Like 9 times out of 10, if you call out a person for saying/doing something shitty and their response is to dig in their heels instead of doing any kind of self-reflection, that person is a fucking tool. Like, good for this obnoxious little chode that he was humbled by this a bit, but literally ALL he had to do back…

That lady who starts cackling immediately is fucking fantastic

There is a pretty wide gulf between "the villains are portrayed as ugly" and "anyone who is ugly is inherently bad and deserves to die" as the movie *inarguably* pushes. The villains are an amalgamation of basically every single bogeyman a straight white adolescent male could ever possibly have. Just because it's…

It implies that the movie is racist (which is unambiguously is). It still doesn't pass judgment on everyone who likes it.

As the article mentions. Why even bother commenting if you don't bother to read the actual content first?

I don't see anywhere in the article where it says (or even implies) that anyone who likes 300 is a bad person.

Shoutout to Zack Snyder and 300 for helping to contribute to my internalized homophobia! Also, eat shit.

The "pancakes" scene got (and still gets) a lot of shit, but I still find it kind of hilarious for how like, it's this dude who's already in the midst of a freak-out, and just trying to find help, and here's something utterly inexplicable and pointless happening to him instead. It's funny to me in sort of the way that…

He seems determined lately to push all the ugliest, most hateful parts of 70s and 80s horror into the modern-day mainstream, for the sole sake of pissing off those darn Ess Jay Doubleyews.

you didn't, but Sham Smith sure seems to be implying it.

you're just determined to be obtuse here huh

nobody here said or even implied that it was the same thing. but just because it's less bad doesn't mean it's not still bad. if you're not offended by that that's fine, you do you, but don't tell other people in a historically oppressed group that they're being ~overly sensitive~ because they happen to not like when…

someone on the AV Club pulling out the "being intolerant of their intolerance" card! neato.

nobody said anything like that but please, pull out some more smug strawmen.

Like if I frequent a restaurant or something and find out that the people there are "weirded out" by my being gay, even if they're perfectly nice and polite to my face, I would have no desire to go there or consume their food ever again.

That's fair.

That it's less bad than like, people who call for conversion camps and want to ban gay marriage doesn't mean that it's not bad. You trying to twist the meaning of the quote like this to paint it in the best possible light is frankly kinda weird.

No, if it happened it's pretty bad.

I mean, the implication in your comment as a response to the headline of the article was pretty clear (as well as mentioning the quote as something he definitely said, which isn't really the case).

I'm not really sure where to fall on it. As someone else already pointed out, it was an accusation made by someone who already had a business-related axe to grind against him, and the only person who publicly backed it up was someone ELSE with a business-related axe to grind against him. To me personally, as a gay…