I don’t really disagree with any of your points beyond attributing this stuff to Oasis particularly (and also that it’s shit; great tunes, many of ‘em). Speaking from an American perspective:

Which was such a dumb choice because that's not at all what the comic is like. Yea it has dark undertones but it's also funny and never gets too bogged down in the dark implications of the premise.

I also liked President Keith David deciding whether to get involved depending on if the states voted for him.

successful without shaking her butt or dressing half naked. props to you lorde, you deserve the success. Xx – kyndreyahx, dallas, United States, January 2015

I think the problem that Mackie was trying to get at (even if it was somewhat jumbled in his response) is *why* do you and others read these characters as “gay” even when the creators say that wasn’t the intention?

You’re free to interpret anything you want but don’t keep challenging the actors, writers and directors to admit that your interpretation is canon.

What a ridiculous argument to make. People don’t get to change whatever facet of pop culture they like to suit their preferences*. Does this mean Hamlet and Horatio are gay because it seems to me that he’s way more interested in spending time with his servant buddy than Ophelia? Or that Princess Leia isn’t actually…

Two things can be true:

He probably could’ve phrased it better, but I agree with the underlying sentiment 100%. It’s absurd that every male friendship gets distorted into a potential gay relationship, even when there’s no evidence beyond the relationship being just a male friendship. Happens with female friendships, too (see, e.g.,…

Good news. All I have to do is wait 10 minutes for the next outrage to see if that one is more interesting. 

Sorry, I changed the frequency on this shit after Ellie Kemper. Go cry wolf somewhere else.

I feel like our cultural assessment of Friday landed pretty firmly in the so-bad-it’s-good column. I mean the whole moment culminated in the Colbert/Fallon duet, which was one of the most unabashedly joyous events ever broadcast on television. These new songs are fine but Friday will bang forever.

Frankly she quit acting after Sophie’s Choice when she realized all you had to do to fool Academy voters was employ an outrageous accent.

The Root: *writes something snarky and provocative over an obscure issue*

I’m a little uncomfortable with calling latinx people “white” even if when caucasian. I’m similarly uncomfortable with calling Jews “white.” I think the test is if Orville down in Alabama with his dirty Klan robes thinks you’re white. If you’re a minority on somebody’s liquidation list, even if you’re way down it, I…

I have experience with insults, that appears to be the relevant experience here. I’m opposed to people denigrating others based on their racial mixture or skin color, I think that’s the relevant experience here. Insulting Alexandra Shipp by basically calling her an Uncle Tom and aggressively bullying her, and here…

But in the film, Vanessa is played by white-passing Mexican actor Melissa Barrera.

What lesson will Warner Brothers take from this other than “Movies with diverse casts won’t make as much money as we expect and the online mob will come for them anyway so why bother?”

I was a little surprised there weren’t more darker-skinned actors, I was also suprised there were basically no asian people. It is possible that John Chu ran into the vicious circle issue with finding darker-skinned actors: a significant percentage haven’t been given enough chances to develop because nobody is casting…

The Root is tougher on Ellie Kemper and In The Heights than it is on Kamala Harris and Joe Biden.