This is like the third article this week on the Mulaney/Munn thing that literally started with

I am absolutely okay with fans shipping and writing slash fics and such and agree that Mackies response is odd.

I think what Anthony Mackie is trying so unsuccessfully to say is that people seem desperate to find representation where none (intentionally, anyway) exists. And I somewhat agree with it. Overcorrection is a real and pervasive thing - whereas in past years, you couldn’t find positive representations of healthy…

No, it’s just a super fucking annoying ass trend. If you want to play a ship game, go to a furniture website and match some chairs and tables together instead.

I can sorta see multiple angles on this.

On the one hand, any artist forcefully rebutting why LGBTQ folk might see themselves in a TV-depicted relationship like the one between Bucky and Sam is going to reasonably get pushback. ESPECIALLY if you’re going to forcefully rebut an underdepicted minority group. And there’s…

“*Well as long as it’s not quite disturbing in context such as the continued common “ship” in the Harry Potter fandom where Hermione is commonly paired with Draco, the one who called her subhuman repeatedly, in a Dom-Sub relationship which obviously takes on even more sinister undertones when Hermione is depicted as a…

Because friendship is a thing that exists, and it’s pretty annoying how some people can’t look at friends in fiction and go “lol they must be fucking” like some assholes?

They grew to be best friends. Best friends act like best friends. Fans need to stop with all the low-brow “ship” meme bullshit.

He probably could’ve phrased it better, but I agree with the underlying sentiment 100%. It’s absurd that every male friendship gets distorted into a potential gay relationship, even when there’s no evidence beyond the relationship being just a male friendship. Happens with female friendships, too (see, e.g.,…

I mean yeah, people love to ship to fill in blanks and I can see that getting annoying if you’ve been asked about it over and over. Happens whether it’s a guy and a woman, two dudes or two women. Just another branch of fandom getting into its fanatical roots.

I’m not him (that you know of), but in re: your question:

I genuinely can’t wrap my mind around how so many seemingly intelligent writers actually, truly believe that this says anything at all about Ellie Kemper’s character. Just insane, the bubbles some people live in.

When I saw this trending on Twitter, I thought, “This is EXACTLY the type of story the current AV Club will write about without doing any work to put it into context.” So, yeah.

Kemper was 19 years old when she was selected to be the Queen Of Love And Beauty. At that age, teenagers are mature enough to know what they’re being part of.

You know, AVC, you can’t regularly call Twitter a shitty hell website and then give in to its worst tendencies constantly.

Was really hoping AVC wouldn’t report on this nonsense. But of course they did.

You guys have printed a fair amount of extraordinarily weak outrage-seeking shit over the past couple years, but this might take the cake. I rate this clickbait seven “UGH”s out of a possible five.

The AV Club needs fewer Vice and Buzzfeed hires. 

The Atlantic reported in 2014 that the Veiled Prophet Organization barred Black and Jewish people from joining.

I’m surprised AV Club went with this take when even the comments section of The Root went “Eh, this is stretching it.”