Sorry, I don’t know what that means.

And that he’s a little blonde boy?

But was it? I mean, who really even thinks about this movie since 1992—much less regard it as an influence to someone’s feelings about trans people? I have never heard anyone cite “Silence of the Lambs” as being influential in how they perceive trans people. Or cannibals, for that matter.

I honestly never thought of Buffalo Bill as being trans—I thought of him as a killer with a particular fetish. So as far as I’m concerned, trans people can relax...the movie’s diabolical plan to make me fear trans people did not work.

What minorities were the targets of an attack in that comment?

It’s not a strawman--it’s you.

Holy shit...did you forget to end your comment with /s, or is that shit for real?

If she held those beliefs and discussed them with her friends and family, there wouldn’t be an issue. But she insisted on stating her extremely controversial and antagonizing opinions on multiple public forums even after being instructed not to by her employer.

It’s a compilation of dozens of books written centuries apart, including myths, histories (not necessarily reliable, but histories weren’t back then), poetry, biography (however exaggerated) and letters.

Nah, people have known about autism since “St. Elsewhere.”

There will never be a generation that doesn’t view any previous generation as being “problematic.” And guess what? That means you will eventually be viewed that way as well.

I doubt that could have worked—Charles still would have been incredibly jealous and resentful of Diana’s popularity and effectiveness, while still being obsessed with seeing himself as a pitiable romantic victim instead of a spineless wimp who couldn’t stand up to his family in order to marry the woman he really…

I agree, but I’d go a step farther and say that they blew it with every character’s backstory. This story lives or dies because of how you relate to the characters—good or bad. Even the “vallain” characters are written in a way that even though you know that what they are doing is horrible, you understand why they…

That’s so funny that you say that, because for me the exact opposite is true. I read The Stand in my late teens and could not put it down. To this day, it’s one of my favorites. I’ve picked up and tried to read The Gunslinger/Dark Tower books many times and have yet to get through a single one of them.

Groundbreaking performances was not the point I was trying to get to, exactly. If I were doing that I could have gone back much further. I was trying to say that there was nothing about the portrayals in those examples that seemed inauthentic or cliché or exploitative or negative in any way. They were affecting…

In a fictional world where two characters have the ability to enter the dreams of other people to hold conversations and a character can survive being stabbed in the neck, why is it so problematic that someone who is deaf/mute can talk in a dream sequence? If I were to try and make logical sense out of fictional dream…

I think that there is a level of basic common sense that should have made the precautions and protective behavior inarguable from the earliest days of the pandemic. But the maniacs who are fighting against doing the simplest things to keep themselves and their family/friends even slightly more safe from a disease that…

Given the fact that the character is expected to be able to hear and speak with Mother Abigail, it wouldn’t surprise me if no deaf actors were auditioned for the role.

I didn’t issue you an order. I didn’t insist that you agree with her point of view. I told you what I did and the benefit I got from it—had I known that you would look at it as an insult (which would never have occurred to me, or most other people, imo), I wouldn’t have said anything. I’m not an asshole for trying to…

BTW, thank you for having this discussion with me...it’s very helpful and I am grateful.