For the love of gawd...why must these PR releases (the copy excerpted in the article above) be utterly illiterate? When you compose in unaccountable sentence fragments, don’t know the difference between “A” and “An,” and have not yet grasped the intricacies of how to add an apostrophe...I am forced to assume your…

(+10 for Yeats reference.)

Soooo...it’s not just me?

As a Jew, reading this was both profoundly informative and thought-provoking. I think Mr. Starr hits the nail on the head when he gets toward the end, and makes this encompassing statement:

Fact is that both Nicholas and his brother have a lengthy (and fairly gruesome) history as repeated victims of childhood abuse, too. (Their childhood abuse being another one of those “open secret” type deals out on Hollywood, I’m informed.) This is in NO WAY even REMOTELY offered as “mitigation” for fucked-up…

It’s called the Liar’s Curse.

Megan, yr right on the money. In all but the first decade of my life (the 70s), some form of skinny jeans has ALWAYS been a thing.

Jezebel has reached out to Hadrian Belove and Shadie Elnashai for comment. We will update this post when they respond.

Excellent point.

I hate to say this, but—in Trump’s “grab ‘em by the pussy” America—can you really imagine a major corporate studio entity pushing out a commercially-proven quantity like Whedon because a few “feminists” like us were upset with him?

Did he mention he’s an Ashkanazi Jew?

Re: alleged “Nuri”:

Folks, folks...don’t feed him. Without food, he’ll starve. :-)

That column was admittedly awesome. Though reading it made me nauseous, literally. (Srsly, I’m still trying to keep my lunch down.)

I know, right? This is, like, the best thread I’ve seen here in Kinja-land for I don’t know how long. :-)

I have lots of string!

Cats doing drugs. What next? SMH