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Tag: Open Thread

The monthly social/general Open Thread goes up on a Friday evening (NYC-time) mid-month. Please natter/chatter/vent/rant on anything you like (within reason and the bounds of the comment policy) throughout the week. Other Open Threads prompted by specific events will happen every now and then.

N. B. Consider Topicality: please avoid duplicating discussion points on an active thread, and volunteer to take thread-jacks to a #spillover thread

Weekly Open Thread with the Hope Quilt

To mark International Women’s Day, this week’s threadful host is the Hope Quilt, symbol of the Hope for Housekeepers campaign against unfair work practices for hotel housekeepers (a mostly female workforce). Please natter/chatter/vent/rant on anything you like* over this weekend and throughout the week.

* with a few netiquette exceptions

Open Oscars Thread

Have at it.

**UPDATE: Way to drill down way lower than people’s worst expectations of you, Seth McFarlane. Bleagh.**

**UPDATE: WTF? appalling Onion tweet re Quvenzhané Wallis.**

SOTU Open Thread

So many pastel ties. Michelle’s bangs still look bangin. Universal pre-school access, which is a new one (and great). Everyone wants gun violence to end. Boehner can’t be bothered to stand up for five seconds to applaud a 102-year-old woman who stood in line for six hours to vote. What did you all think?

Superbowl Open Thread

I only kinda halfway watched it because being out watching the Superbowl is a Thing You Must Do, but I did pay attention to the halftime show. Beyonce! Wow. Beyonce. You are a superstar for a reason and I love you and want to be you and I am so glad you never wear pants because there is absolutely no reason for you to ever wear pants. 2013 is really her year, huh? Inauguration and the Superbowl? Not bad. I did not watch the commercials, although I saw that Audi one this morning and I agree with Amanda that it is gross. No, kissing someone isn’t rape, but walking up to a virtual stranger and planting a kiss on her because she’s hot and you’re “brave” isn’t really treating her like a person who should have some say in who she wants to kiss. It’s treating her like she’s an accoutrement to your sweet life, like that car. But as Amanda points out, it is forever fascinating that there exist “gross dudes who will die on the hill of claiming that creeping on women and forcing yourself on them is a legitimate form of flirting.” What did you all think? About the game or the commercials or Queen B or the lights going out because Beyonce is just too bright or whatever?