Sorry to break it to you, but James Bond has moved beyond that which Ian Fleming defined him as originally. He's a product of all the different screenwriters and directors who have been given input during the franchise's decades-long history. He's more like a Marvel/DC superhero than an ordinary character from a novel.

No, you seem to have my point backwards. Trans characters are usually played by cis actors, very rarely by trans actors. Cis characters are never played by trans actors, always by cis actors. So that leaves a very very small market open to trans actors, which you are now proposing we erode further by coming up with…

1. How can you tell the sexual orientation of the commenters here supporting the casting of Idris Elba?

I got gastro halfway through a 12-hour flight from Japan to Canada, and then my connecting one-hour domestic flight was delayed for four hours. Worst 11 hours of my life.

If he's such a powerful wizard you'd have thought he could magic himself up a goddamn nose.

Is this a serious question, or are you shit-stirring?

You're OK with Scots Bond, though? Or Blond Bond?

You might have a valid point if 99.99% of cis characters were played by trans actors. But they're not. Approximately 0% are. Trans actors can't get cast as anything other than trans characters, and now you want to start giving trans characters to cis actors too? Boo.

Ooh, Jack Davenport too. Yes please.

I read it more as he meant he was acting like a teenager. Drunk and fanboyish.

The majority? Not to the extent of matching the examples Tejaratchi used in his parody, no.

The latter, and/or they have the ability to laugh at themselves and the internet sites they frequent.

Nope.

So they like one thing that he's done, and ... dislike another?

Yeah, that happened to me yesterday. Hilariously, within 10 minutes, I was called an evil misandrist by a MRA, and a sexist tool of the patriarchy by a feminist (for daring to support the "Diversity Lounge" at PAX).

With regard to your point about being made to feel like everyone regards men as constantly seconds away from raping every woman in sight, I completely agree that that must be annoying and demoralizing. Which is why I hate it when people blame rape victims for dressing provocatively or drinking too much. It puts the…

The Romans? Really? They couldn't even hold out against a bunch of peacenik Middle Eastern guys.

Pretty sure we already established it wasn't thousands of years.

How about none? How about a chiasmic series of shifting fortunes, spanning centuries? How about accidents of geography?

LOL thousands