Yeah I agree he could definitely be greenlighting more movies with female directors or leads. But I don't think expecting him to direct stuff he may not want to is useful.

Not really the problem is there isn't enough diversity in who studios pock as directors or women getting opportunities to direct indie features. Directors choosing their own projects is fine.

How is the basic point correct? I'm not saying the colour purple absolves him of everything but it does mean banks was completely wrong.

Yes there is absolutely but there's also considerable non racist rhetoric around Brexit that views the EU through a left wing critique.

Corbyn has been subject to a massively racist and xenophobic personal campaign painting him as a traitor and the party as terrorist enabling communist nutters.. It's conceivable racist misogynists will vote for him but there's no evidence of that.

Sure sure but the lab manifesto and both it's actual progressive stance and it's portrayal in the press mean that any sort of prejudice like xenophobia or misogyny is clearly not going to be served by a labour vote at all. I suppose theoretically you could have a BNP/Britain first pseudo nazi vote for a progressive…

I mean I'd love to see it, they'd be utterly fucking doomed. I suspect the shadowy cabal of demons that really run the party will be a touch more sensible but damn, a man can dream.

Yes thats fair criticism. If you look at northern and Midlands constituencies though the gains made by both Tories and Labour come out to around equal that of the Ukip vote that disappeared. It could be a coincidence but demographically speaking that's unlikely because the high turnout youth vote is still dwarfed by…

Great analysis. I'd question this

Haha yeah there's going to be a shit load of takes like that. Fortunately this election demonstrated the people who make that sort of claim are increasingly irrelevant.

I disagree to an extent. Firstly there was a huge rise in votes for an unabashedly left wing manifesto, sure it's anti establishment but then so was the UKIP manifesto and they died the ignominious death they deserved. Also I think the press and commentators have been scrabbling around desperately trying to frame it…

They seem consistent and open to progressive policy, so yeah. Not all of them, there's still a hardcore of shitmongers but it's not the unassaibly large majority most of the press and right wing thought it was.

Oops. Yes quite right. TINA, practicalities, magic money trees, neoliberalism cannot fail only be failed.

An interesting wrinkle to all this is that the Ukip vote I.e the main drivers of brexit vanished and got snapped up by the Tories and Labour which means at least 50percent of all those supposedly horrible racist idiots backed a solidly progressive and contextually quite far left economically, set of proposals. Kinds…

I think having your main black super hero be named after a dangerous jungle animal is already pretty damn racist.

Yeah he might be a racist shit but he fronted the porn thing well. Kurt otoh did not.

his large adult kung fu sons

Christopher Reeve is the ultimate Ozymandias. 70's Redford would also rule.

Agree with point A, heavily disagree with point B. So… half an upvote?

Yeah but he must have utterly cleaned up on the backend deal I assume. Better than Nicholson for playing The Joker I bet.