There is nothing wrong with that sports report. I thought it was rather clever. Or at least as clever as a sports reporter in Chattanooga is going to get. And it was not disrespectful. He wasn’t making fun of Prince. And why fire the guy? What about a suspension? There’s more going on here than meets the eye.

If I were just reading his comments about or his comments on feminism I would be hesitant as well... but following him on social media, he also says some really great and powerful things (in my opinion) about other issues, especially mass incarceration in the 21st century. So when I see him say something that makes me…

I think it's just really rare to see a guy who sympathises and is willing to understand the issues. Like, I can't help it, I want to marry him.

Ah! Yeah, that sounds about right. It’s mostly contained to the pick up scene, but... It’s disturbingly common attitude.

I’m with you on this one. It isn’t so much the fact that they are given these roles that are motion capture or that require a lot of makeup, it is that they aren’t given as many roles that just allow them to be black. In contrast to the white actors who seem to get a decent balance between those two types of roles.

I think the larger issues that make “recoloring” black actors more problematic is that there are relatively none or few in these films to whom such does not happen, while there are plenty of white actors who aren’t “recolored” in the same films. There’s Quill and many other white characters in Guardians; there are…

I admit I thought the same thing as I was reading, but then it occurred to me: Saldana (for example) was probably cast for her “exotic” (non-white) looks. So non-white = alien. Paint her green or blue to avoid the pesky “political” connotations of her actual skin color and voila! A sexy alien we can all be comfortable…

It’s because a) we as black people are not human in any way shape or form palatable to people who are not of sub saharan descent, especially “white” people b) white people will complain and maybe not see your movie if they have to view us...or at least if they have seen us “around” a critical mass of movies and c) we…

Yeah, it’s...often the same in the gay world (if not sometimes terrifyingly worse). I’m a 26 year old femme guy, and I was told not too long ago that I was well past it in terms of being fuckable - because of my age, literally nothing else (the delivery of the line was roughly “you’re cute enough but you shouldn’t…

I don’t think anything is wrong with this relationship. I do think that because this is a young man, people are more accepting and less judgmental than if it was a woman. If this were a woman, she would be getting called every kind of gold digging whore.

But what evidence do you have of anything? I think a 50 year age gap is creepy. You don’t. This isn’t a debate about climate change or vaccinations. There’s no scientific consensus on which position is correct.

It sounds like my woman friends in their 50's trying to find a man to date them who’s not at least in his 70's. It would be interesting to ask those guys who are 10-20 years older than you if they would date someone 10-20 years older than themselves.

One of my favorite boyfriends was both younger (16 years) and shorter than I (four inches). We had a ball; I couldn’t believe he was pursuing me —- I was 37 and he was 21; both of us broke. He had had a rough childhood —- brutally abused by his father. When he was 14, his father shot him in the chest with a starter…

I said this on the other thread but how nice it must be to be a wealthy man. I’m 34 and have dudes in their 40s and 50s telling me I’m too old to date. But this guy picked up a 25 year old athlete at 75 and they've been together for 15 years? Please let me come back as a rich dude in my next life.

.....more than any other segment of American society, the gay world is THE most youth obsessed.....I say this as a gay man.....

Uh, had this been with a 40 year old woman, you guys would be calling this super creepy and gross (and rightfully so).

@Bunnya69: In the UK the term toyboy is still used, which is rather demeaning when applied to a mature adult. However it is far from being a modern phenomenon. Diana de Poiters had the French King in thrall to her and she was twenty years older. The Victorian philanthropists Angela Burdett Coutts shocked English…