The fact that Trump’s business failings neither prevented him from accessing a phenomenal amount of wealth, nor from attaining the presidency, should demonstrate that the idea of a “successful businessman” is completely divorced from competence at actual business.

The idea of a “successful businessman” at all is…

And I suppose the attacks against Leslie Jones aren’t misogynistic because they would’ve been aimed at a man too if it wasn’t her, specifically, who was in the movie?

You’re a hypocrite, and apparently with terrible taste in movies which - on the face of it - would rank his opinion on this blog of less value than my mot…

Personally, I think Ghostbusters II gets an unfairly bad rap. (It’s fun, Peter MacNicol rules, and has there been a more prescient or useful metaphor for the internet than a toxic “mood slime” feeding off negativity?) Yet even as one of its most ardent defenders, I’d still say Ghostbusters II proves Reitman was right…

That’s not a hot-take, its a childish and misogynistic attack on a milque-toast Internet-averse woman, that with very little alteration is probably indistinguishable from a tweet Leslie Jones might receive.

Not my mother’s cup of tea, you mean. Because she’s the one who thinks its “terrible” and “just not funny”.

But I guess it being genuinely “not that bad” makes her a stupid woman who should shut up and not protest so much...

I may have stumbled on the problem here.
Like many many people, I’ve avoided most Adam Sandler movies, as well as the Lone Ranger, etc, etc.

My barometer for watching movies might thus be artificially high when my canon of movies contains the original Ghostbusters movies, but doesn’t contain Jack and Jill to lower my…

“Fine” movie?
My mum, who isn’t exactly a super-fan of the originals and has absolutely no knowledge of or stake in the Internet outrage surrounding it described it as “terrible” and “just not funny” when she caught it on the TV. Her expectations were dialed into “dumb popcorn movie to throw on just to kill some time”,…

Oh, it’s certainly a shibboleth for shitheals; but my point still stands. There’s no mechanism in place to stop people talking a good game online to get plaudits and kudos, and then behaving disingenuously in their daily lives.

Nope, virtue signalling in this context means putting forward socially aware talking points; actually abiding by the principles behind these talking points IRL isn’t required to virtue signal.

Is that music theme “escape the premises”?  ‘cause I’m pretty sure that’s what I use for the intro for my Youtube channel =/

Pearls before swine.

Pfft, who’s got the time or inclination to adapt to the abomination that is the kinjapocalypse?

Starting with a HHGTTG reference automatically gets him into my good books.

I don’t think it’s helpful to go “the answer is really simple” and then suggest something that people consistently overestimate their capacity for, that is couched in a load of pseudoscientific mumbo-jumbo that pick-up artists take as gospel, and that at the extreme end of the empathy spectrum whole swathes of people…

I think it says that you’ve met human women and understand how they respond to non-movie-stars that look like Michael Cera and act like Scott Pilgrim.

Eh, I think you can find the cheesy space-opera nonsense-theology entertaining (“pretty cool”) in a half-baked retro sci-fi way, and still find the praxis of the organisation noxious.

If we’re discussing the text, we have to discuss it as written. It’s the job of the programme to show us what it wants us to see; and it’s a failure in the writing if it shows us stuff which accidentally contradicts or undermines what it’s trying to say.

For example, if it wants us to hold Bojack responsible for his…

I already covered the fact that “Bojack’s alienated his support network” is something he is culpable for: But it isn’t something this season makes use of, it’s something we’ve got to read into the narrative despite the text not only ignoring this throughout the season, but actively pulling the narrative away from this…

I think this is a problem with the writing, TBH. They needed to make Bojack do the assault to make their point; but it’s not something they’ve established in the previous seasons, and its uncharacteristically lazy of the show to conflate being a very shitty person in various ways with being physically violent.

So they…

I think my issue with it is that it was hard to pin this last disaster on Bojack - I might’ve missed a few things (not gotten around to a second viewing):

But IIRC it’s Princess Caroline who pressures Bojack into taking part in her passion project (Philbert) knowing its an “iron clad contract with no escape”, and then…