(This is going to be a long one… I’ve put off writing about this for a while.) So about two and a half months ago, America seemingly got really bored and decided to end itself… you know… cuz why not? At least that’s one view. Another view is that a small sect of megalomaniacal billionaires, the…
Month: January 2017
Politics, Pop culture
Football > Politics
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I often like to say that in current social media landscape, politics is basically just football. The specific policies and actions don’t matter anymore. You pick your team and you stick to it and anyone that opposes your team is automatically an asshole and anyone who is for your team is automatically good. Logic doesn’t matter and…
Gender & Sex, Movies, Race & Class
Hidden Figures, Visible Baiting: The game of imitation in Hollywood biopics.
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Pop culture
Introducing Mav’s Really Depressing Celebrity Dead Pool – 2017!
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So for the last several months, I’ve been watching people get al upset at “2016 having killed yet another celebrity!” Towards the end of the year, I started joking that it was “really going to suck, when people started realizing that celebrities are going to die in 2017 too.” There’s lot of questions as to whether…