I have very clearly been articulating a scenario where I’m talking about a talented, invested actor leveraging professional connections and experience of their actor parents. Not spoiled children being handed jobs. Not sure how much clearer I can be on the subject before I have to just accept you’re not engaging in…

I actually agree with you. My biggest issues with Bush were 1) he was deeply uncurious and 2) inability to empathize with anyone whose experience was different from his own. I will note that on #2 I don’t mean he lacked empathy. I think he, as you said, was well-meaning and wanted to help people. But I think he failed…

Ah yes, the Gentleman’s C. I first learned the term when folks started digging into then-Governor George W. Bush ’s Ivy League past and tryin to square that with the fact that he was clearly, on some level, very deeply stupid.

I think the bigger deal w/ Downey was his reputation was next-to-dogshit at the time he was cast as Tony Stark. I know he gets a lot of credit for the success of the MCU but honestly I think he needed it more than they needed him. I’m sure there are other actors who could have taken on the mantle of Iron Man.

i ain’t never going back

This keeps happening to Latino foods, and I’m sure other cultures as well. Someone “discovers” or “innovates” a “new” take on food that has been part of a marginalized community for generations and profits.

Aren’t we saying the same thing then? If you believe you can give your child “unfair” life advantages in life while simultaneously advocating for a more just system, I don’t see how that’s any different than what I said.

The show ends with her character asking to be assassinated by a close family friend in her own timeline so she can continue her fight in the proxy “stub” android body she has in the future London timeline.

Counterpoint - international theme weeks are a brilliant idea that were terribly executed, and cutting them rather than learning how to do it right is the lazy coward’s route.

My point this entire time has been that lumping Gunn in with any of these ass clowns is fucking stupid. It’s so fucking stupid you yourself admitted “duh” there’s a difference in what they did, yet can’t seem to own that was the opposite of your initial premise.

How far does your radical level setting go? Are you going to send your kids to university? Pay for extracurriculars? Send them to school with a lunch? Not every kid gets those things. Are you going to deny your children those advantages in the interest of fairness?

Fascinating. So you’re saying if you had a talented child who put the work in and had the skills to follow in your career footsteps, you’d do nothing at all to help them? You wouldn’t help them find an agent or manager, wouldn’t introduce them to studio executives putting together projects, wouldn’t keep an eye out…

they seem like a lot of fun!

This. Nepotism opens doors. Absolutely. Is it unfair? Sure. Life is unfair. News at 11.

Distasteful, decades-old jokes and being a sexual predator don’t put you anywhere near the same league, boat, whatever, not even close. Especially when the “cancellation” of Gunn was clearly political in nature and part of an orchestrated attempt to portray progressive voices as hypocritical for having once made off…

You are 100% lumping him in by suggesting had he not repented he’d be in the same boat. The dynamic you’re setting up is that if Gunn had never apologized for questionable jokes he made on social media a decade prior, he’d be in the same league as a bunch of unrepentant sexual predators. Surely the weight of the…

Lumping James Gunn in with CK and R Kelly and the rest kind of destroy any credibility this comment may have had.

lol I was just thinking “someone just needs to strafe the crowd with a tommy gun”. Also thinking “this is America?” I can’t imagine just going about my day and randomly rolling past this fucking shit. 

I mean, he’s not wrong. He’s been incredibly lucky. There’s nothing that can happen to him at this point. It’s not like he’s going to spend a minute in jail. He could go to sleep on a Scrooge McDuck style pile of money every night if he wanted. He’s able to find pockets of industry acceptance where he can still be…

Heavy stuff. I’m in my early 40s and have only recently started to grapple with the idea of my own mortality. Intellectually I have always known I would not live forever but in my gut I always kind of hoped, if that makes sense.