Also, let’s rip into him for being short like 7 times in the piece to completely insult him, even though he’s doing something cool here. I’m not a Cruise fan - but what??

Unless it worked for Cruise, then fine, whatever. All I know is that if Tom Cruise shrieked at me, I would simply burst into laughter.

Yup. If it were AOC in a grocery store, laying into a couple of mask-less MAGA hat wearers about how they’re endangering the cashiers and their families, everyone on Jez would be, “YAAAAS, Queen, SLAAAAAAY!!!!”

I agree. I keep holding on because I’ve been here for about 8 or 9 years and it’s been really helpful in a lot on instances for me to hear stories from a perspective that might not normally cross my radar, but the quality of the writing and the seemingly increased desire for clicks at any cost is really disappointing.…

Agreed 100%. I'm mostly hate-reading at this point, because I haven't found another "feminist website" yet. 

This place has so gone to shit, I can’t believe it’s the same site I read with Dodai, Lindy, Erin Gloria, etc. back in the day. Every writer now has to have the worst take, the edgy, bitchy take, the contrarian-14-year-old take. Between that and graying anyone who looks at them sideways, I’m just about done with this…

Yeah, this was an unnecessarily snarky take. He’s a producer who doesn’t want his film shut down by people not take the precautions seriously. He also acknowledged that there are people who’ve lost their livelihoods because of a pandemic that people are refusing to take seriously.  Should he have said pretty please…

Someone I met randomly told me that McConaughey grabbed her ass at a college party in Austin her freshman year (and some joke about how she’d have felt flattered if it hadn’t happened to so many). Based on her age, he would have been 36 at that party, so presumably cancel culture is a bit of a sword of Damocles for…

Exactly. It’s refreshing to see a gajillionaire movie star’s rant to not be caused by ego, but by a desire to keep food on the table for the grip, the boom guy, the effects person.

Yeah, maybe it’s just because I’m surrounded by so many people who don’t take the pandemic seriously, but I appreciated his rant.

He also seems to have zero understanding of what “constitutional” means which qualifies him for the highest offices available.

I fully approve of this Cruise rant—he’s not just talking about MI movies, he’s talking about this film setting an example that movies can be made in the time of COVID without being superspreaders IF AND ONLY IF the crew follows the safety protocols in place. It matters, he’s right to lose his shit.

He’s the Exec Producer on those films, so he’s legit the big boss on set, and not just as an actor.

Are you fucking kidding with this garbage Tom Cruise take? Look, the guy is a fucking corny weirdo, but considering how many rich ASSHOLES we’ve seen just pretending COVID is not a thing so that their precious little lives don’t get the least bit interrupted, it’s fucking REFRESHING to see a celeb take it seriously.…

Cruise the human being does suck, but Cruise the actor trying to do his job is like a series of those maximum effort moments in super hero movies distilled into human being form.  He takes that shit seriously.

It’s hard to like Cruise as a human being, but...he is right. Obviously, he’s an extremely rich man, so it’s difficult to support him when he talks about other people’s livelihoods, buuut... he is basically the driving force behind the MI franchise, so he is extremely involved, and the movie has been used as an…

Tom Cruise sucks but also I appreciate that he’s taking this seriously.

McConaughey...you know...he’s a thinker, outside the box kinda guy, just askin’ questions.

I’m 60, we were Kennedy Kansans who never encountered Black people in our day to day. I vividly remember my parents watching Charley on the TV, and commenting ”He’s a good Negro.” I can’t imagine what caused him to pursue success in that genre, but he busted ceilings all alone. Ballsy, handsome, plus the musical…

As someone who broke a color barrier in a field of confederate idolators, I can see how this might have felt critical for him to attend. It was not for himself, alone.