Consequence of the movie having two directors. Chapman wanted the story to focus on the mom/bear stuff from the start, but the higher-ups wanted to focus more on the “princess doesn’t want to do princess stuff” angle because they thought it would market better. When Chapman pushed back, Lasseter fired her (this is…

That’s the marketing keeping that little nugget- which ended up being the whole damn plot- pretty well hidden. Depending on who you talk to, it was either clever or deceitful.

As long as stuff like this (and same to the other story with blackface sketches) goes back up with disclaimers, I think that’s fair.

I was going to say the same thing. And that, oddly, Disney did the better film. As much as I enjoyed Brave, Wreck-It Ralph is just fantastic from beginning to end.

Not joking, I literally thought this show came off the air years ago. Like shortly after the X-Files episode that was shot like COPS was.

Yes, it is good enough. “People who menstruate” is a bit of an over reach and pretending it is otherwise is absurd. People’s attitudes will adjust in a natural, orderly manner but it’s going to take time. I will strive to use whatever pronoun people prefer but I will not do it by fiat or ideological pressure from…

Question: Do I have to adopt the terminology in order to be supportive? This is an authentic question, not concern troll baiting. My honest opinion on transgenderism is that there are only two physical sexes as an absolute with physical intersexism being so rare that it’s an outlier. However, I believe people can…

A similar argument (so incompetent he helped save the Union!) can be made for Hood. At the Battle of Franklin, the brash and bold Hood ordered a frontal assaults on Union breastworks; James M. McPherson wrote, “Having proved even to Hood’s satisfaction that they could assault breastworks, the Army of Tennessee had…

Not really, its more machinations of Gods and demigods and different factions trying to gain power. Something else that is kind of interesting about Percy Jackson is that there is not alot of 100% evil characters like Wizard Hitler, more often its either wronged people resorting to extremes or conflicts of ideology or…

And America collectively slapped its hands together and said “There. We took the gun away from a cartoon character; Our problem has been solved forever.”

YES!
THANK you!

This will probably come off wrong, but would it have been such a bad thing for Elmer to keep his gun?

He’s a dumb hunter who continually gets his comeuppance, he’s hardly someone you look to copy.

“Once a person who menstruates stops menstruating, what is she?”

TERF. It’s important, I guess, even after transitioning, to maintain some shorthand way of instantly dismissing the opinions of women who dare to disagree with you. For people who constantly insist they are real women, trans women sure do bring a lot of male entitlement to the table.

Back-in-the-day I used to love tuning in to my local college station to get my daily dose of ‘world music’. Then the self-righteous moral scolds arrived, claimed that the term ‘world music’ equals segregation and forced the programs off the air, effectively killing the sole outlet for foreign musicians in the US.

I could not possibly care less about this little meunstrating match. 

I pretend Toy Story 4 is actually a spinoff movie called A Woody Story. It makes much more sense to me that way, and I actually like it a lot once Bo Peep shows up.

Cars cars probably have shorter lifespans than people, or even some animals. I still can’t figure out how they do anything without hands.

Okay, I have to disagree with this, pretty vehemently. That was not the message of the film at all.

I don’t think that’s the part that makes him evil. It’s the part that drives him to do evil things. Like killing people. Do you think he would be rejected by people if he used his technology and motivation for good? Do people hate Batman?