*Artists can push boundaries in many ways. Gender of protagonist is just one, and hardly the most artistically profound.
*I said lead characters. Spielberg's films have many strong supporting female characters.
*"That would tell me something about you" (which you use twice in one post) can't be a knee-jerk answer to…

1) This was an adaptation of a book and the characters were kept pretty much as is EXCEPT that the kids' genders were reversed to make the older, more capable sibling female.

Are you then going to tell novelists what books to write, musicians what songs to write, sculptors what subjects to sculpt? I'm a writer, but I've never written a lead gay character. Does that make me a bad person?

Sort of like the way the reality TV genre morphed into political espionage genre this year.

For her next project, she'll fellate Moby-Dick.

This sounds really good.

Excuse me, those were hominids. I think you owe an apology to the Hominid-American community.

How Goes Your Dating?

I'm afraid I did. Twelve years later, we're married with two kids.

I used to frequent a Starbucks near my apartment only because a cute, voluptuous barista would give me free coffee every time I went (and often take her break to sit and chat with me). And, in odd synchronicity with another thread here, she was an astrophysics student.

Nope. But I'm not a single man—married for ten years.

That makes no sense. How would he know if it's especially bad if he had no other experience to compare it with?

Agreed.

Very true, as I've said elsewhere.

He didn't "destroy an old woman's life." He temporarily disrupted her life with the aim of not only getting money for himself but also for the larger group of old ladies. (She never even shared the critical info with them and was being manipulated by HHM.) Yes, the means were shady, but the result was good for…

Right, the actor playing Nacho's father doesn't get much screen time, but he was excellent in this episode.

Actually, it came out in 1954.

Money. Independence.

It was.

But that would have been legal advice, which he's not allowed to do.