Sucking cock has a uniquely submissive connotation to it, though. Which is why people say that and not "EAT PUSSY!" when they're insulting someone. You have to consider the power differential between men and women and therefor sexual acts associated with men and women: women are not seen as having control over men, so…

You're exactly right! It's a dumb, lazy joke that has problematic tinges, but Colbert is obviously not a homophobic guy and has proven so abundantly over the years. I think the majority of the people calling for his removal are idiot alt-righters using LGBTQ people as a cudgel to attack a liberal icon. But it bothers…

You're right: the context is that Trump is considered subservient to Putin, and we exist in a larger context of how our society views gay men and women. Your inability to see the homophobia inherent to the joke— which, I agree, was not intended to slander gay men— is because you're not viewing the joke in context.

Why is the analogy for submissiveness and subservience sucking dick? The joke could've been that Trump drew him a nice picture, or wrote him a poem or something. Honestly, making the crux of the joke that there's a romantic relationship is kinda just from a "heehee two guys kissing" place of benign homophobia already.

I mean, it's definitely homophobic. Colbert's not a homophobic guy and doesn't need to be fired at all, but the joke was homophobic.

I'm sure gay people and women are very sad about your inability to keep make immature, lazy jokes.

So that joke was definitely homophobic, but Stephen Colbert is obviously NOT a homophobic guy. It was a distasteful joke that shouldn't have been made, but it's not a huge deal and we can all move on.

"Lionel: “I guess I just don’t like the idea of telling someone else’s truth.” I get where this line comes from, but dude, that’s like the entire point of journalism."

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Sometimes things are expected because it's the way it should happen! Unexpected isn't always good, clearly.

Yeah, and Avatar is thought of as a modern classic, too…

I guess I was talking more about the specific accusations of sexism, which he not only defended but went out of his way to say those elements were his choice and not the result of studio notes.

I think it's especially funny when people say The Lion King rips off Hamlet, as if Hamlet didn't rip off the Egyptian story of Horus. Plus, half of Shakespeare's plays were historical reenactments anyway!

Hell, even Dumbo was essentially based on a toy.

Dude, Disney is literally BUILT on milking old stories. The first feature length animated movie ever made was based on a 100+ year old fairy tale. Star Wars itself deliberately took inspiration from Joseph Campbell's idea of the cultural monomyth from The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

My desperate hope is that Jurassic World's awfulness had more to do with Universal trying to be a backseat driver. I know Trevorow has claimed this wasn't the case, but I'm hoping he's just being diplomatic. Especially because Safety Not Guaranteed was quite good, and showed some real promise.

I ALSO get mad about things that other people are talking about.

That's disappointing. I think Johnson is a much better director than Trevorow and was hoping he'd help elevate Episode IX beyond where it could end up.

I haven't seen it since I saw it in theaters, so my memory's hazy, but I remember really liking the mother/daughter storyline, and I liked Merrida as a character. I think it was a nice deconstruction of the princess movie genre. And to be fair, it also had a bit of a director carousel, although nothing on the level of …

I worked in Disney's Hollywood Studios on Sunset Boulevard and Animation Courtyard, and we sold it in most of our stores. Really everywhere except the store we called "Princess" (Voyage of the Little Mermaid dumped into it and it only sold Princess costume stuff), and the Toy Story Midway Mania shop, which only sold…