You’re totally right. And every review by a woman I’ve ever read said ‘men like Seth Rogan are fucking awful and let’s stop celebrating that’. 

I like how it doesn’t even occur to you that some of us could have grown up really not liking the kids who did a lot of coke and prioritized going to the beach and partying.

Yeah Bryant is a monster. So was Bowie. I just don’t understand why Jezebel is so fond of one of those monsters.

How about noting that she’s an idiot and her whole family are vapid and built a career out of exhibiting narcissism? The argument has always been that she’s clearly not dumb because she’s super successful, but there are an endless number of men we all agree are both rich and dumb.

I agree. Until now it has not been obvious that they are vapid, stupid, self-centered rich children who don’t care about anything other than socialite life and money. That is a new development in the history of the Kardashians. 

I especially liked “a guy I dated who ran a podcast and now is CEO of something” when there’s exactly one guy she dated who fits that description. It’s like if I said “a website I posted on today that’s named after a biblical woman and has a love-hate relationship with Grimes”.

They literally think women should be bible-era subservient. They aren’t considering whether a woman might lie; they just hate women. 

I agree. Literally no woman in history has ever lied except for the ones we know that did (because women are also human, subject to the imperfection of all mortals, and even though systemic abuses and thousands of years of sexism mean that assault and rape are grossly under-reported and under-acknowledged, it is still…

I mean. The Wall was written by Chinese people in China and directed and produced by Chinese people in China. Maybe going over to China as a white man and lecturing them on how they should represent themselves would be uh....less than racially sensitive. Then again, white progressives in America had no problem…

This country is going to die arguing about Russia as China takes over, crying that more tv personalities won’t take over governance.

Oh. Last comment here, but Hazel is wholly wrong in lumping Beattrix Kiddo in as harmed because she’s a woman: that’s a transliteration of a trope common to wuxia movies with or without female leads. Beattrix’s having been near-destroyed is in homage to wuxia characters. It’s understandable Hazel doesn’t know anything…

And (sorry for multiple replies), it is always the case that white women come before black. So a principle framed as ‘celebrate the victories’ will always just mean ‘celebrate white women getting a win and don’t yell too loudly about black women being left out’. That’s all it means. There is a hierarchy to how…

I’m not, for example, arguing that every movie has to upend the entire capitalist hierarchy and be about a queer disabled trans black woman. I’m saying if you have a movie about America and no black people are in it, you failed to meet a minimum.

We’re arguing over what’s too many goal posts. I say acknowledging black people exist and women exist is not too many. Doing only one of those is not, as you called it, a victory. It is a failure to hit the bare minimum.

Strategy is great, I share Nora Morse’s and your disdain for privileging purity over good activism.

But this is America. Your movie should have black people because America has black people. It’s not a hard goal post.

All my other comments are sarcastic, but to be sincere for a second - well said.

We haven’t even gotten started, bud. What about ableism? In about 2 years there will be a new generation of angry revolutionaries who need a reason to scorn the progressives of a generation above them. The fact that this generation is producing very close to zero movies about people who face ability challenges might…

I’d say there goes his career but...

Hazel makes an excellent point. Certainly when we say that the Jewish artistic outlook was incredibly, fundamentally impacted by the Holocaust, what we’re really doing is saying that art happens to us Jews, that we Jews don’t make it. All things in the universe flow in exactly, and narrowly, one direction - the…

That’s right! I will continue to criticize movies for not prominently featuring real female characters, since I’m a woman, but I’m not black so I’ll be damned if I accept that “but there are no black people with actual people roles in this movie” is a valid criticism.