‘African American women average 64 cents for the dollar every man makes and Latinas get 44 cents for every dollar a man makes here in California’

I think it’s more self-absorption combined with a stunning lack of self-awareness. I have social anxiety and I guarantee I subscribed to that only-assholes meme for a while in my younger days. That’s just lack of confidence and low self-esteem.

It’s manhood that’s more than half-fledged, while stopping short of being over-fledged.

Mass murderers, by definition, are not nice guys.

Yet, these same people almost certainly favor increased military spending.

A few summers ago, I went camping near a lake. After a morning hike, I came across a pretty delicious looking kayak with no one else around. Of course, I started eating it. This woman came out of the woods screaming “Dude, don’t eat my kayak! You’re breaking it. Dude, stop.” Until one of my friends showed up and…

The real irrational part is that she jumped out of the car to get away from a spider that was on her shoulder. The spider would have come right along with her.

“...this year’s guest editor, the fluidly-genred Native American writer Sherman Alexie.”

I mean, just look at all the money she’s saving the county by not printing marriage certificates.

Not even Daniel Baldwin - the most mountainy of Baldwins?

Bush as in H. W. Bush? Not only do I doubt he had a private server - I very much doubt he even knew what an email was while in office.

There was some yelling about the Bush admin’s email deletion, etc. as they left office. Then Obama rolled in and gave a nice little speech about “looking forward and not back.” that was the end of that. Since the right side of the aisle has no such compunction, we’re hearing about this. Simply saying “yeah, well what…

“I can make a bad movie from a good script, but I can’t make a good movie from a bad script.” - George Clooney

Ok. That makes more sense. That really is one of the shittiest aspects of Hollywood - the risk averse nature is so deeply set that even with successes to point to, it’s not enough to shift the perception that only certain types of movies can succeed.

In the discussion on the facebook page where this all started, someone mentions that the first round readers last year were 55% female. I’ll grant you that this doesn’t preclude subconscious bias across both gendered readers or a change in that demographic for this year, but what you’re suggesting is conscious bias in…

In last year’s competition, 3 of the 5 winners were women.

There was a modicum of intelligence in The Hangover - the smartest thing it did was exclude flashbacks entirely and use the structure of a mystery to propel the comedy. That said, the sequels were ass.

You’re making easily as many assumptions here as the reader.

A read of the submission guidelines for the fellowship indicates that scripts ARE reviewed blind - no author names are to be included on the screenplays.

I remember so little of what actually happens in it, but as soon as I saw the pic I was like “The Journey of Nattie Gan!” (sp?)