And when did I say that? Was it the first time I said that Shakespeare’s plays are diverse and we can’t generalize from one, providing examples of how silly that would be? Or was it the 2nd time I did the exact same thing?

Is this a joke? People come here to shit on stuff they don’t like all the time. Some can articulate their reasons; some can’t be bothered; some can’t be bothered to articulate their reasons, but can be bothered to spend more of their precious time calling others names and telling them to shut up.

Huh? What does that have to...?

It’s OK to point out the problem with a modern (American) lens. And how some people can’t even bring themselves to acknowledge the American-ness of it. You don’t have to participate.

It’s OK to point out the problem with a modern (American) lens. And how some people can’t even bring themselves to acknowledge the American-ness of it. You don’t have to participate.

I’m sorry, are you under the impression you’re providing some sort of history lesson?

Actually, I’m surprised at how many upvotes I’m getting. I felt confident in my point before reading your comment and I feel more confident now that I know you’d rather I stop making it. Please keep saying that.

Because you’re expecting them to write for your particular society. Them not specifying race was not an oversight or a sign of, to use a stupendously inappropriate word, privilege. It’s a worldwide literary standard in racially uniform societies, like the sort most of them lived in. It’s provincial that you think…

A problem for who exactly? A future time in (for many of them) a different country? They wrote for their own societies and they owed nothing to yours.

They didn’t pick “Othello,” they picked “Romeo and Juliet,” so that’s what I talked about. The so-called implication is you putting words in my mouth. When I refer to a play, I’m making a point about that play, not the author’s entire work. Or do you think I’m implying that “Hamlet” and “Julius Caesar” and “Richard…

The cover they had planned shows the monster, not his creator. Victor Frankenstein is not distinctive-looking enough to be worth the cover anyway.

Maybe, and I know this may sound preposterous, all those authors who weren’t 21st century Americans can’t be judged as if they were 21st century Americans. Trying to discern racial politics in the lack of racial descriptions in a play (which is all dialogue anyway) set in Medieval Italy and meant to be performed in…

He’s specified as having yellow, nearly transparent skin.

But then it wouldn’t be a new Bond at all. It would just be another film with whatever the character’s name is. (It’s “Nomi,” apparently.) And there’s no appetite for that, since they’re going to have a new Bond in the next film anyway.

There’s so little diversity at the BAFTAs they even made Sam Mendes change his last name.

Oh, I’m not saying anyone should be dumping on Taxi Driver. I’m saying it’s worthy of a bit of inquiry that more people aren’t, given the shitstorm in a teacup over Joker. And the only reasons I can think of why Scorsese’s classic doesn’t seem to have caught any leftover flak are cowardice and ignorance. Admittedly,…

The Batman who’s somehow fighting Darkseid is silly. (They’re all silly to some degree, but I’m grading on a curve.) But the Batman who ought to be getting it on with Wonder Woman is fun.

He’s so famous they named the 2nd largest city in Pennsylvania after him. Don’t act like you don’t know who he is.

Bread Poot. Good friends with Jurj Clooners.

My left nut is more spiritual, and I’m an atheist.