One of the things I hated about the Harry Potter movies was that bizarre bit of characterization they added where Umbridge hates PDA.

What was the timeline on the December rape vs. the outcry? I can't remember but I feel like there was a delay, so I'd call it progress to some extent if there's an immediate backlash this time around. Maybe I'm remembering wrong.

I hope you're not implying that whoever came up with "R-Patz" doesn't deserve to be strangled.

Has anyone ever been cast as a superhero without loud people thinking it was a terrible idea?

I can't wait for the day it's no longer fashionable to be this hateful but there's still an indelible record of these assholes saying this stuff. It's like when Strom Thurmond, may he rot in hell, was getting older and no matter how much people tried to spin him as some kind of dignified elder statesman, there was…

Jesus Christ, British people are terrible.

It seems like it'd be easy to physically stop eating cupcakes; those little motherfuckers are just more trouble than they're worth. They're the oranges of baked goods.

Further nitpick: "Raylan" is in fact a full novel.

Wow, they got the one person less consequential than the Royal Family to respond to the birth. Well-played.

I totally believe that. Despite having no experience with the kind of people he wrote about, I always found it totally believable that that was the way they talked. He found the lyrical in the mundane and he made it look easy.

"Karen Sisco" was the "Firefly" of crime shows. I was so happy when she showed up (in anti-lawyer camo, of course) on "Justified."

I'm pretty sure "Girls" is safe, though.

I really admire the straightforwardness of that title. I look forward to Meth Teacher, Homosexual Singing School and Sex Vampires.

Still struggling with the hyperbole thing, I see. Will Smith is not the only black actor in existence, but he, along with Washington, is one of the only black actors who has enough leverage that he gets non-race-specific roles.

Freeman is a character actor, not an A-list star, and Washington, at this stage in his career, is veering in the same direction.

To which those same people would respond "BUT TYLER PERRY!" (If, for whatever reason, you're not a fan of the one director who's built up clout making movies for black people, I guess you're SOL.)

And then there's the fact that unless you're Will Smith, if you're a black actor you're probably not getting any roles not specifically written for black people, and, as in the above examples, there are almost no meaty roles fitting that criterion that aren't non-fictional characters.

Am I gay now?

So between the success of this, "Fruitvale Station" and "42" this year alone, can we finally move on from "There aren't more movies about black people because they're not profitable?"
(Spoiler: Sigh, probably not.)

"HAW HAW HAW I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT HYPERBOLE IS AND YOU GOT ALL DEFENSIVE ABOUT IT AND ALSO NATIONAL SYG DATA CONTRADICTS WHAT I'M SAYING UR GAY."