No. I hate this sentiment. Pence is more mannered. Libs, you got to wake up. MANNERS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH POWER. Pence is even more anti-woman than Trump. I think Trump is disgusting too, but we should be disgusted by the misogyny and patriarchy and not by the lack of decorum.

Vomit. This guy is just so gross. Ugh it makes me want to put on a big baggy overcoat and hide.

OK... Really if it’s important to see things from someone else’s point of view (and it may not be in politics, who knows) there’s something you should consider before you think Republicans are going to jump ship. I mean, seriously, if any of you are interested in trying to see it from a different perspective, just…

“Quite frankly if someone in my family died doing something this stupid I’d probably miss them, but I’d be more angry than sad. I also wouldn’t expect anyone else to feel sad about it.”

I think it’s sad. We don’t only extend compassion and empathy to people who consistently think clearly and make good choices. I’m capable of compassion for arrogant people, reckless people, stupid people, etc. Aren’t you? I’ve also lived in the world long enough to know that humble people, cautious people and…

You know the coverage of this bothers me almost as much as the proposed law. Yes it’s super shitty that rapists would have any say, but the fact that we have to go there to show how shitty the law is disturbs me. It’s shitty that a woman would need ANY man’s permission- be it an anonymous fun hookup or a beloved long…

Yes, but I’m saying that this discussion (valid in itself) is basically irrelevant to the casting of characters in widely known children’s stories made by Disney. This is something that they’d discuss when casting an action movie or a romcom, but not a live-action kid’s tale from the other side of the world. And we…

Only it’s not an Arab story. Sorry. That’s just not true. In fact there is probably nothing about it that’s Arab other than the fact that the Western title of the compilation in which it appears is “1001 Arabian Nights”. Otherwise, the story is not probably not Arab in origin, and it’s definitely not Arab in…

Yes I agree about that. But these stories are different since their fantasy in the first place and not set in any real place or time. Yes it’s really shitty when industry casts people from a totally different place / ethnicity when telling a modern story with a real time and place, especially when the actor doesn’t…

I think they want someone younger mostly. Also most very successful Bollywood stars are accustomed to a totally different kind of work schedule and technique, and they might not want to take the role even if offered. A young breakout star though, someone just starting out in Bollywood or aspiring to- that should be…

Look that is all true. That can be true AT THE SAME TIME as it’s true that casting a non-white person in a well-known children’s tale set on the other side of the planet will not have any effect on its box office success. One film is not exactly like another, and well-known children’s stories made by Disney are a…

I see what you mean about emotional feelings about it, but legally, they have a passport that says United Kingdom of Great Britain on it and they are British legally. It’s wrong to try to make calling them British the same as calling them English- the two are not analogous. They are legally British- it is their…

Um, if you are Scottish or Welsh, you definitely are British. You just aren’t English. Ireland is not a part of Great Britain.

Well no. He’s actually from China in the story. But “China” included Central Asia and was just used as a stand-in for “a galaxy far, far away”. And the Arabic version of the compilation of 1001 Tales is mostly a translation of a Persian source that is itself a compilation of folk tales from India, Central Asia and the…

Yea I think that’s probably their justification for it and I’m sure they really believe that. But Aladdin does not need to attract an audience to it in the same way that an unknown story might need. It’s a well-known kid’s story about magic that will be produced by Disney, so the audience is already there. People are…

Oh I see. That makes more sense. She might have shown them her govt ID and only then did it click in the officer’s mind why the plates were coming up blank. Got it, thanks.

OK, I’m not an expert in this stuff but I have a collection of 1,001 Nights and it states that the compilation of the stories happened over hundreds of years and included compilations by Westerners who added folk tales that had not yet been written down which is different than saying they were made up by the writer.…

Hold up. I get what you are saying, but the subcontinent is a really diverse place with a very wide range of physical features, and basically the entire northern half of the subcontinent was run by the same Mughal Empire that included the Middle East, so there is quite a bit of shared ethnicity, language and culture…

To be fair, mostly, Bollywood actors do not sing. They mostly lip synch to professional musicians. But yes of course they all dance. Also movies in India are filmed in a very different way, so it might be more difficult to find someone really famous in India who wants to spend the months or year on schedule just…

Oh yeah I agree, obviously the cops pull you over more when they think you are poor, and more when they think you are poor and black, and even more if they think you are poor and black and in the wrong neighborhood, and also a helluva a lot if they think you are black and not poor because they can’t comprehend it. I’m…