France, can we talk?

I have been looking forward to the Jezebel take on this (especially the comments!) because I am so conflicted. In no way do I want to minimize Ms. McGowan’s anger or commitment, but at the same time, I kind of feel this is an odd fight to pick. I understand that Ms. Portman has, perhaps, in large part only paid lip…

Part of the problem is that there isn’t one traditional path to becoming a director. Most people go to film school, but some come up through other paths (like acting or screenwriting). Some start with directing shorts or very small-budget movies submitted to festivals or competitions, some start with directing commerci…

She has a small personal production company-she’s not Universal or Paramount or Disney with bonkers money to do whatever she wants.

Sure, just as soon as I can beat my cubicle neighbor for clipping his nails at his desk without it being labeled “assault and battery.”

Remember when Patty Jenkins was Thor 2's director and was replaced with Alan Taylor? And Portman was pissed and started to get the “difficult” label way back in early 2010s because she was promised a woman as director, which was why she agreed to do Marvel, and then the “Jane” character disappears under Taika? So…

“Natalie is an Academy award winning, long-time actress who could command a lot of control over the projects she chooses.”

And yet she’s still done more than McGowan who so far has done little for anyone but herself and labelled other activists as “douchebags” and “sellouts”, who’ve raised millions to support victims, because she didn’t get invited to their lunches and didn’t get press for herself in certain magazines.

Please. Rose is just bitter that she wasn’t made the face of MeToo like she expected.

“You did something about a complex, huge problem, but it didn’t fix the entire problem, so the thing you did is WORSE than doing nothing at all!!!”

orrrr five more kids to start their own doomed and noble house...! hehehe

Yeah, this. I came here to make the same point about the conflation being made here, but you said it well. It’s easy to shit on Instagrammable plant walls as a foil for our country’s shameful lack of actual systemic, affordable healthcare, but given that we *do* have that hole in our system and we ain’t fixing it…

When I was growing up in the 70's and 80's, ALL healthcare was like the kind your 200 dollars a year pays for. It was expected and normal. The fees for visits were reasonable, and there were still a dwindling number of doctors who did house calls as well.

This entire ecosystem, which appears to be getting bigger every day, was bankrolled and built by people who have concluded the only way to reform the system is to build another one where the simplest form of healthcare is a saleable and aspirational experience, not a service. And definitely not a right.

Listening to Rotunno on The Daily was one of the most angering interviews I’ve heard. I wonder what it’s like inside her head making all the excuses cos I did get the impression that she actually believes this shit.

I mean he did have pretty crap parents.

There’s been a couple of instances where she’s signed onto projects with female directors attached or promised only for them to be sacked or not show up.

Apparently Natalie Portman is now a false ally of women for not having worked with an arbitrary number of female directors to be allowed to call out the Oscar snubbing of female directors according to noted principled crusader and arbiter of activism Rose McGowan.

Page Six reports that the prince is “reportedly in talks with the banking giant Goldman Sachs.” To do what, exactly?

There are legitimate reasons for abortion. There are no excuses for child molestation. I attended Catholic schools and I can assure you that there was all kinds of improper things going on that were swept under the rug. I don’t understand how a vow of celibacy has an asterisk when coming to children, but hey! I don’t…