Except the weather.

As others have said, there’s a lot to ridicule Reagan about without including a disease that hits close to home for millions of Americans. He absolutely deserves to be mocked for many of the things he’s done...but suffering from Alzheimer’s isn’t one of the, imo.

You do understand this issue isn’t really about Ronald Reagan, right? It’s about not making fun of a particularly heartbreaking disease.

I feel you, but this seems like a “don’t make fun of Ann Coulter because she’s a woman, make fun of her because she’s a pathetic excuse for a human being” kind of thing. It’s not about protecting Reagan so much as guarding against hypocrisy. Like, I’m all about a movie making fun of Reagan for non-Alzheimer’s reasons.

There’s so much to mock about that damn fool Reagan without mocking his Alzheimer’s. And the man deserves a savage mocking.

It’s so hard to raise your arms in lace sleeves, though.

MIA lived in the US (at one point in Brooklyn, no less) for some time, has traveled aplenty around these parts and is working within the context of a black American art form whose cultural and political history she regularly claims to know well.

Funnily, I just realised that as an Australian there is perhaps no greater existential insult to our identity than to be beaten to the punch in voting out the monarchy, by the British themselves.

As an Australian; all this just makes me want to referendum ourselves into a Republic post haste.

“But maybe a few of these people were just angling for a slice of the cake made by Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain.”

And it often becomes a case of ‘do we really know that?’ How many Asian led films are aggressively promoted and supported like other white led films? How often do actors of color get to inhabit roles that aren’t historical or biographical? So on and so forth. The whole, ‘nobody would go see it’ is an excuse.

Just not true. That’s assuming the worst of Americans - they watched the hell out of Pacific Rim. And we’re talking about the lead here, not the entire cast. This property has a huge fan base and it’s turning them off from seeing it now. Also, since the US film industry relies heavily on foreign pre-sales, and there…

I must have missed the part where she asked you to be sympathetic to her plight. Can you refresh my memory and point it out?

She didn’t say it to tell other people to do what she did. I could understand the proletarian ‘fuck the rich’ resentment if she were writing a self-help book and claiming to be just an average gal with the secret to success, but she’s not. She’s just relating her experience. And sure, she comes from privilege, but not…

Right?! Like, “I celebrated my love in this super ahead of it’s time OG hipster way and now anyone that tries to do that is posing and anyone that doesn’t try to do that is a Scrooge McDuck evil rich person who doesn’t truly understand love”.

Hey, I used to teach at Tulane, the VAST majority of the students are not from Louisiana, but from New Jersey, Ohio, Massachusetts, etc.

You are quite literally discounting racism when you say “That really shouldn’t be an issue in Toronto malls.” And I think the whole ‘but Toronto is progressive and multicultural’ argument is naive: there are still plenty of racist people (and generally ‘not racist’ people who still hold unconscious biases) in even the…

No it is how you usually role, but Canadians tend to ignore or downplay it. This is not first story like this to come out of Canada and it will not be the last. There was a just a study done about retail and racism in Canada and most have dealt with racism when shopping or trying out for a job.

Really? How shocked are you really? You do realize Toronto is racist as fuck, right? Don’t let your OVO shades fool ya, Ms. Thing.

Racist invasive management is pretty Canadian.