You’re just becoming more aware. Hollywood has always been about who you know and if that who is a parent, then the sky is the limit. Shoutouts to Rob Reiner.

Three generations of Barrymores (along with numerous other families) say you’re just becoming aware now.

in “old hollywood” it was almost impossible to break in the industry if you werent the child of someone connected so, no, it’s not new

Only the beautiful people.

that’s the only one you should know.

Nobody needs 70% of the things you own. That is a silly argument. Did you eat meat more than once in the last week? That was unneeded.

This is the best thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life.

Uh, how can you say that a woman’s perspective on public breastfeeding is a tiny, tiny slice out of the issue? It’s MOST of the issue

And that, my dear, is white privilege in a nutshell. You can’t imagine that someone different from you could possibly do something better than you.

Are you claiming that he maintained the same brand from CC to CBS? Because that’s patently untrue

but the problem is, he doesn’t have nearly enough personal experience with injustice to interrogate it from every angle (no one person does—but white, straight men especially do not)—

Well, given that when he moved from Comedy Central he had to completely revamp the style of show and find a new voice, I’m gonna say... nah. Not buying it.

But it also says that perhaps Colbert’s more comfortable with the writing of people who are EXACTLY like him.

The blind packets are just a way for comedy shows to get away with maintaining the same status quo.

Interesting. That using someone’s pre-transition name is like accusing them of faking makes zero sense to me. Faking what? The person went by X name at X time.

Since I live and breathe trans stuff due to it being issue my family has been navigating for a while now, I’ve probably hypersenstive to how trans issues are discussed in popular culture. This didn’t set off my radar at all. I found Gervais’ joke delightfully dark. The media built Jenner up as a morally superior being…

He can do whatever he wants, and he'll probably still not be transphobic. People are taking issue with everything, largely. The name, the driving joke, the fact that he exists, etc etc.

“Lots.” “Very often.” “How it’s been explained to me.” This comment wouldn’t even pass the Wikipedia muster. But I guess one can find outrage anywhere, so long as one looks hard enough.

Oh, I meant argument as in ‘fight.’ I agree there is no real argumentation here. There’s just ridiculousness.

Caitlin Jenner spent more than 60 years, much of it in the public eye, as Bruce & then chose to transition in front of the world (and bravo for that, honestly) but the idea that using the name “Bruce” when talking about an event from her former life is a huge transgression is just absurd.