"Oh, I hated/was bad at math in school."

My stock reply: "Whelp, more for me!" ...and then I turn away from them, indicating the conversation is over.

[instantly] I would die for the Creature

[2 seconds later] I would murder for the Creature

[10 seconds later] I would murder Victor specifically for the Creature

Despite your examples being about the costs of having a (traditionally) female body, most of the responses are about the cost of societal expectations of men, which seems like a whole different conversation. Having a (traditionally) male body is cheap and easy, mostly.

You might be in some danger, unless Brennan can have a heart-to-heart with the kidnappers and convince them the real enemy is the system

The rich people money has to go SOMEWHERE, and its not like there is any real economy to invest in anymore. We have to let them play casino with sci-fi vaporware so they don't get dragged down by our endless vulgar recession.

Happy birthday!

It occurs to me that a man pursuing a forbidden love with someone of limited maturity or agency is often read as predatory, which would be a particular problem in gender-flipping the GdT examples. A man falling in love with the childlike innocence of a femme-Creature just doesn't read the same.

What a delightful read!

I hope this project tries to find its own voice and strengths, but so many live-action remakes settle for hitting as many "oh thats familiar" moments as possible.

It's a very GenAI sensibility. It doesn't have to make you feel anything, it just has to tickle the recognition part of your brain.

I think he is helped by the fact that his public persona is SO hollow and fake. It's hard to imagine he is a person off-screen at all, rather than powering down when the cameras stop.

Every step in the process towards professorship has a selection bias for confidence, independence, and resistance to criticism.

It's the people who don't want to be told how to cook an egg, they want to understand every part of the process first...so most of them have no idea how to cook an egg.

Truly no group of people are worse at splitting a check than mathematicians.

There are a lot of things that change significantly in math classes after calculus: the quality and consistency of instruction drops, the amount of material increases, and the emphasis shifts hard from teaching techniques to teaching perspectives. It's a cliff for a lot of people.

Lol, one of the glib lines that I tell incoming grad students in orientation: "The one thing that all grad students have in common is feeling guilty that they don't understand linear algebra"

You may be a few standard deviations out there on this one.