No matter what happens, a vocal percentage of people will be gigantic dicks about it.

I mean, I’m not even mad. Dude gets paid for not writing.

It’s true. I’m a 48 year old white male and I haven’t been given a book deal.

“Write.”

Flagging this for making me look at Woody Allen’s face

“When you’re used to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”

“The underpaid young writers cranking out the books I slap my name on are increasingly foreign to me and it’s making the facade harder and harder to maintain.”

He’s clearly not going to the meetings, because according to my count, 15 white males over the age of 50 had No. 1 NYT fiction bestsellers in 2021 — including three who hit No. 1 with multiple projects.

It only helped him, really

Huh, it’s almost like the industry might be changing so that white men aren’t automatically granted success.

You bastard, you stole my time slot.

“It’s even harder for older writers. You don’t meet many 52-year-old white males.”

“It’s even harder for older writers. You don’t meet many 52-year-old white males.”

Yes, Woody has a right to tell his story, and no one took that right away. He does not have a right to it being published by a major publisher.

Wow sounds like somebody keeps Tucker Carlson on in the background while they write novels.

You had to pay to see Titanic. Harassing people on the streets is free.

To many of us his continued adulation is inexplicable, knowing what we do

The lines to get off it were.

Is Johnny Depp really “inexplicably beloved”? Inexplicably? A pop culture writer really can’t put her finger on a bunch of reasons why Johnny Depp, super sexy and charismatic star of 21 Jump Street and countless other projects, might be beloved? I’m not even saying he’s not a shithead. Of course he is.  But if why…

Huh, I thought the greatest enemy the Doctor has ever faced was a ‘70s BBC budget.