I have no insight on this incident, but Minaj did just rip to shreds some meager internet music blogger whose only issue was that she hoped Minaj would start chewing on some deeper lyrics. It wasn’t just shade it was straight up aggression. Can you imagine if some popular white dude did the same shit? It’d be front…

Yup. Its amazing Gawkerites continue to defend the editorial shitbags that turned this situation into what it is. Jezebel talks about revenge porn, yet is happy to defend the publishing of a celebrity’s, who had fuck all to do with anything, sex tape because he’s what a man? Who is vaguely meh? The rage that would…

Why do you hate Hulk Hogan? Would you hate a woman who won a revenge porn suit? There is nothing remotely defensible about how Gawker acted in that situation. That it ended as it did does not exempt how it started. 

All the coverage you guys do of your “industry” tends to betray as many negative things about you as anyone within your crosshairs. Yeah, Goldberg is a cynical schmuck. But he’s the cynical schmuck who proves that a very similar model of “new media” to yours is largely based on exploiting your readerships yearning for…

I mean this guy kind of did that right? Did he then owe it to his employees to tell them? Maybe he did. I just think its a bit weird how guys come to that and then become the person at the front of the march yelling loudest. I would be more deferential. And this dude is talking about some pretty next level stuff. He…

If you’ve read Baldwin, you may have come across the idea that the white folk you’re referring to specifically have a need for an underclass.

Not gonna lie a friend of mine became a bit of a SJW twitter type in the wake of Trumps election, after having been more or less a libertarian for his whole life. We talked about it personally and his basic point was “how can you not do something now”. But his whole online thing is very extra. So a part of me has been…

Killer Mike, Susan Saradon, Colin Kaepernick, and all the fucknuts of America, THANK YOU YOU DUMB FUCKS

I agree with you, but would your stance be the same if the person was a man? Say someone on about the same level as Spacey (Wright wasn’t exactly on that level when this show was first shooting)? And if the victims were women?

It doesn’t just seem that way. It is that way. And it’s because people are so ashamed at themselves, that they must direct that outwards. 

Yes, because to make it you don’t break the system. You try to work within it. That is literally the entirety of life. There’s a decent article in the NYT from a Mr. Gessen talking about life in Russia and how people do just go about their lives, while the leadership of the country go on doing despicable things. That…

That said, I’m sure she knew. Everyone knew. Everyone knows. Spacey wasn’t hiding this shit from anyone. It was not “hush hush”. The fact that he preyed on men would have also, maybe justifiably, given people the sense that they could handle themselves. He was not overpowering anyone, in a literal sense.

Well said. Many gay male actors continue to be closeted to the public, even if the movie industry knows, because of how it could affect their work. This role absolutely wouldn’t go to a trans actor if this conversation hadn’t gone public. Though part of me suspects that this film will be canned and it will eventually…

Honestly these movies just aren’t going to get made anymore. That’s going to be the transition point. No way a movie by Rupert Sanders is winning a fucking academy award, so its an odd hill for all parties because they will conceivably want this to make money. The only way it would make money would be with liberal…

I agree with you and think the OPs binary vision of life is reductionist, that said I also think a large majority of the American left has got caught up in policing thoughts and microaggressions, and more or less abdicated any actual influence in politics. It’s precisely people who would be extremely angry about this…

Dude people are on the internet to rage and purge and find brief catharsis and actually convincing someone of anything is not in the wheelhouse anymore. Its super depressing because real life has just become the internet. 

Scarlett Johannson is a unique case because she’s defended Woody Allen (twitter won’t hear that), she whitewashed a Japanese role, and honestly I’m forgetting the last bit. Activist twitter hates her.

I have never seen a show decline quite like Westworld did. The only way they could get the season remotely on the rails was backending about a hundred, fifteen to whole episode length monologues that literally explain everything anyone with a brain already deduced and introducing crap from left field and acting like…

I’m sorry for whatever you’ve gone through. I know it’s hard to do the work and approach things on a case by case basis. Zadie Smith’s piece here covers Dana Schultz’s work on Emmett Till. https://harpers.org/archive/2017/07/getting-in-and-out/

This is like the sequels they used to make in the 70s. You have no idea why it exists and most of the cast probably doesn’t either, but hey its a paycheck so why ask questions. Its like Jaws 2 or The Sting 2.