Critical Hits & Misses #282

This is my Twitter Troll Says Wut face.

• #SWISAGIRLTHINGTOO: Because Twitter trolls continuously need reminding that they don't own geek properties, and that they can't women out of those spaces just cuz. 


• And in more sexist news: Fox sports analyst Clay Travis says something crude and gross on CNN during an interview. Welcome to Trump's America. 

For today's musical hit, it's Lorde and "Homemade Dynamite"

Today's critical rolls: Geek trolls, emirite? Tell us about your experiences with gatekeeping nonsense in your fandoms.


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Critical Hits & Misses #163

• As good as the first season of HBO’s Westworld was, it lacked exploration of the effect the existence of human-like androids would have on the wider world. Thankfully, as Alex Cranz points out over at io9, we have Humans, the Channel 4/AMC remake of Swedish sci-fi show Äkta människor (Real Humans) to cover this theme


• The Entertainment Monthly blog has a pretty good post about why gatekeeping is killing the comics industry. 

For today's musical hit, we have The Weekend and "I Feel It Coming"

Today's critical roll: Gatekeeping sucks. And it's not just in the comic book fandoms. Tell us about gatekeeping you've seen or experienced in your fan or hobby groups.


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