Her interpreting casting brown actress as ‘taking shots at the original’ is so unnecessarily antagonistic. Why does ‘honoring the original’ automatically mean preserving its whiteness?

I felt the same way. But charmed appealed to me when I was a tween. I suspect that’s the same audience they’re looking for now, and it’s just not for me.

What’s odd about all of this is:

Megan writes the reboot will be “a shadow of its former self.” The fans of the old show are up in arms. How are people so upset about a show they’ve never seen? And like you said, at least the reboot is diverse, where the original was lily-white (and if the old cast was brought back for the reboot, they’d rightly be…

...so you’re telling me this whole movie is going to be a Jacob’s Ladder-type scenario?

The note was meh to me, but Dash was ok with it. He didn’t really like her public apology because he said she seemed to be trying to make it about her. The principal is wonderful, and so were the staff members we met with. Before anything was done, the first thing they said to Dash was that he was right and the…

It became bigger than he expected, and with the year he’s had—moving to another state, my husband’s cancer diagnosis, Hurricane Harvey and being evacuated by boat, staying in the shelter after, and having to move and change schools because we lost everything and his school flooded—I wanted to listen to him and what he…

“The Neighborhood” is basically a conservatives idea of reality, in which black people are racist against white people even though said white people are just the NICEST PEOPLE EVER.

Then we would never spend money in America at all.

These are teens, leave them alone.

All’s fair in love and basketball.

Portrait of Teenage Weariness.

And its not just lack of media representation for the students of color.That’s bad enough. The media also needs to take some responsibility for uplifting the Parkland students and constantly referring to them as brave and smart, while at the same time vilifying BLM, for basically saying the same thing.

I never wanted to meet him! I just wanted a picture! YOU CAN’T DISAPPOINT A PICTURE!

People of color in this country, in this culture, tend to not matter as much as those who are white; that is the truth of America. In the Black Lives Matter movement, young black people have been shouting from the rooftops until their voices are raw and hoarse, and America hasn’t listened. But now that it’s white kids…

I knew that someone was going to point that out. ;)

I think C.Hem is the most likely of the original Avengers to stick around since Marvel sort of just figured out how to make that character and his movies work, but even if he doesn’t, letting Tessa Thompson take up that mantle makes a lot more sense than bringing back Natalie Portman. And that would kind of double…

I stopped drinking many American beers over the last few years because it had apparently become a contest to see who could make the most overhopped undrinkable shit and serve it with a straight face.