Beyond being a bully, his character was sleeping with adult women whose pools he cleaned when he was a sophomore, and eventually ended up sleeping with one of his teachers who was also the mother of one of his classmates. There was actually a whole storyline where a character was scolded for planning to turn the…

I don’t think it was intended to be a response, either, but speaking purely from a PR perspective they really should have considered that it would be received as one. Two recent scandals directly connected with Fantastic Fest meant that this year’s festival was going to be under a microscope, and not just by those…

But this was an Ed Wood film featuring objectification which screened at a movie festival which has recently faced scrutiny because of charges that it condones sexual harassment - they’re all part of the same story. You can’t separate them out neatly into discrete topics because they are, in fact, all smushed together…

Programming a sexploitation film is in poor taste. Programming a sexploitation film right after two different allegations arise of you ignoring/excusing real life sexual assault is in poorer taste. In the latter case, your most recent action (programming the film) is being viewed in the context of your previous…

I was referring to Fantastic Fest’s decision to screen the Ed Wood sexploitation movie right after two different allegations came to light which suggest that Alamo Drafthouse tolerates the sexual exploitation of women in real life. Like the Ed Wood movie doesn’t exist in a vacuum, it was aired in a particular context,…

Man, if you actually think this is a valid point, this is a poor example with which to make it. The anger to this particular thing is pretty clearly the result of pent up bad will due to previous but still recent events.

In this case, I was responding to a dude who said this:

Oh, please.

You actually do seem to be having trouble following the flow of the conversation, given that you missed this in the very comment you were replying to:

I realize Kinja can make it difficult to follow the flow of conversation, but I was quite clearly bringing up clitorodectomies in response to a claim that only men in Victorian England were persecuted for being gay. If Victorian persecution of queer people  is irrelevant to the argument, bring it up with the dude who…

If your objection is to gender being changed rather than sexuality, as it seems to be, you need to stop generalizing gay men as “the gays” and stop assuming homophobia is the impetus behind anyone doing this or liking the idea. First, the person who’s directing and starring in the gender-flipped Dorian Gray movie is a…

There’s also the gay jokes.

Or, I dunno, praise from people who genuinely like the idea of a female Dorian Gray?

This isn’t some nameless dude in a normal office, though. In this case, it’s primarily a branding issue, for both Faraci and Alamo Drafthouse. Both have tried to brand themselves as cool and inclusive and interested in issues of social justice, particularly misogyny. (In fact, the thing that specifically pissed…

“In Chicago, Chicago is at the center of everything.”

Aw, thanks, dude.

Yeah, I think it’s notable that it doesn’t say “All of us should hope you succeed at your goals” (because that would be a nightmare) or even “All of us should hope you expand prosperity and security during your tenure” (because that would be laughable). It’s just “I dunno, let’s hope American gets better around you…

The average age of enlistment is below 21. Plenty of trans people either don’t realize they’re trans or don’t come out until they’re older than that; and, even if they begin transitioning when they’re younger, shouldn’t necessarily be having every surgery they might potentially want in their teens and/or can’t afford…

You are correct, I was born within a fifteen-year time span. Fair cop, gov.

I don't think they watered down the sex slavery themes over the show as a whole, but yeah, the first few episodes really bore down on fun kick-ass adventures without acknowledging that the whole thing was mostly a dehumanizing rape brothel and not an enterprise dedicated solving crimes and saving children. (Not to…