There was one line that I will always remember because it resonated with me and my family. The Conners just had their power turned off for lack of payment and Roseanne said, “Middle class was nice” As a family that had its power turned off on mulitple occasions it was a nice bit of reality.

And one who managed to be liberal while definitely understanding economic anxiety.

Oh, yeah, I forgot the union stuff.

Sure, why not, 45 and conservatives are so accepting of fat, old, outspoken women, and I can see why she would want to embrace them.

Roseanne Barr can fuck off.

Nah. Fuck her, and fuck everyone facilitating her getting a bigger platform and money for her hateful rhetoric. She has been a shitty person for a long time and has gotten louder and prouder about it the past couple of years. Let’s not normalize her beliefs and validate her followers.

I think it’s a great thing that The Color Purple is more closely associated with the black actors than the white director.

I adore Teri Garr. I knew her for years and I can tell you even at the height of her fame she was the most down to earth and congenial person. Absolutely no movie star pretense.

I’m of two minds about this. Okay, fair. But Steven Spielberg has found a formula that works for him. And that is a (mostly) white, male one.

No it’s not. But I think people forget how many movies he’s made. I don’t think Banks didn’t consider The Color Purple because Whoopi Goldberg is black, but because nobody remembers that he directs non-giant adventure movies or historical war movies. (Which is why Sugarland Express isn’t getting any play in this…

I’ve seen The Color Purple multiple times and even I forgot Steven Spielberg directed that one. It’s so closely associated with Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah Winfrey and blackness in general that the white director kinda gets forgotten, at least in the circles I’m in.

THANK YOU!!!!

However great the actresses and roles may be, they’re not the protagonists, they’re the”wife” characters.

Indeed! “oh he did do 1!” is not good. In fact I’d flip it around with “Oh yes, he did do that one. JUST the one. Out of how many dozens?”

Sugarland Express with Goldie Hawn, The Color Purple, The BFG has a female protagonist, and his upcoming The Papers with Meryl Streep.

#TeamBanks. The “white woman” stuff is a distraction from her main and very important point. Films starring women are chick flicks. The women in films have to be 10x as hot as the men, at every age. The persistent Bechdel failure in all genres down to the Muppet movies.

The point that Steven Spielberg directs far, far, far more movies about men than women seems fair.

Seriously? This is the hill we die on? What was meant to be a small token of support is turned into a point of outrage? Im sorry but the reason trump and his supporters continue to shit all over us is because we devote too much of our very limited resources to bullshit infighting in a hope to be wokest. Can we get…

Stop stealing my yearbook quote!

“...when shootings become part of my daily privileged life,” fixed that for you.