Overwrought metaphor sucks and there is a lot of room for the more straightforward grindhouse delights. That said, I'm not a fan of the backlash against "elevated horror". That backlash generally feels pretty ignorant and unnecessarily edgelord.

I am as feminist as they come and the guy is an absolute scumbag. But you can’t hit someone. It doesn’t help anyone’s cause. You just can’t.

...yeah. While I certainly understand where you’re coming from, it’s not okay to hit other people in anger like that.

When you’re circling the drain as fast as the AV Club is, anything and everything suddenly becomes a take-worthy offense. 

it seemed pretty easy to argue that Snyder didn’t really get it

You suck, Sam.

Just think, if they actually gave a shit about this when the Don’t Say Gay bill was a thing, they could have actually had an impact and I don’t know, stopped a horrific piece of legislation designed to erase a whole lot of people from the education system.

Are you just, like, super-pumped that Q started posting again?

Remembering one sentence from various philosophical tracts and sections of the Constitution is a good way to seem well-read without having to read. I’ll bet he eats all his food as a paste, too. Life hacks for the win! 

Not all conservatives are anti-trans in their day to day actions, but all conservatives vote for politicians that are anti-LGBTQ in their legislation. You can argue all you want about how you’re not personally discriminating against people, but you are actively supporting politicians that literally create…

“How dare you act like all conservatives are assholes!”

*acts like an asshole*

Shut the fuck up chud

Misinterprets the passage in question.

This part is super frustrating. Ezra Miller’s really ruining things for the millions of non-binary people who aren’t abusive, psychotic assholes.

a “woman” sign on a bathroom door has never ever stopped a rapist. And certainly a tranwoman going in the men’s bathroom is at much  greater risk for assault.

Because it will get spun this way, Johnny Depp’s inevitable victory here will mean, in the grand scheme of things, nothing for men abused by women. It will be a victory for a man with expensive lawyers and millions of people who would take a bullet for a person they don’t know.

“also is the avclub just hiring one asian guy and assigning him to review all of the ‘asian movies’”

coupled with the turning red review it sure does feel like “these tropes that i recognize and embrace from my own life (in a major studio kids movie) are good representation, and these tropes that i don’t recognize from a different culture (in a first-time director’s horror movie) are bad representation”, which,…

tropes that appear in the film are directly responsible for the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes

Yes, God forbid the little people earning a wage get treated with dignity and respect. I guarantee Sam Levinson was getting all the breaks he needed.