Bob’s Burgers has done some women voicing men/boys. Sarah Silverman and her sister do Andy and Ollie.

In an ideal world, it doesn't matter. But we don't live in an ideal world, so having voice actors reflect the race of their characters matters entirely because it creates opportunities for those actors.

I disagree with you, because I think we’re reached this point in the conversation for a reason. But, apart from that I’d rather go to the vicious cycle point: there’s no asian star in the states big enough to open Ghost in the Machine so they hire ScarJo...so then there’s no asian star in the states big enough to open…

I get that point, but casting and creation isn’t done in isolation of all the cultural biases. And also while the final product is the most visible, the whole process is pressured, that’s the writers and execs as well as the cast as well as the characters. There isn’t an “objective” casting so many corrective process…

It’s inaccurate to say women have voiced men; as you note immediately after, they usually voice boys. Sure, have them voice adult male characters.

I have never heard a Taylor Swift song before this morning, when a friend recommended folklore to me based on my interest in indie folk and Americana.

I thought ‘The Simpsons’ animation style was fairly inoffensive; not necessarily beautiful, but okay to look at. And ‘Steven Universe’ has a very pleasant aesthetic, even if some of the characters are drawn to be sort of unattractive. (Greg’s no oil painting.)

I love that anytime he’s on an animated show, you can immediately tell which character is voiced by Jason Mantzoukas just by looking at it. Doesn’t matter if it’s a man, a kid, a bear, whatever. They’ve always got the look.

I don’t know, have they tried painting Black Lives Matter on the ground?

Given what people know about Sacha Baron Cohen, and his well publicized gimmicks and how he despises the right-wing, it should be taken as clever trolling.

The hospital was inefficient!

Adam Devine is the least talented person in Holl...you know what, no. Adam Devine is the least talented anything ever of all time. Just, how? HOW!?

Apparently crummy movie notwithstanding, Stewart’s run on The Daily Show was legitimately brilliant. But he was always prone to the old American satirist’s fallacy of the “common sense solutions.” There are clear answers to our biggest problems, and they’re not ideological or partisan, and we could pass them in a…

As far as making jokes about Trump being tough is concerned, I will once again say that John Mulaney nailed it with “Horse Loose in a Hospital”. It avoids all the usual tiny-hand, orange-skin jokes and zeroes in on the pure absurdity not just of, as he puts it, “this guy being president”, but on everyone else trying…

not even Jack’s daughter and the conscience of the movie, Diana (Mackenzie Davis), to whom Zimmer takes a potentially redemptive romantic interest

It’s the classic perils of blindcasting: creates the appearance of diversity, but with the consequence of failing to interrogate how a predominantly white, wealthy suburb of Atlanta is so nonchalant about race. And again, it might not have been as frustrating if the pilot hadn’t been underlining how Victor sat outside…

It was pretty big news at the time, so the idea that people actually in his same industry didn’t know doesn’t exactly fly. And hell, they even happily brought him back for the 2019 movie, so they had a second (34th?) chance to drop a really non-essential character and a really shitty person but didn didn’t.

Deadwood is…

Most of the people that worked on it are only paid once and do not get residuals. For those that do get ongoing compensation, one episode is just a tiny fraction of the overall payout for streaming an entire series run.