Man, I need to find that actress interview in which she related how she signed up for a film in her early days, and the director inserted a nude scene into the script from out of nowhere. And of course she felt pressured to do it (but I don't think she did? I hope).

Exactly. And when the sexism or racism is blatant it's easy to condemn it, but anything more subtle and we're buried in rationalisations.

There are two levels to any kind of oppressive dynamic: the inter-personal which covers personal biases displayed by individuals; and the systemic which is structural, on an institutional level, and works on a larger scale than any one individual person.

I know, because sexism only exists in Hollywood. Tell a friend.

Interesting. I've been on AV Club since the early 2000s, mostly as a lurker, and I don't know that I would describe it as being particularly progressive. It's a mixed bag with the defining difference being that persons more or less disagree without everything going down in flames. But there is heavy rationalisation of…

Right. Whew. I was beginning to wonder here. Isn't it also obvious that having to play that game has in-built expiration point when physically she can no longer embody this sexist ideal, the petering off of roles, the plastic surgery (which they then get ridiculed for) etc.

From my perspective, you and the writer share the same sentiment. The difference is that author thinks its shitty that the sexist roles are a part of the Hollywood Game, which seems like a fairly uncontroversial position to take, but the AV Club comment section is weird, at times.

Naturally. Because we all do everything of our own 100% free will, all things being equal (as they usually are!), and we never have to compromise in our career paths in order to achieve our goals. We never feel pressured, or steered into certain directions because of external factors. I mean, it isn't as if the…

It always works on me tho. It's the main reason I end up at so many art exhibition openings: the free alcohol, esp those yummy coconut water + rum mixes, depending on the sponsor.

Can't you let the white people have anything? Spoilsport.

But then that would mean assuming that mostly white means automatically means mostly racist, which I thought wasn't a true take on the honest, average, white American…

She and Affleck were cast in "Focus". He dropped out first then afterwards she skipped and Will Smith joined. There are different accounts on whether she left the project before or after Will Smith joined. Some sources like Hollywood Reporter state she exited before. Variety's version is that she left after Smith…

Goddamnit….that entire fucking movie. WTF.

Was it the nuclear waste that turned him Mongolian?

Honestly

None of the better young fantasy titles are being adapted at all and it's a curious thing. Outside of that bungled Susan Cooper adaptation, I can't think of any attempts to tap into any notable series. (Narnia is an oft mined property. Not really counting it.) They all took a sharp left into the tired dystopian SF…

Is he really that old? That story sounded like a scene from "Shane".

Weird. Those weren't the ones on "Black Twitter" — mostly cultural in jokes. And they weren't very R-rated either so I wondered what this AVC article referred to…eh.

It's the one element that's made me sort of tempted to read it myself.

Is it unpopular? At the height of its popularity I remember quite a few persons that dismissed her as little more than a remixer who pulls from superior writers lika Diana Wynne Jones. And her style gets panned often. It's just that she got so many kids to read and started a wave that helped to expand the market for a…