I’m not going to try to reason anything away. This lady committed a crime and she was arrested. It had nothing to do with her being trans, she didn’t use being trans as an excuse to be in the bathroom (also she is a trans woman. Most people who argue against trans women being in bathrooms are usually talking about wome…

Which yep, some have. Not a lot, but it has happened.

But I can’t shake the feeling that, originally, she was left-leaning enough and seemed to display enough compassion that if the right people had gotten to her, and managed to talk some sense into her, she could’ve been brought round.

I am very pro adoption and plan on never getting pregnant. If I wake up one day and feel like kids are the missing thing in my life, adoption is the only thing I would consider. And yet, I don’t think that is the solution to be pushing to someone who wants to get pregnant and have a baby. Apart from the fact that the…

Lets agree to disagree. To me, if the reviewer said “costume choice was interesting as it sometimes was distracting from the movie” does not reduce the movie to just that. The reviewer saying “This movie fits in the A24 aesthetic as a 95 minutes cleavage ad” somehow reads to me as a summary of the movie to just that.…

The actress has a bigger chest so if the reviewer included a “throwaway line” in her review that boils the movie down to “95 mins cleavage ad”, a generous reading of that would be she was directing it at A24 but really how it has been interpreted by both Amandla and majority of people is it was a dig at the actress.…

If you believe the actress, she decided with the costume designer what her character would wear. Which is what a person her age would wear, a tank top. So because she exists with a bigger chest, she has to dress “modestly” so a critic won’t focus on her cleavage?

Wilson might not have mentioned Amandla directly but when Amandla is the only one with visible cleavage in the movie and Lena reduces the movie to “a 95 min ad for cleavage...”, who exactly is she talking about?

The only person with visible cleavage (admittedly from the pictures I have seen) is Amandla. And as a someone with big boobs, it is very easy to show cleavage. It’s kind of shitty to exist as someone with a bigger chest and then be criticized as your movie being an advertisement for cleavage. It’s the same thing women…

Why should Black twitter cap for someone who has said anti-Black things in the past? It’s her personal identity and she can go on a journey to figure out how she identifies but she is not owed support when she hasn’t exactly figured out how pro Black she wants to be

Thank you for summarizing this. It is sad how little cultural competency avclub has when it comes to issues that focus on Black people/culture. It was the same misunderstanding of Keke Palmer/Zendaya stuff.

Because the US is the only place where Black people are...

Well known to who and why do you think Keke Palmer courts the same type of success? Being Black famous is a thing and there are celebrities who care about that more than “mainstream” success.

People don’t understand (And the largely WHITE audience of Av Club will never understand this) that Keke Palmer is black famous.

Here’s what you said:

And Lia Thomas is not even dominating the sport so the 1 trans woman they can find is still being beaten by cis woman in certain events so...

This is from her wikipedia page so you can go there and look at the references but I have copied out her stats, I have bolded the relevant bits:

Don’t fall for this lie. Trans women are not dominating any women’s sport. None. Ask for examples when people bring this up

Give one example of this:

A lot of people don’t know how to praise someone without shitting on someone else in the process. The director could have easily said wow congrats on your nominations Bradley, shows all the work you’ve been doing. I’m surprised actress has only 3 noms, I think you should have more just from the quality of work you put…