Hi. Look little crazy stan, Tilda could have simply READ or listened to what Cho was saying without calling her. And she chose to continue.

There are some serious mental gymnastics going on here, since Tilda sent the first email and clearly, she asked HOW to get in touch with Cho.

Yeah. I had the same thought. But, mine happened when I read the comments, and everyone was like “Team Tilda! Cho so mean!!” I felt like, wow, damn it.

Hmmm.

My understanding was this was BEFORE the movie came out. But, if that’s the case, what was Tilda trying to do? What are you saying here, that she was trying to manipulate Cho into not talking about whitewashing? Because that’s much worse than my idea.

Uh-huh. If so, then why bother talking to anyone? You just do your thing and don’t worry, like Jennifer Lawrence, don’t care that you hurt the rocks, so to speak.

Nonetheless, Tilda could have turned it down since the original character is Asian.

I was being wry. Hard to do on the internet, but I think it works.

I think Tilda was rude and insensitive. She just clothed it in pretty words. As I said, she has the ability to do better. Anyone can mess up.

LOL! Nah. I’m more depressed than anything about it. World after Trump.

Well, then, why approach her at all, really? Cho has said what she thinks very publicly. Why ask if you already know the answer?

No one is perfect. Good is a journey, not an intrinsic value. I believe we’re all allowed to mess up, say ‘well damn sorry’ and move on. That was really what the best case scenario there would have been.

That seems quite possible.

She shouldn’t have taken a role that should have gone to a person who is Asian. If she really did not know, and honestly, I .... really that seems ... if she really did not know and she found out afterward how hard is it to just accept you messed up?

Yes. Those receipts. I saw a guilty person trying to find a way to feel better.

Yeah, I don’t think she misrepresented the exchange at all. I think she added in her perspective of feeling weird about it and how it was a microaggression. But, her telling of events is the same, just told with a bit of anger and sarcasm attached.

Yeah, but it wasn’t just about input. And you know what? Swinton KNEW. Come on. If we look at it in the best possible light, as in “I’m in my dreary Scots castle and never see these things in public nor have I ever heard of whitewashing” a simple, “Well, shit, I fucked up and will do better next time” should do it.

I get that. Maybe it’s like this. When it happens, you think, “oookay.” Then, after, you get more and more pissed off?

It’s not up to Margaret Cho to alleviate Tilda Swinton’s white guilt. It’s not her job. She is not Representative Asian #4. If Swinton had mixed feelings, she has the money to avoid the role and choose something else. Once she chose to move forward and do the role, then who is benefiting from those guilt feelings,…

Yeah, it was still not okay to seek out an Asian person you don’t know to have the white person guilt convo, and that is really how it looks to me. She joked about it afterward, but the feelings of having to hear/witness/be asked to be in that conversation must have been maddening.