Utilitarians Everywhere

The lovely and talented Donovan Morgan Grant and I talked about Professor Marston and the Wonder Woman on his podcast, the Comic Book Film Revue.

At Thinkprogress I wrote about a study that shows that when female homicide rates dropped when Craigslist opened its erotic services section.

At the Verge I argued that Elizabeth Marston and Olive Byrne totally had sex with each other just like the new movie says.

At Pacific Standard I told Dick Durbin not to chase those mythical sensible centrists.

At Quartz I wrote about how the Weinstein story is about patriarchy as well as sexism.

At Splice Today I wrote about

—the craven new social media policy at the New York Times.

—The Awful Truth and risqué innocence.

At Bandcamp I wrote about a great world dance album by Diron Animal.

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Why all the characters on Grey’s Anatomy are horrible people.

Happy Death Day! and making the slasher a rom com and vice versa.

Chapo Trap House needs to stop mocking victims of sexual assault.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At Bandcamp I did a gloriously massive list of sludge metal.

At Pacific Standard

—I wrote about how panic over free speech on campus is a threat to free speech.

—Ilana Gershon and I wrote about how studying the humanities teaches you to job hunt.

At Playboy I explained why the television Watchmen adaptation will suck.

At Splice Today I wrote about

—Lookingglass theater’s Dickens adaptation and how capitalists these days love the circus.

—a terrible piece at the Tablet which blamed Weinstein’s abusiveness on his Jewishness.

—the Philadelphia Story and the joys of humiliating women.

 
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On Humans and how robot narratives are programmed for racism.

How to pass gun control.
 
Utilitarians Everywhere

At the Verge I wrote about Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and police violence.

At Quartz I wrote about Cass Sunstein’s new book and whether Donald Trump can be impeached.

At Splice Today I wrote about:

—Ben Sasse, Pajama Boy and attacking Nazis by comparing them to Jews.

—Monkey Business, and being a screwball comedy after all the screwball comedies are gone.

 
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So my little ebook on women film directors still doesn’t have any reviews. If you’re one of the twelve people who read it, consider posting a few words to say how you did or didn’t like it? Crowdsource your inner essence, while joining my tremulous marketing process!
 
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For Patrons I wrote about Inglourious Basterds and Holocaust denial.

I argued that voting rights should be the Democrat’s top priority—yes, even before health care.

Utilitarians Everywhere

At A Beautiful Perspective I wrote about SWOP Behind Bars’ program to get cell phones to incarcerated sex workers on their release.

At Bandcamp, I wrote

—Blood Drive and the bloody intestines of quality television.

—a list of bands influenced by the music of Ennio Morricone

At Splice Today I wrote about

—how The Girl from Hanoi shows that all American war films are imperialist.

—the fantastic music YouTube channel Vinyl Reincarnation.

—about an amazing album of music for 80s Japanese commercials by Yasuaki Shimizu.