Thank you for mentioning what this entire debate is about. It’s not simply the old directors not liking Marvel movies. It’s about the business of movies and how Marvel, through the growing Disney hegemony, is eating up screens at cineplexes and killing the adult-oriented drama.

You’re speaking very definitively about a film you haven’t seen

But he’s a cute white guy, Ishamael

No, she’s phenomenal. Should be the Supporting Actress frontrunner right now (note: I didn’t attend any fall film festivals so there’s a lot of movies yet to be widely released that could change this).

And unlike small children - who I don’t care be around but understand that they too sometimes need to fly

*white people

Sorry, but nonsense. Our relationship to animals teaches us to value humans, or should.

I don’t think a love of pets is connected to mass shootings. I’ve seen a lot of reasoning over the years but this is the strangest.

It’s not surprising that a country that values dogs over humans like the United States is also the country committing ethnic/race based human rights violations in concentration camps and having daily mass shootings. The two are connected.

And this is why I don’t like celebrities interviewing celebrities. A proper journalist would have pushed back on all of this. A proper journalist would have questioned whether his silence was genuine because he didn’t want to be the focus of #MeToo or cowardly because he wanted to come back later and quietly make…

That she, Asia Argento, and Rose McGowan were allowed to become the faces of the #MeToo movement was a grave mistake. There should’ve been more vetting and careful consideration of who became spokespersons for the movement instead of victimization being seen as automatic validation.

I’m not doubting that she was sexually harassed. But you said she was a “good cop.” Again, how do you know that? Because she sexually harassed?

Ah ok, good to know.

Yes, but that’s still too young IMO to be allowed to make such long lasting decisions. You can’t drive a car but are old enough to make this choice?

How old are children generally given hormone therapy? If 16 or older, I think that may be fair as they’ll have more life experience and are a little more worldly even if they’re technically minor. If younger than 16, I’m still with Lopez on that one.

Was Lopez talking about gender in terms of things like style of dress or gender reassignment surgery? Because if it’s the latter I gotta say, I don’t think pre-pubescent children should be allowed to make such decisions either.

Disgusting, but not surprising anymore. Most cops have already been proven to be racist, misogynistic pigs, so of course, now even the few good ones are becoming victims of police brutality.

What surprised me most about this story—and the scandal Wu endured after being accused of “ungratefulness” following an infamous tweet—is how easily the media engaged with the narrative. As the entertainment press, we field emails from executives and publicists daily. Everyone wants top billing and a slightly larger…