Yeah, again, I'm not upset about Fiennes playing the role, but I don't feel sorry for the people behind it getting picked on either, nor does their reasoning move me in any way.

I disagree that Tilda Swinton would have been better, I don't think there's anything about her as a performer aside from appearance that could have allowed her to channel the role in an entertaining way, considering this is more or less a parody series, I would have liked for Phil LaMarr or a Phil LaMarr type to have…

And if the only thing that determined a person's race was outward, then you might have a point. Knowledge and experience homes. You also said a black man couldn't have as effectively been made to look like Jackson, which is bullshit. Like complete bullshit. Again, I don't care if you're happy with the casting or not,…

He wasn't an alien, he was a black man. When in doubt, hire a black man. I'm sure there are plenty out there more talented and better able to carry the role than Fiennes. But the point is moot, even the guy who took the role in the first place admits this was a stupid idea.

If Phil LaMarr and Flex Alexander can both be made to look like later in life MJ (and look respectively much better than and more or less as bad as Fiennes's version I might add) then there is literally no reason a black man couldn't have played this role. You can be offended or unoffended as you want, but don't make…

I actually thought Suicide Squad was a good move for him. Say what you will about it, it was the sort of big , stupid shoot 'em up that didn't let him take himself too seriously. He should be doing more of those IMO, Hitch was largely the same, just a different Genre, bad but fun chick flick as opposed to bad but fun…

Pretty sure one of them was just sleeping over. In any case Patty =/= Iris.

I find Barry and Iris's chemistry to be comparable to a flash of ankle in olden times. I mean that in a good way.

Yeah, if theirs was a normal relationship in any way. It so isn't.

When did he and Patty ever live together? I must have missed something. And Patty was always a lot easier to push away than Iris. Patty was his girlfriend, Iris is pretty much a part of him, they can't really be compared in that way.

Thank you for taking the time to read.

No, it was.

Hmm.

It probably doesn't help that we spend our lives on the internet, where our very worst instincts run wild and would likely get along fine if we talked in person for 15 minutes.

That just seems like blaming one form of shitty behavior for another form. Have I been made to feel lesser based on my race my whole goddamn life? Yes. Do I just stop giving a shit because of it? Hell no. And contrary to the apparent belief that only white people are accused of being racist, I, a black, queer woman…

I know I am. I don't mean to be, but I have my moments. Everybody does, to deny it is kind of silly.

If you don't care about that, then why would you care about what racist minorities think?

Some of these comments are interesting. Yeah, I get that minorities can be (and are) racist too, and that's not cool and not helpful and it needs to stop. But to imply that racism directed at white people is just as damaging as racism directed at minorities is sort of naive. It's like saying skinny shaming is just as…

Half of them pretty much made that clear with the whole Trump thing. I'm starting to think there needs to be a new method. I agree that making blanket statements about anyone is wrong and a good reason to get defensive. But I've seen a troubling number of white people get similarly defensive when the very subject of…

You know the season one song "Oh my God I Think I Like You?" that's exactly how I felt about Greg this episode.