Demonstrating that they’ve always known, and just haven’t cared.

It’s me! The three armed man!

I don’t think parents should really be afraid of either. Parents have enough scaremongering aimed at them as is. “What if my kid turns out to be a pedophile?” isn’t actually a helpful thought that’s likely to encourage good parenting.

Why not?

Not my greatest fear, but something I don’t mentioned: empty chairs are creepy. My brain insists on believing someone is sitting in them and I just can’t see them. This scene from the X-Files plays on this feeling well, as do some productions of Macbeth, but otherwise not something that’s often invoked.

Hey, my back feels fine. I’m tired all the time and have bags under my eyes darker than uncle Fester’s, but my back feels just fine.

Where is this article getting their demographic numbers, wishful thinking?

Oh don’t worry, it’s very scientific:

If you think I’m underestimating the number of Trek’s female viewers, scroll through the comments on any Star Trek-related content anywhere on the internet. Then count the number of female commenters. You’ll see a lot of guys named Steve, but you won’t see many Jennifers.

Blair Witch 2 was the unfortunate victim of studio interference. I watched this fan edit years ago that brings it more in line with the director’s intentions, and the result was a very solid horror movie. Looks like there are some newer attempts on that site now I may need to try and find.

This is the first thing I’ve read that made It Follows sound interesting! I’ll probably check it out now.

I find a huge amount of the media I enjoy has messages embedded in it that I disagree with. As an easy example, The Dark Knight incorporated a pretty clear defense of the war on terror’s erosion of civil liberties. Pretty good viewing experience, though.

So it would not confuse me to find a regressive minded person who enjoyed Star Trek despite disagreeing with it. What’s bizarre is that what I end up encountering instead are regressive people who insist that they love Star Trek and that they’ve always agreed with its messaging until recently. Either they’re lying or they are inconceivably media illiterate. Maybe they’re all bots, because I really can’t understand that level of delusion.

I agree, and the creator of the video actually goes into that toward the end, suggesting that positive masculine and feminine traits are actually just universally good traits to have, and any attribution towards one being more attuned to one gender or another is an artificial social creation.

They do, but there is a difference between acknowledging that men can also have feminine traits, and asking what these categories are really doing for us in the first place.

Still, I should say it’s a solid video. The concept of near enemies is very useful when thinking about any set of goals or values, and if it helps some people arrive at a healthier view of their own gender that’s great. Variety of tactics and all that.

I don’t see gender roles bringing a lot of value to the world, so I’d rather work towards rejecting them outright rather than trying to refine them.

These are my precise reasons for loving Quincey.

Dracula sneaks out of the country dressed in his usual all black clothes, plus a silly straw hat.

Yeah, it’s essentially a TNG fan film series with some actual money behind it. I really came to resent it when every discussion about a modern Trek series had someone popping in to say that say they should be doing Orville instead. Like Trek shouldn’t be allowed to progress past 1994.

Still, I enjoy a good fan series, so I do recommend it. Just go in with the right expectations.

With prep time?

I know, I once had someone open a discussion by complaining that Discovery features a black lesbian as the captain.

There are plenty of valid reasons to dislike the show, but it seems the loudest complainers have never actually watched an episode so the best they can do is to fall back on bigoted cliches.

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Oh I hate that about Discovery. All those preachy episodes like Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, The Outcast, and Far Beyond The Stars…

Oh wait, was TOS, TNG, and DS9. Can you remind me again when Discovery got anywhere near as focused on race or gender issues as any of those episodes?

TOS below ENT is unfathomable. I’ll have a go:

DS9, TOS, TNG, DISCO, SNW, VOY, LD, PIC, PRO, TAS, ENT

SNW would have beat out DISCO if it weren’t for season 3. Of course, I’m super mercurial and will stand by none of this in a week.