To be fair to her, if this is how he teaches her to use a can opener, she probably is really behind in other areas.

I imagine she hasn’t made it very far teaching herself how to read.

Also her dad called her stupid a lot in the tweets and I’m sure she’s internalized that.

I did like most of the anime I watched, just sometimes need to take breaks from male-focused media.

My favorites of the things I watched were FMA (both original and Brotherhood) and Code Geass.

I recently started watching anime and I haven’t really found one yet that has good female characters (although I really haven’t watched many yet).

The ones that don’t sexualize the characters like FMA and Deathnote still don’t give the women a lot of agency and they’re always serving the men.

Code Geass had at least one female character I liked but sexualized her and the others a lot.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica is a satire of magical girl anime so it does trod in some of the tropes, but by the end I think the female characters have agency and real relationships with each other. But it still ultimately feels like men writing women.

I think Erased was also okay about this. It was a male-centered story but there were significant female characters and I don’t remember any of them being sexualized. Not sure if it passes the Bechedel test though.

Overlord was the worst one for me that I’ve seen and I couldn’t finish it.

Hi Matt,

Urbanist-related question here. We clearly have a housing shortage issue in this country. How would you propose that zoning and NIMBY-ism issues be addressed?

In addition, along with the coming internal climate migration that is predicted, what proactive urban planning suggestions would you give to those cities mostly likely to grow (such as those in the Mid-west)?

Answer:

The best thing to do is to link federal transportation money to housing reforms.

Yes let’s make it so places that don’t want to house poor people also have incentive to cut public transportation.

I think it’s kind of the same thing we saw with Kobe Bryant.

RBG was instrumental in a lot of legal wins for women’s rights and also was a very prominent, powerful woman in a male-dominated profession.

But there’s also a lot of shitty things about her that the people who lionize her don’t want to hear.