Yeah, it’s probably worth noting that a movie like this could never, ever get made in the first place unless someone with Johansson’s level of celebrity signed on to do it. Which is a different, but related issue, which revolves around Hollywood being terrified of taking chances on any story that’s outside of their…

Yeah, to me the weirdest thing isn’t casting a cis actor. It’s casting a gorgeous, skinny 33 year old actor to play an overweight person who was in their 50's and 60's when most of the events in this film took place.

I wouldn’t be as confused if Kathy Bates or Sandy Martin (lesser known character actor played the trans…

Get out of here with your rational take on the matter!

I’m gonna get a lot of flack for this but my take is Scarlett Johansson is conventionally attractive and a bonefide star, proven as a lead capable of carrying a movie?

I have a number of issues with Scar Jo playing this character. One is with the fact cisgender actors often play transgendered characters and the other is with the fact the trans man Scar Jo is playing was fat in real life. It feels doubly insulting to cast a cisgender, thin actress in this part.

Gibson was also well known for his homophobia so as much as I love Foster’s acting talent, her relationship with Gibson also makes me look at her pride statements with suspicion.

I understand Jodie comes from a place of having to keep your mouth shut to be safe and make your coins. I really have to wonder if that’s all that’s at play though when she’s clearly past the point of necessity. She seems very content to keep her head down which is her choice but it also means I choose to not care…

Says the woman besties with Mel, works for Woody and Roman. Yuck. She never met a misogynist she didn’t love.

I’m still mad at Jodie for being so obtuse that night. She could’ve helped so many people by saying yes I am a lesbian.

Yeah, I have a hard time listening to her opinion on #MeToo knowing that she considers a woman-beating, rape threatening, child abusing, racist cretin to be a “dear friend”.

Why can't Jodie turn to her longtime BFF and local bigot and misogynist Mel Gibson and ask him how the men got here? I bet he knows. 

Jodie has always been problematic when it comes to gay issues, women’s issues etc. Sad to see none of that has changed. 

“Most stories about Bourdain’s will have called out the $1.2 million figure as considerably less than they’d expected, to which I’d like to comment, “Let’s not.”

Yes. Pointing to how “things have always been done” doesn’t mean they were the right thing to do morally or-since that’s what really matters in Hollywood-financially.

The weird thing about making movies is that they are expensive to make and the people who front the money for them expect to get the money back. Ideally with some extra money on top! That’s one of the reasons why some actors are paid more than others. They draw an audience to the box office! There’s a good chance that…

There’s like a 0% chance that the dudes will ever see that money, so pretty much everyone gets screwed over.

I wouldn’t worry too much. They’ll have to get in line behind all the other creditors. The odds of the money ever materializing are so low that I wonder why they bothered to sue at all. Maybe they had lawyers on retainer with nothing else to do.

There are no winners. Just kidding. Except for the Lawyers of course, the lawyers always win.

Why bother suing? They won’t even be paid with this kind of money.

Good luck collecting on that judgment.