I’m sorry, but to me this just seems like we are stereotyping different races saying they have to sound black, or sound asian etc. I can see it in specifically written characters like Apu who is meant to speak with the Indian Accent but in the Case of Cleveland, he has a fairly non human high pitched whiny voice...…

Yeah. I’ve argued this a lot over the past few weeks. No amount of change or positive forward progress is enough for these people. Jenna was cringey years back, but she apologized and recognized that and changed LONG before all of this. She didn’t deserve to be harassed.

First of all, Jenna Marbles didn’t do blackface. She had a dark tan when she worked in a tanning shop. Tacky? Yes. Blackface? No. She had that tan in every video at the time.

“Cancel Culture = I don’t like this person/thing anymore.”

Shockingly (or perhaps not), Penn Badgley had a really good comment re: cancel culture recently in the LA Times. I think he does an excellent job connecting what culturally we seem to forget every time some new person/celeb gets cancelled: that the problem isn’t just at an individual level, so unless the problem gets…

“Cancel culture isn’t real” says the website that cancels everybody who isn’t 100% woke.

Sure., but I don’t want to speculate about how much is nature vs. nurture when it comes to women’s sexual desire. Like, maybe we grew up with Beauty and the Beast so now some of us fantasize about being kidnapped or maybe B&tB taps into something deep and primal in our lizard brains. I really don’t know, but I think…

Words and their meanings and using them correctly is important to me and it should be important to you too. Improper language hurts your cause.

I know this is just a news piece - however is society really going to start pushing for resignations over family issues and infidelity? - this seems like a step too far. Shady, but not abuse. 

To what degree am I personally supposed to care if someone who works on a video game I’ll probably buy cheats on his wife? What’s the fundamental difference in a person’s “good” score between infidelity vs they hit a parked car and don’t leave a note? Under-report income on their taxes?

“Ariana Grande supposedly sent food and coffee to voters waiting in line during Kentucky’s truly fucked (and suppressed) election.”

With all due sympathy for people who’ve experienced prejudice or trauma, I think we need a discussion about how far it’s appropriate to go in the name of not triggering people.

There’s comfort in that world, where even Victor’s comparably “difficult” parents are supportive of gay people if not wild about the idea of having a gay son, but it means Love, Victor has nothing to add to existing television conversations around any of the topics it introduces up-front.

Practically ever review I have read complains that “Love Simon” and maybe this show too has a too-easy coming out for the gay kid. But it’s not 1980 any more, and there really are kids who come out without suffering homophobic parents or gay-bashing peers. We have come a long way from when I was that age and the only…

I genuinely hate how shitty the queer community can be towards queer cinema. Because shows like Love, Victor and Looking fail to represent every inch of the LGBT spectrum, they’re considered a moral failing. With so few queer stories, the ones that make it to air have to represent everyone equally, apparently.

That’s one aspect of it. The most recent historical manifestation in a sense. But this attitude and the discrimination tied to it has existed long before the Portuguese or the British came. 

“Who cares? Getting upset over this, a thing that hasn’t even happened, it’s something you’re imagining might happen at some point”

To be fair, while colonialism certainly intensified the allure of paleness, colorism already existed in many of these cultures because of its connection with class for the exact same reason it did among white people. Being pale was a signal that unlike the darker folk, you could afford to pay to have others do your…

Besides the obvious assholery of it, how is this a thing that sells in a world as tan-crazy as ours?

Yeah... it’s sorta complicated. On the one hand, people do legitimately use these products for blemish/spot treatment (old acne scars, liver marks, etc.) and they should have the right to do that if they want.  On the other, people do misuse it for “fairness” purposes.  On the third hand, does discontinuing a face…