in terms of relative quality and over-the-top portion size. I've had some tasty sandwiches at Au Bon Pain, which is not quite of this caliber. Beyond that, though... I don't know, not that many good experiences, but not that many experiences, either. A friend I trust told me that Red Lobster is 100,000x worse than OG or anyplace else you can imagine. I almost want to find out, but mostly don't.
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On Our Week With Marilyn
@dntsqzthchrmn It's in my contract. I won't write for any venue that won't let me shoehorn Schnatter in there.
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On They Play To Win The Game
@bitzyboozer Aw man. I regret the error, although if I'm being honest I am also a little bit amused by it. Carrie is fixing it, and thanks for pointing it out.
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On What Movies Make You Ignore Everything Else?
@Brunhilde Early-days HBO was so weird and great with that. For years it was just boxing, Kevin Meaney comedy specials, Beastmaster and Just One Of The Guys.
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On Free To Be... Straight White Males
@boob party Why would anyone need concrete instructions on this? Anyway, briefly: the thing to do about one's privilege is to be congnizant of it, and then be an adult about it, and then treat people as you'd hope to be treated. I'm not qualified to talk about policy, which is maybe what you meant by "concrete things to do about it." I am, tenuously, somewhat closer to qualified to talk about how not to be a solipsistic turd about things like this, so I tried to do that instead.