check out this photo shoot with Noomi Rapace (original "Dragon Tattoo" and now in "Prometheus").

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Gorge.

Consuela, you mean the post about yesterday's post? I started reading it and got this far into the comments:

I have always thought this analogy explained it so much better than the “P” word (I think that offends white people as much as the “N” word does blacks)

...and I'm out. Jesus, way to go to be a case study, while still being convinced you're part of the solution. Not to mention how long I had to spend reading that over and over before I even worked out what he was talking about.

Of course it's a flawed metaphor. How could something so complicated with such twisted roots in history be explained with a simple equivalent (however, I now know what a dump stat is, so that's cool)? Why do some of the readers not get that it's going to be hard to explain?

But I guess if you don't actually pay attention to what you're reading, it's easy to...BE FULL OF OFFENSIVE BULLSHIT.

I'm gonna wager, anyway.

I started reading it and got this far into the comments

Oh, it got SO MUCH WORSE than that. Be glad you stopped. I just kept reading because I couldn't believe the overtly racist shit was not getting nuked.

Aw, Scola, I feel you. Gonna keep fighting on that lie, though.

I have a feeling that once he finishes his dinner and works his way through the thread, it's going to get shorter by at least a hundred comments, probably quite a few more.

It's been a long while since I've seen a comment thread so full of furious butthurt arguments that accomplish exactly nothing but proving the original thesis they're arguing against with all their might. And that's even before the racism, which is a whole other (and worse) universe of vomitous.

I just found a phobia I didn't know had a name. My sister suffers from it, and I have mocked her seriously.

I hope you didn't send her the wall of vaginas.

I hope you didn't send her the wall of vaginas.

Dammit! I can't do that in good conscience now, can I?

Okay, off to try and remember to buy groceries for ice cream.

alpen:

No, I seriously can't. She had a panic attack looking at the article, and I TOLD HER IT HAD A CLUSTER OF HOLES AND NOT TO CLICK.

Yeah, I did send it, I know. But I had a warning before it!

I'm just glad this conversation reminded me to go back and see the wall o'vag.

That is all.

Oh, also my brows are perfect again. She wants me to come back in a few weeks for another $40, but I'm not so sure about that.

I've decided that my new test for first dates with SWMs is to work the word "privilege" into the first ten minutes of conversation. If they spontaneously soil themselves while ranting, I can just pay for my coffee and go home.

Thank you, Scalzi. Thank you so much.