Interesting, because Cloverfield was directed by Matt Reeves and written by Drew Goddard.

Maybe something akin to this.

Oh, so using it as an insult is about creating absurd straw men and in no way a reflection of reality.

Except that’s a massive and overblown exaggeration of most people characterized as “SJWs.” At this point the term is basically used as an ad hominem attack against anyone who’s more concerned with social issues than the person who’s doing the labeling is comfortable with.

Step 1 to adding diversity in a positive manner: Don’t hire creators that compare groups to pedophiles.

Hey there Stella, thought I’d do my best to respond as, well, a Trans Woman. I’m relatively early in my transition mind you, but I think I can still give you decently fair answers to your questions. I do find it comfortable AND meaningful to hang out with cisgendered women and be considered “one of the girls” because…

Well trans women aren’t a monolith so they probably all have different opinions on things. Just like cis people. You connect with strangers presumably regardless of their gender

I’m struggling with how to meaningfully connect with trans women in the sense that they have had a lifetime of different discrimination. They have been simultaneously hurt and privledged by a system that prefers men (at least until they transition?). Do trans women find it comfortable/meaningful to hang out with cis…

I was holding my breath when I read the email they sent out to alums on Thursday. So, so happy that they are doing this.

Yes, I quite liked the work of Harris, but when it comes down to it, you can’t beat Harris.

It’s all about straight dudes who don’t want to imagine anyone except straight white dudes like themselves play or create video games and are outraged about any representation or acknowledgement of those other types of people. Additionally, they hate women because women won’t have sex with them, which they feel they…

*Burton’s Batman films were the only good Batman films.

Don’t you dare fucking call me and other trans women “mentally ill men” you fetid, squirming little insect.

Women can now go to a women’s college! This marks the end of the women’s college!

You have a mistaken idea of what the “Female Gaze” actually is. The Male Gaze is defined as the assumed male audience being able to put themselves into the life of the movie, as the events revolve around their desires, not just “Dudes like to look at women.” The fact that we get to focus on Cap’s butt in one shot, or…

Catering to the female gaze doesn’t mean they’re making movies about women as characters whose stories are not centered around men and are complex and multifaceted. While it is great that Marvel recognizes that women (and gay/bisexual/pansexual men) have sexual and lustful desires that are as valid as male desire that…

Well seeing as the joke is saying that it’s somehow horrifying to sleep with trans people then yes it is very offensive. If I made a joke where the punchline was that someone slept with someone who turned out to be a black person who whited up so they killed themselves it would be seen as incredibly racist and would…

The problem is that the core of the joke is “he was so upset at having been ‘tricked’ by a trans woman that he killed himself.” There’s no way to rewrite the joke to not be transphobic without fundamentally altering every detail.

Hazel-rah.

Tharn. My Aspie husband gets that way too, actually.