Obviously not every single disabled person has problems with Family Guy, but there is a sizable part of the community that thinks Seth MacFarlane is ableist, and makes particularly cruel jokes towards them. Again, I’m not judging either way, and I’m not disabled, I just know that that is A THING.

Wait, dude why are you talking on Fox News? no no no no no no

I will add that this will inevitably lead to a scrubbed up and idealized vision of the past. I often think so many white Gen Xers are so vulnerable to right wing propaganda because we were fed a steady diet of 1950s nostalgia that was created in the 1970s. No mention that Mrs. C. on Happy Days couldn’t get a credit…

No it doesn’t. Notice how the article points out (and the comment section largely reiterates) the outrage this is causing?

This is similar to the controversy surrounding that lawmaker who said “birthing people”. It’s not really a thing one person/group did/said something stupid with the best of intentions and were…

I understand the desire to update these stories so a new generation of kids aren’t reading about harmful stereotypes, but editing a dead author’s work is extremely gross and sets a terrible precedent. I don’t need “updated language” when I read an older book. Erasing the sins of the past is also a good way to avoid…

For me it wasn’t the cultural insensitivity of the costumes, it was 1) the lack of actual research into Mexican baking/pastry, which goes deeper than tortillas and conchas, and 2) the technical challenge being a cooking challenge. The topping proportions on those tacos were nuts, too.

There’s someone in my life who is in the middle of transitioning. When I found out I was a little confused, I had reservations and a lot of it didn’t make sense to me. But they seem happier, more confident, and just more open to the world than they did before they started. In general their life seems way better! I…

Why does she continually choose to die on this hill? If I see someone else making life choices that I don’t understand or agree with, but those decisions are making zero impact on my life, I just say “Huh. That’s weird.” and I move on with my day. Why can’t JK do that? Why can’t she just keep her opinions to herself?

Some people get into the limelight and it just RUINS them. They look out at a world that is suddenly interested in everything they have to say and they desperately try to make people happy, just giving more and more opinions until oops, an atomically bad take. And then the narcissism kicks in: I’m a famous person,…

One thing some people have said about her that I disagree with is the idea that the things she’s said and done in recent years means she was never a good person. It seems to me that until a few years ago she was arguably one of the most admired celebrities, and I think deservedly so. The drop in her reputation wasn’t…

In the current context, calling out Pfizer super vaguely without context doesn’t scream pro-vaccine.

To be fair, she’s tremendously talented, and he’s Zachary Levi.

he’s jew-ish

Can someone explain this to me in dumb-dumb terms? I’m legitimately interested but I cannot follow these articles. I need like, a firm and easy example of something to illustrate what would incite backlash.

*Timothées Chalamet

She has made it her personality.  Look at her Twitter feed, she wont shut up about trans people.  She thinks about trans people probably more then some trans people.

Yeah, but the problem with all the thousands upon thousands of ordinary people who disagree with Rowling is that none of them are rich celebrities, so Brain couldn’t care less if they get to voice their opinions.

“I think she’s entitled to her opinion, she’s entitled to say what she feels.”

Um, just to be clear, J.K. Rowling has never had her opinion silenced. She’s perfectly free to say whatever thing bops into her 100s-of-million-dollar brain. She has, and continues to do so.

The problem for her, Brian, is that people actually…

i know she’s a Bad Person, but we don’t talk enough about how, almost more importantly, she’s a Bad Actress. i’m so fucking glad i don’t have to see her in star wars anymore.

The delicious irony that even after getting in bed with right wing detritus, her new audience still thinks her too “woke” for their blood.