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As Jenny Nicholson’s video essays usually are, it is rather light on politics (in comparison to other stuff posted on Ghazi), but this video is perhaps a near-perfect showcase of out-of-touch executives bungling what should have been a easy success.

The framework of “[cis character] must pretend to be [“opposite” gender] before restoring their [femininity or masculinity]” invites biological determinism by making the plot’s stakes dependent on the successful concealment of the main character’s “true” (here, meaning “assigned-at-birth”) gender. The idea of...

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Kid Rock, a.k.a. Bob Ritchie, used to bring together rock, country, and hip-hop fans with his eclectic music. Now his MAGA politics are dividing fans.

Final Fantasy VII taught me that militant resistance is sometimes not only necessary, but morally correct

Well to give you a basic rundown… men’s existence is to be guy being dude (and spin block in head), women’s existence is to manipulate guy being dude (and remember olive oil), gay and trans people’s existence is to confuse evolutionary psychologists, David Buss’s student surveys are totally accurate, hypergamy has...

The updated script clarifies the original English localization.

Elon Musk, Jonathan Chait, and Debbie Hayton are among the diverse figures distancing themselves from Rowling’s increasingly open hostility to trans women.

The French Wikipedia article about the castle

Archived version without paywall

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