“Bitching about” entertainment is their job, rather than creating it.

Yeah but you insist on writing your comments in English, so who’s the real microaggressor here then, huh?

Because calls for diversity do not include, in fact, they seek to exclude, casting non-white actors in non-heroic roles.

I have always thought that diversity in casting will be when default stops being white

Since you’re someone who had to look at it from “the other side” in an academic(?) context...

Interestingly this list of countries and their abortion restrictions shows NONE where the ONLY exception to prohibition is “rape/incest”. (Unless I missed one, haha.)

Republican women generally favor legal abortion in the case of rape or incest *and themselves but do not favor abortion generally.

Trump can’t be pleased with this anti-ketchup-on-meat analogy though? Ha ha, who are we kidding, as if he even knows this woman’s name.

I think she’s just using sex as a crotch.

Trump makes no concerted effort to do anything. Everything that looks “Trump directed” is actually “Trump pre-emptive” in that they imagine how Trump would react and try to do whatever will make him not single them out for mob destruction.

Weak.

The fact that Tolkien’s dwarves mostly cared about mining & hoarding gold & gems. Pretty much no different than Rowling’s Goblins.

No I did in fact mean to ask what is questionable as in “potentially objectionable” about what Tolkien said about the dwarves. This is one of the rare occasions where Tolkien himself agrees that the parallel exists (IYR he normally says pish paw Mordor is not Germany and the War of the Ring is not WW1 etc).

I’ll agree it’s not the most progressive depiction of short people in film.

I always wondered, did Disney get this along with Star Wars, just asking?

“I didn’t intend it, but when you’ve got these people on your hands, you’ve got to make them different, haven’t you?” said Tolkien during the 1971 interview. “The dwarves of course are quite obviously, wouldn’t you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic, obviously, constructed to…

Burnt toast with Silmarillion. 

LOTR Dwarves are cool because really they are Dwellerdwillerdurinduraldim who Dwelt (sic) in Dwemmdwennerdell until Dwalin Son of Dwallim dwelved too dweedly and so the (Dw)Race of Dwawesomes dwindled.

I can’t wait to hear all the new songs like “Whistle While You Protest For Fair Labor Practices”...

“The preferred term is CONJOINED cats...”