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We’re going back a little earlier in time today: to 1989. Before we start, let me give you an idea of what we’re working with here: “And that’s what I think women find from my novels, they find ways to make their man feel important and comfortable. To let him know that he is the man. You know, so there’s no confusion.” - Mary Fisher Vom!! Loading... Note: Real life Roseanne Barr sucks.

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Whenever asexual representation is brought up in media, one of the first names brought up every time is Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory. I'm asexual, and I personally hated Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory. I personally hated Sheldon because of how the Big Bang Theory made Sheldon's lack of interest in sex the comic relief, portraying Sheldon as some Peter Pan who's stuck in Neverland. So often, aces like me are infantilized and treated pejoratively for being asexual.

When it’s real, it hits like a ton of bricks. The difficult thing to convey sometimes is that the best pro wrestling isn’t complicated. When I see Shinya Hashimoto standing at the curtain, hands pressed together against in his face in meditation, I get it. I don’t need the history of the UWFi, the context of Takada’s title reign, or any of that other stuff. That one image carries all the emotion needed to sustain the match—Shinya Hashimoto has one goal, and that’s to bring home the IWGP Heavyweight Championship.

Catch up on Shogun: Everything is far more intense in this adaptation when compared to the 1980 adaptation. There was a brightness and even lightness to much of the 1980 adaptation, including the events that overlap with this newest episode in 2024. Buntaro is a terrifying warrior but there’s almost something companionable about their drinking contest in 1980. Not so here! There’s a vicious undercurrent to Buntaro. He is the ultimate badass.

You don't want your hero to be so ahead of everyone else that it ruins the tension, though. In comics, both Black Panther and Batman run into this problem from time to time. It's satisfying to have the hero reveal that he's secretly been five steps ahead of everyone else once in a while, but if it's consistent, it gets boring. Dumbledore is a tricky case, and if a particular reader finds that he drains the tension from the books or movies, I can't argue.

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I used to know a speech pathologist who played "The Word Game" with her public school students, and she said the hard-of-hearing kids, when asked what the opposite of "headlights" was — no matter how carefully she pronounced it — almost always answered, "not having head lice." An assumption that the kids’ misunderstanding was just about their faulty ears would miss the point. It was also related to the context of the students’ experience.

Always so on the pulse and in touch with the zeitgeist, me. That’s why this column today is about the David Beckham documentary. Did you watch it? Of course you did. Don’t get me wrong, I watched it when everyone else did, but I’m just not one of these people who can thrash out a searing hot take on The Thing That Everyone Is Talking About. Quite often the very fact that something is the only topic of conversation is the thing that really turns me off adding my noise.