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Hmmm, yes, old things were new back when they weren’t old. This is good Kinja.

And they try to say men don't hate us. And they try to say we have equality now.

I keep having to remind myself this isn’t really the AV Club anymore.

Were you on the set? How do you know it was just someone getting yelled at for fucking up? How do you know that Brown, and others, weren’t being singled out on account of their gender?

She’s quit the show. She hasn’t been fired.

‘They’ and ‘their’ pronouns do seem to be the safer bet overall, and communicate the same information as ‘she’ and ‘her’. I’m not sure why anyone is bothered by the former.

I don’t want there to be any salacious details about the filming of Stranger Things, but why would Peyton Brown make this up? Remember, she’s quitting the show out of her own volition. She hasn’t been fired.

Do you understand the power dynamics being described here? She’s 14 years old and they’re adults with a lot of power over her.

“They” is neutral terminology.

News: Artists focused on children need a more critical look.

More news: Societies focused on adult art that focuses on children need a more critical look.

I like this show. I have never been the slightest bit comfortable with anything else surrounding it, particularly the way those real children are wielded throughout…

Yeah, this isn’t surprising at all.

Sadie Sink was all of 14 when she said that. She’s just starting her career. You think a 14 year old actor, who wants to keep working, is going to have the fortitude and the perspective to take a public stand on bad behavior from the adults who employ her? C’mon, man. What was she supposed to say? “I hated it and they…

For the record, she’s a child. There’s a reason for things like age of consent laws, we don’t as a society think a child is capable of understanding their own best interests. Adults employing children have a duty of care and even taking the child’s own statement into account, they crossed a line. It’s actually…

The Mail is owned by a different set of scumbags - the Rothermeres; a bunch of tax-dodging xenophobes with a long history of sucking up to fascists.

Yes, when the actor is a child, I do expect them to work around things that freak her out in that way. Especially these days.

A child actor with a small part on a Netflix show does not get paid millions, and it was not in the script, which is why she was so freaked out at first. In the end, she was fine with it, so no harm, no foul.

Yeah, I thought that was important and confused why the Variety and AV Club article don’t include it.

Daily Mail gonna Daily Mail.

Actually, they forced a young girl to have her very first kiss on camera BECAUSE of her strong objections and her discomfort with it. They actually told her that they’d just been joking about her having to do an unscripted kiss, but because she reacted so negatively to the idea that they therefore HAD to do it,…