Not for nothing, but if she used her own eggs, after years of infertility, that IS hard work. Not “carry a baby for approximately 9mos” hard work but “having to undergo IVF multiple times to ensure that at least ONE egg is fertilized” hard work. Different, but not necessarily wrong.

And you must be the type of person who can’t take any sort of criticism. That’s unfortunate. Therapy can help.

I offered a fun fact about the relationship between MJ and Diana and you’re...mad about it? Who said anything about a thesis? Why are you so defensive? I mean, I’m sorry that I know more information than you or, at the very least, I can Google. Relax, dude. It’s really not that deep.

Matt Damon literally played Matt Damon in space. He hasn’t turned out a solid performance in years (Promised Land was good and so was True Grit) and the fact that people thought his work in The Martian was award worthy is a joke. Eddie Redmayne’s performance was mediocre, but so was his performance for Theory of…

Diana Ross is the godmother of Michael’s children, so....

I actually disagree with those examples, even if your broader point is valid. Kanye basically called her a hoe, so her doing “porn-star” sex acts like titty-fucking or sucking his dick is still him in power because “that’s what hoes do”. Putting a finger in an asshole is about showing comfort and vulnerability, so…

It’s not even that. I’m Black and I’ve had to witness over my short-ish life the flagrant whitewashing of several characters, both fictional and real. The excuse that “well, they look like [person here] because of [physical traits here], so it’s not that bad” is a bullshit one and I’m tired of hearing it.

Michael bleached his skin. This is a fact. But he was still a Black man. Having a white man playing a Black man who’s skin is whitened is still very much gross. It would only be like Dave Chappelle playing Chuck Taylor or the Wayans Bros in White Chicks if Joseph was a Black dude. He is not. He is a white man. And I…

YES. MA’AM. It’s really gross.

What people aren’t really recognizing is how Jessica’s betrayal of Luke fits into the show’s problem with Black men. Both Luke and Malcolm, though fully realized characters, are not treated with any sort of dignity, especially by Jessica. She uses the both of them for her own aims and that’s gross as hell. Yeah, it…

Evan Ross. I find this all to be very interesting. So, albino Black people should also be played by white people because of skin color? That’s the logical conclusion from everybody pointing out that Michael has literal white skin. Nevermind the fact that Michael never hated being Black and was quite upset when Pepsi…

Yeah, she’s supposedly developing a biopic with HBO, which is cool b/c HBO Films tend to to really well with Black biopics. But it’ll probably take forever b/c HBO is notoriously slow. And, y’all are right: if Tubman was a white dude, there would have been a whole bunch of movies, miniseries, etc about her.

I didn’t stutter. A LIGHTSKIN BLACK MAN SHOULD BE PLAYING AN ACTUAL BLACK MAN. Prosthetics exist.

You could cast a lightskinned Black man. It’s not difficult.

Tbh, I don’t think they aren’t needed. I’m just emotionally exhausted by them.

I don’t think Will and Jada look petty. Slightly opportunistic, but, quite frankly, that’s everyone who hasn’t really spoken up much until this moment, so I’m not about to rag on them for that. Who has the time, tbh.

Ya know, I hate slave narrative movies as much as the next person, but there are some stories that need to be told and Nat Turner’s rebellion has always been one of those for me. Also, Harriet Tubman, but Viola’s got that one on lock, and I’m also excited for that. And I’m also soooo glad that a Black filmmaker is…

Well, because she’s a white woman. It wasn’t an assumption as much as it was reading her actual language. She, again, was making a generalization and not considering any nuance in her statement. She should’ve been clearer, but such is life. Using a point that focuses on racism to say “But what about sexism!?” is…

The problem is she, like many white women, failed to understand how intersections are important in these conversations. By essentially pitting women against African Americans (and not every Black person is African American but we won’t get into that), she basically left out how Hollywood treats Black women, which is…

The movie itself wasn’t great, though it was highly entertaining. The performances by the cast were great, though. I mean, if the Danish Girl can get nominated for anything, then so can Straight Outta Compton. And The Danish Girl wasn’t even that entertaining. It was just Oscar bait bullshit. Eh.