I think a takeaway from Singal’s writing, whether it is his point or not, is that there is a spectrum even to those who feel they may be trans and that in the liberal’s world increasing desire to be woke and/or not accused of being transphobic, people are not asking children serious questions about this. Someone can…

We need our writers to stop misrepresenting things. The movie was shot before any of this stuff happened and he’s one person on a film that probably employed two to three hundred plus people when its all said and done. I will be absolutely shocked when a big film director hires him for new work. Could he get roles in…

I do hope that you aren’t a cultural relativist in light of this view.

This comment section.

Its shit like this that makes it absolutely untenable to be a conservative in modern American politics. I have profound problems with what vocal minorities of minorities (tbc I’m not referring to demographic minorities but political group minorities) are doing to our liberal political world right now, precisely…

Tiffany has been annointed. She’s going to have to go seriously off the rails to lose her crown. Unfortunately the us vs them world engendered by the internet makes it impossible for someone to just be a person. Jezebel exists to raise people up or bury them. But thats because they serve the mob.

Thats the problem! No one can do this anymore. You’re either on a pedestal or your heads on a spike. When oh when will our society come back to earth??

Couldn’t agree more. The thing is it isn’t just the Root. There are a lot of people in the liberal media landscape who I really admire who have fawned over her. And its kind of mindfucked me because I respect them, so I’ve asked myself what am I missing? I watched more of her stuff, caught her standup, etc, and I…

They didn’t side with the accuser because in the world of identity politics black men are the most oppressed of all. We can agree that black men may indeed be most oppressed, but the problems start when you let generalizations inform your responses to specific incidents. I’m liberal but we stereotype as much as…

It’s not blaming the woman. It’s attempting to turn something awful into a lesson for others because all of us have the desire to control our environments even though we can’t. No one knows what would happen, but it feels better to think you’ve done your best with what was within your control.

Thank you for saying this. Was my exact response. Sizism is dumb to begin with but bring it somewhere else today

To start: I absolutely have no qualm with your wanting to see this movie or any movie for those reasons. I am responding to you because you expressed what you did and its currently the top comment. Further I think most should be able to agree that there is nothing wrong with a movie targetting and being for a specific…

The defending and paranoia going on here is exposing a disconcerting amount of hypocrisy. Ask yourself if it was a white guy, would you be defending him? You know the answer. It’s not like MSNBC can’t find another black woman to fill her space.

Thank you. So many of the objections throw at romcoms where the man is the main lead or co-lead are simply being thrown because they’re written from the man’s perspective. A female simplified into a one note prize? Well lets look at every female led romcom that has a one note dude who’s either mcdreamy (in which case…

I don’t want to throw a grenade into this, but it is not uncommon for women to play/perform a “hard to get” version of themselves. Now there are two reasons that women would do this. One supports a patriarchal vision of society that demands women cannot enjoy sex and must pretend to act like they’re less sexual than…

Yes, but you’ve done a straw man. That is by no means the trade off. Also, anyone who says health care is a human right...do you mean health care as we understand it in the US? Is it basic health care where some things aren’t covered? Who pays for the doctors? Who pays to train the doctors?

Alright this makes sense. I mean again I don’t really find fault in providing care for those already here. I just worry about the long term effects and the ability for it to be exploited. I’m for supplemental income as well but again certain “welfare” needs to be moderated and controlled up to a point.

Honestly can someone elaborate on this “they are paying taxes” thing. I may be stupid but I’m not for the affect. How would an undocumented immigrant get a position where they would be taxed, when you need to provide social security numbers for base level jobs?

Well yes, but what happens if the number of people who are in that position vastly increases. Most undocumented immigrants are working, but few are raking in middle class or above levels of income.

How many undocumented immigrants are working in traditional jobs where they need to provide identification numbers and social security numbers? I’m genuinely asking. “Employment” does not mean taxes. People pay individuals off the books in most of the jobs occupied by undocumented immigrants as I understood it. If the…