Why wouldn’t they?  Nobody outside of a small circle of twitter activists actually gives a fuck about trans rights. 

“introduced 50 Cent’s “P.I.M.P.” to steel drums”

How old are you? Play the literal first few seconds of that song on YouTube and tell me what instrument you hear.

This makes total sense. Tarantino is the kind of guy who is narcissistic/confident enough to write some masturbatory bullshit but also self aware enough to realize that it is bullshit and scrap it for something a little less masturbatory. And I say that as a fan.

Are they gonna make AVC subscription-based like they did with Jezebel and Splinter? Because 1) If Teti or O’Neal or whoever had asked for readers to do that back during the site’s glory days to avoid being bought out by Univision in the first place, I would have gladly said yes, but not for this husk and disemboweled v…

Something something AI AV Club irony something

It’s the 21st century. Everyone is, including you...and me. 

“it’s a clear sign that American audiences just love stories about white saviors ingratiating themselves into an indigenous culture and then deciding that they are actually that culture’s messiah.”

Listen you might not know this but Gen Z, through Tik Tok, was the first generation to ever speak about things like the “white savior” myth. How could a white man in the 60s ever think of such a thing?!

While you are correct that the Fremen are not original from Arrakis so not indigenous in the truest sense. The Zensunni wanders that would become the Fremen got to the planet 3000 years before the first novel takes place. So hard to not call them indigenous by this point.

Yeah. Hell the movie made it even clearer than the original book.

They’re not indigenous or one race even. The film clearly shows this white savior is a dangerous, destructive, person.

It’s always funny when an ostensible “snarky pop culture writer” lacks the media literacy to even mock a movie effectively.