It’s a true fuck you to all his female staff members.

You’re right, that seems to be where we have to agree to disagree. I’m not saying that intent never matters (although there are certainly people who disagree with that), but I wouldn’t say that lack of intent excuses all actions, no matter how harmful. Plus I find it hard to believe that a grown man and husband of…

It doesn’t matter if “in his mind he’s not abusing her” if in actuality he’s abusing her. Expressing interest in spywork is not consenting to mean-spirited humiliation at the hands of what should be a trusted loved one. 

You said it yourself, it doesn’t justify his approach. The misogyny is that it tries to justify spousal abuse because it make him a better man. Just because she’s willing to go on a mission doesn’t mean she consents to her husband lying, manipulating, and attempting to sexually demean her. 

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the best thing about Tom Hardy’s Bane is that it gave us Harley Quinn’s Bane.

But that just frames it as his cruelty and manipulation of her is justified because it made him a better man. It’s not OK to victimize your spouse for your own personal growth.

Yeah, that scene is still awful and misogynistic, even if we can appreciate how talented Curtis is within its mean-spirited framework. 

“Is the scene humiliating for Helen? For Jamie Lee Curtis?”

Yeah, Hughie got sexually assaulted in the last episode and raped in this one. 

Anti nepotism rules are in place because they recognize that outside of a small family business, nepotism is a corrosive, unethical practice that is antithetical to equity and meritocracy.

Which makes it difficult, but not impossible, to make a more equitable system.

It’s absolutely not true in every industry, many, if not most have very strong anti-nepotism rules. Plus, nothing ever gets better if you just give up. A fairer, more equitable system is always worth striving for, especially one with so much money and global influence.

Yes, a large part falls on the people doing the hiring and those who set up the business. It also falls on the famous, wealthy parents who wield their clout to push their offspring to the head of the line, ahead of equally or more qualified folk who never get a shot.

Which is not the point, at all. The point is not that there aren’t very talented nepo babies (and I like Jack Quaid!), it’s the unfair advantage that works to exclude equally talented artists from ever getting their shot. It makes for a industry more centered on and run by the rich and predominantly white.

“he ‘was able to get representation pretty early on, and that’s more than half the battle.’”

“a refreshingly progressive show that explored the dysphoria of adoption”

You don’t need nuanced gender politics to have women existing as people in your movie.

“Jeff Shell, who was fired from the Comcast company after an investigation corroborated allegations of sexual harassment against him, has been named by Skydance as the future president of Paramount”

That’s a fair criticism

Yeah, it’s probably more accurate to say I would rewatch OG movie and LC in their entirety but I would watch those set pieces of ToD plus the mine cart and fast forward through the rest.