Okay, but drilling progressive values down to being against exclusion is really missing the boat here. Progressive values are about dismantling oppressive power structures and ending the financial, social, and institutional discrimination and inequality faced by women, racialized people, LGBTQ+ people, etc. etc.

You can play Motown all you like and enjoy it all you like. Where it gets sticky is when “blue eyed soul” is better paid, played more, and gets prestige that Black artists don’t.

It’s not really just cultural exchange, though, when the same thing that gets a Black woman fired gets Kim pictures in a magazine and contributes to her multi-million dollar fortune.

My step/siblings and I used to “ironically” crank Daughter to Father in the car. “Ironically.”

3 months salary for an engagement ring, don’t wear white after Labour Day, no girl should ever wear your dad’s chain.

I mean, it was a joke. But given that they’re fine with coercively treating queer youth...

Maybe they should use their talents to change the behaviour of the homophobes doing the discrimination...

“Oscar Isaac? I’m in!” *watches trailer* “Yiiiikes.”

YES. Even with the one mention of women who sleep with men and women, they literally erase bisexuality by not naming it.

I’m sorry, what? Interest in your partner’s pleasure is a preference? No, it’s a prerequisite to having good sex. Otherwise what you’re looking for is a god damned sex doll.

Well, Stephen (Hailey’s dad) is a fundamentalist Evangelical, whereas I think the others are probably your run of the mill East Coast Catholic.

I didn’t say it was the same as crack. Crack was developed because freebase was so dangerous (due to the incompletely evaporated ether), and it was a real bonus that it’s a lot cheaper since you have to add filler to make a non-freebase smokable cocaine product.

It hits a lot faster and more intensely and then recedes quickly requiring more frequent use (similar to how you’d need to inject far more often than you’d snort).

Oh, buddy, no.

Why do people always act like irritated leftists have the power to ban or prohibit things? We don’t. We can just say “this is fucked up, we’re not supporting it” and then not buy movie tickets.

Yes, absolutely. And if you dare to share the mountains of evidence showing that long term weight loss is only possible for a tiny fraction of the population, they lose their shit.

So then...it’s her fault. For being greedy. I am not seeing where we are disagreeing.

It feels immensely disingenuous to me to pretend that yet another cis person of the wrong gender playing a trans person is the same as requiring people to be in love in order to be cast as romantic leads. Are you kidding me here?

I mean, it’s her fault in that she has a fair amount of cache and could say “No, and you should cast a trans man.”

That’s a good point. It’s just so fucking tiresome, though.