What about favorites? Can we do favorites?

How many tries do they get at this? I imagine there are plenty of smaller agencies that are much more diverse and would die to work with these companies.

I heard Rachel Bloom and Aileen Brosch McKenna (the creators, writers, and in Bloom’s case the star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) on some podcast or radio show discussing diversity in television. They basically said that if you don’t specify that a character is supposed to be non-white, casting agents will just…

I was nodding along with you until I froze remembering all the racist douchebags* who freaked out about Rue from the Hunger Games being “made” black even though she was literally black the whole time, you guys. Obviously it didn’t hurt the franchise any at the box office, but those people do exist.

Especially for a movie whose premise is literally “children from around the world who are peculiar are gathered onto an island for their own protection”. I read the book and as far as I remember all the characters were described as white and European, but there’s zero reason that had to be the case.

“huh, this was great, except it was a little too diverse.”

You can’t really tell from this picture, but the invisible kid is actually black.

Attitudes like this are so fucking disconnected from reality. I have never once watched a film or tv show and thought “huh, this was great, except it was a little too diverse.” I cannot for the life of me understand why directors wouldn’t want to cater to (or at least pay lip service to) the 37% of America that…

It’s easy Tim, you just take a role, ANY OLD ROLE, and assign it to a person of color; bc people of color should not exist in media as droll stereotypes for middle america to laugh at while patting themselves on the back for making the bare minimum attempt to be inclusive.

When I was 9, my mom took me to classes called “the body shop” where I learned how to restrict my calories and dress in dark colors to look skinnier - I had a workbook and homework and everything. When I was 16, my grandfather informed me that I needed to lose weight “for the good of the family.” Over the years, I…

Newt’s also very self unaware. He regularly attacks people for infidelities (like Bill Clinton in the 1990s), when he cheated on at least two wives-- both of whom were sick. Him talking about a woman gaining weight fits that pattern. Newt is apparently unaware that he looks like porky pig

Starred for “petulant whiteness.”

You know, all you have to do is say, “Ma’am/Sir, you have just had an accident and are probably in shock. Can you come sit here for a minute? You’re not in any trouble.” You know, with KINDNESS in your voice. And if the person wants to leave anyway and is a minor, you can slowly follow them home and keep reassuring…

That America is being taken down by a combination of celebrity worship and petulant whiteness is a pretty good argument in favor of a god who loves ironic punishments.

No one’s as irrationally confident in their looks as fat white dudes. Like, they’re always the loudest critics of other people’s looks, particularly women’s.

The day that I can read the news without having to come across the name Donald Trump will be one of the happiest days of my life.

But what was her crime? What was the thought process here? You feel fine enough to not go the hospital so I’m going to kick your ass and pepper spray you so you do? More likely they wanted to punish a little black girl for having the temerity to tell them no. I mean, was she in custody at the time?

It’s horrifying. She is terrified, screaming bloody murder throughout the entire video. They violently arrested her, twisting her arms behind her.

“depicting cops arresting and pepper-spraying a 15-year-old girl in Maryland after she’d refused to go to the hospital after having a minor bike collision with a vehicle”

This is so tiring.