You took the words right out of my mouth.

What's amazing to me is that the only time I ever see gross-looking locs is when white people have them. Zendaya's look beautiful and tidy and beyond appropriate for the Oscars.

Yes, exactly. I will seriously miss this voice. He and the writers truly understand how to put things in a succinct and relate-able way.

"You're not the Mayor of 9/11, you don't own 9/11. You don't own anything but the unique willingness to crassly exploit it."

I spoiled myself by looking at the grades before reading the analyses. Apparently I'm still in high school where you gotta turn over the paper to look at the grade before reading why you got that grade.

Thank you for confirming that Colin Firth is amazing in real life. He's on my list of "if they say or do something horrible, I'm going to have to either ignore it completely or be sad for the rest of my life."

I totally agree, but I do like how much he gets his guests to sing and do these types of things. So, I guess I like the show's format, but I can't stand him.

Wow. That should obviously say "won an Oscar".

Right? This is like how I just checked my fitbit to see if it had gone up any when I'd just been sitting in my seat.

Completely agree. It's beyond belief to me that no one involved with writing and producing the show said "hey, guys, can we talk about how that looks for two seconds?"

I would've agreed with you if she hadn't one an Oscar recently for her role in "The Help". In no way do I think they did it to be intentionally racist, but it wouldn't have taken too much thought to pick another person.

Right? Like, generally, I would have just said that they totally didn't think of the implications of having a black person be put to work, but with her in particular, the tone is just so damn obvious.

I think that's a good point. I definitely don't think that we should put talking about gender disparities to rest until other inequalities are settled at all.

That I definitely agree with. I think I, and others reacting to it, am more taken aback by her comments because she is a relatively privileged white woman.

I would certainly hope that's how she meant it, but it just doesn't read that way to me. And I don't want to give it a pass just because she took a small step in the right direction. It shouldn't have been said.

Yeah, exactly. I don't think she's a villain at all, and I appreciate her bringing up feminism at the Oscars at all. But I hope that she can understand why what she said was an issue.

So, for me, I guess it's not that sexism is less important/impactful than homophobia or racism, but she didn't say "hey, oppressed people of the world, let's all band together against all of these horrible atrocities." Instead, she said that women have been fighting for the rights of POC and the LGBT community, and…

I commented somewhere else that there was no way to read her statement and not think it's horrible. And now I've seen all the comments from people defending her and the "maybe she didn't express herself as well as she should have, but" comments. WHAT. It's not particularly difficult to not tell oppressed/marginalized…

There were other comments about this that seem to have gone missing that may have had more info about this, but yeah, that's my thought as well: that the questions are different. Some of the questions are too preposterous to believe that people really answered them seriously.

Yeah that's what I was thinking, too. I know people often lie about having seen pop culture things, but these questions were so obviously far-fetched, I have a hard time believing that they were the questions that were really asked.