God I hate the term “popcorn flick”. What the fuck does that even mean? Does it mean you don’t care if the flick is actually good because it’s not meant to be, it’s just an f/x showcase where you can pass a summer afternoon and not remember what you just saw?

in our modern times “scary” seems to translate to gore.

What about Austin Stories? It was basically Portlandia a dozen or so years early.

How does “let’s examine the situation instead of immediately crucifying someone” translate to “I can’t believe they would be telling the truth” ?

But if she is lying, wouldn’t Depp then be the victim? How would anyone know the truth without being there. These are allegations, as in alleged.

A lot to unpack here. I mean, in a lot of ways, Depp is a bad example because he could never work again and still be rich beyond the dreams of avarice. He’s already made a dynastic fortune. If you apply that standard to a normal person you are condemning them to... I’m not sure what. Perpetual unemployment? Work as a…

As far as I can tell, anyone accused of anything at any point in their life should respond with an apology, a prompt retreat from society and a solemn vow never to work again. Maybe 2018 will be better.

I’m suggesting neither of those things. I’m making an explicit claim about the underlying reasoning propped up as an excuse in both cases.

Let me illustrated further... you’re explicitly claiming that statistics matter (women don’t usually lie about being victimized by men, a true statement)... so you would also say,…

Just so long as you realize that your rationalization is the same one used by the white men and women that, not so long ago, rallied to hang black men on false accusations of rape.

It’s not about getting the witch, it’s about advertising hatred of witches.

Remember: being offended and outraged is the new badge of being a “good person” these days. If you aren’t upset on someone’s behalf, you aren’t a good person. Umbrage is the new empathy.

Is the objection here that Depp continues to get work as an actor or that he gets work at all? Like, if Depp decided to become a salesperson at Macy’s, would we demand that Macy’s explain itself? Or if he opened a hedge fund? Or became a public school teacher? Or a trash collector?

I’ll just copy-paste my rebuttal to that point (it’s only a few sentences in from the sentence you quoted).

He’s a wizard, you dumbshit.

It’s almost surreal, almost pathological the degrees to which people will go to get their witch.

Maybe it’s more an issue of that the only evidence of the alleged crime is the accusation of his ex wife. It’s a pure he-said/she-said situation, so people that have known him a very long time may either find his word more credible than hers, and/or find the alleged crime so out character to their understanding of the…

If Amber dropped the issue - why is there outrage?

Wait... are people no longer innocent until proven otherwise, now? Yates is making a rather simple statistical claim about the veracity of multiple claims of wrong doing as weighed against a single claim of wrong doing. The presumption of innocence necessarily implies some level of skepticism regarding claims made on…

So because there are “allegations” Depp should no longer be allowed to work? Maybe he can work but only in films that the mob allows but only after we punish him. Destroying people’s lives and reputations over “allegations” is so commonplace now it’s scary.

So, let me get this straight, Depp and Heard settled their divorce and each have moved on, but a bunch of people who have absolutely nothing to do with the situation and who the situation has no personal effect on do not feel sated, and as such the issue is not resolved until some form of public mob shaming is done to…