Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Elba’s work on that movie took second place to the kid (Abraham Atta) who was just fucking terrific. But it was a long time ago in seasonal terms and movies that release closer to the time tend to get more nominations as they are top of mind. I’m not surprised It Follows didn’t get…

I recall George Lucas talking about his film Redtails - which nobody paid to go and see. Redtails is about an all black squadron of fighter aces in WW2. It’s pretty low budget and It’s made of prime Lucas cheese, but it’s a hoot.

movies do have diversity - people arent going to see them in droves. Hollywood isnt the problem, audiences are.

blame the audience. its all about box office.

“should ask themselves, “Can you cast a black woman in that role? Can you cast a black man in that role?

First the holocaust, now this!

Professional Comedians, always with the jokes.

you cannot explain jokes to people who dont get jokes. Even after you explain the retort will be either “I dont get it” or “it still isn’t funny - you should never joke about x,y or z”

Right - the point is Women have never and will never kill anyone. Only men do that. Or was the point that a score keeping, cheerleading, tribal gender-war approach to horrible crimes is one best suited to the tragedy of the situation?

A study made by the U.S. Department of Justice of prison releases in 1992, involving about 80 percent of the prison population, found that the average sentence for convicted rapists was 11.8 years.

Its more like the sexual objectification of men is considered by women to be Hilarious and thus not an issue. The sexual objectification of women by men is considered to be demeaning and disempowering and never, ever funny. This has as much to do with the ability of some people to live and let live as it does with the…

“Why anyone is clutching their pearls over this is beyond me.”

Yeah and they would be considered ugly pornography. Whereas you people don’t seem to think this fits the bill for some reason?

Well argued!

Looking forward to your disney princess vaginas post and the ensuing lawsuit.

I like and fear the way you think.

This is not a sensible church.

You have people on here saying smiling is coercion.

This. It’s more manslaughter than murder in the first. The problem is we have only one ‘Degree of Rape’ and not a scale. Rape is both a legal term (the crime of Rape) and an informal one - to plunder or despoil.

That cuts both ways.