Isn’t this exactly what Curtis is saying as quoted at the end of the article or am I missing something?

Tilda Swinton is in Michael Clayton for 18 mins of a 120 mins film and got the Oscar.

It really sucks that we’ve reached the point where “we all” is however many super-online weirdos are outraged on Twitter. I heard about this story on Jezebel and honestly could not have overreacted less. So speak for yourselves and stop pretending “everyone” means “anyone.”

“Wellesley was founded on the then-radical idea that educating women of all socioeconomic backgrounds leads to progress for everyone. As a college and community, we continue to challenge the norms and power structures that too often leave women, and others of marginalized identities, behind.”

Perhaps I’m misunderstanding things, but it seems like the term “transphobia” is mostly misplaced here. The issue seems to be what it means to be a women’s college in 2023. Looking at Smith’s policy (my kid will likely apply next fall), they accept all applicants who identify as female, which includes cis women, trans…

While I don’t agree with any of her bullshit and think she’s a harmful quack...I disagree that she looks “old and tired.” She’s 50, she’s always been very thin and she rarely wears makeup—she looks like a 50 year old woman. When she does wear makeup, she looks glowing and gorgeous. Like her or not, I don’t think…

There is absolutely no reason why the two are mutually exclusive. It’s like saying we can’t regulate restaurants because there are starving children out there.

The sauce is called buffalo sauce. Therefore calling chicken wings coated in buffalo sauce “buffalo wings” makes perfect sense. Nothing confusing about that.

Well, there was also that entire part where he supported the Gamergate movement unironically, because he genuinely thought they were actually about ethics in gaming journalism.

You do know that the Luddites were objectively correct, right?

They weren’t anti technology. They feared the harms of technology being used to replace peoples labour, and concentrate wealth into fewer and fewer hands. (https://locusmag.com/2022/01/cory-doctorow-science-fiction-is-a-luddite-literature/)

Yeah, hate to break it to you, but Disney using the Oscars to promote itself “caught on” a while ago. Remember last year when they just didn’t have room for eight categories yet were able to devote an entire segment to performing a song that wasn’t even submitted, much less nominated, complete with cringeworthy Megan…

Excuse me. This popcorn chicken contains 0% popcorn. I demand satisfaction!

oh i loved tar and i thought blanchett was robbed haha. wasn’t unhappy to see yeoh win, though, she was the best part of that movie.

Yes, but you have to get very close to see them.

I get that a lot of people wanted Angela Bassett to win, but calling out Jamie Lee Curtis’ win as “nepobaby-ism” is just an insane complaint. I would bet that over half of the Academy voters couldn’t even name one of JLC’s parents, let alone both. And she’s 64 and never had an Oscar-worthy role before this. Even if…

Re Hugh Grant. Vanity Fair and “Graham assumed he meant the magazine, or perhaps the Oscar party it throws every year, but it wasn’t clear whether Grant meant it in either way.”

I think the strangled cries of Racism are going to be a harder sell this year, but keep fighting the good fight.

Absolutely. Whoopi deserved the Oscar; so did Spielberg, for that matter. But your personal beef is spot-on. 1998 was surely the very worst Oscars; friggin’ Titanic took nearly everything from LA Confidential and yeah, Helen Hunt, while giving the best performance of her career, was still nowhere near HBC.

It’s a weird troll who impersonates the real Dr. Lizardo - they’ve been at it for years

Sorry but this has already happened several times already. It will give us maybe 5 minutes of schadenfreude but will it change the situation we have found ourselves in? No, we’re long since past shaming or pointing out their screaming hypocrisy as a deterrent to their ghoulish plans.