I think she was going for a “don’t wait for permission, go out there and make your art!” sentiment, but wasn’t very articulate about it.

Kristen Stewart was addressing a different issue (sexism) and was kind of set up by Variety. They’ve since apologized.

I think Kransinski is right. I think the issue is that studios don’t greenlight movies with diverse leads, or written/directed by diverse filmmakers and then the Oscars reflect that.

And when does Planned Parenthood sue Carly for libel? She’s been publicly spreading information she knows is false about them for months.

“And, largely, their work confirms that when men are allowed to make movies, they make movies about men.”

Bernie doesn’t really help her in the national election. I think she’ll go with Julian Castro or if something scandalous turns up in his past, then Cory Booker.

While I’m sure Hillary’s people weren’t expecting the Trupm phenomenon and that so many people would actually watch the Republican debates, her safe debate schedule strategy will hurt her in the end. The Republican debates, scheduled when people will watch, are hours on end of people bashing Obama and Hillary with no…

Fun list, but if it’s such hard work you could of course just write articles about Bernie instead?

Ant-Man! The Scott Lang version. Also an off-beat P.I. at the moment. Although Hawkeye is a better guess.

Doesn’t foreign language require one to look outside one’s national boundary? Yes, Spanish speakers are found in large numbers within our national borders (and lots of other languages, too) but every Spanish class I had had us learn about Spain and Latin America a bit (and we learned Spanish as spoken in Spain not in…

Ultimate Spider-Man, Alias, Daredevil, revitalized the Avengers (along with Millar, I suppose), gave us Miles Morales, is fantastic with dialogue, great with characterization, can put out lots of books that sell well in a month...

That explains the name change! Great band. Coming to the USA this week.

Right, but if she now sentences someone else who is 18 to prison time, having admitted that prison = daily rape, isn’t she sentencing them to cruel and usual punishment? Which she is not allowed to do. So she now can’t sentence anyone to prison time. (I know that won’t happen, but if the judge is admitting she’s…

White people aren’t Latino? Since when?

Explainer to the author: While “it’s really not that cool when white people assume that he is Latino” it’s also really not that cool when you assume Latinos aren’t white. It’s an ethnicity not a race (and yes, race is a social construct but creating a new Latino race, doesn’t help things.)

And also, white people from Latino countries consider themselves white, unlike the author of the article who keeps referring to Latinos as non-white. Black Brazilians, Asian Peruvians, are of course not white, but still Latino, as Latinos come in all races. It’s a blanket term for a group of nationalities but always…

Well, according to the writer of the article they’re not counted as Latino for being white. As the author constantly calls Latino non-whites and differentiates them from whites. Latinos come in all colors as it’s an ethnicity not a race.

Latino is kind of a subset, but also includes Brazilians... so they’re outside the subset. A subset plus?

Day of the Dead is the day after Halloween (as you probably know) so you can still wear your costume on the 31st. What are you going as? I need ideas!

Good point. Not crazy about the public shaming in any case, but yes, maybe I gave him more sympathy than he deserves.