I am a vegan.

People are so desperate to accept predator accomplices they will accept the promise of crumbs, even when the guarantor has a history of failing to deliver.

I was being snarky because women have been underpaid for non-union jobs forever in Hollywood.

Well then, let’s wait and find out whether they’ve learned something and decided to change before pre-emptively calling them allies, imperfect or otherwise.

Oh for fuck’s sake. “Ok great?” No need to build trust or establish credibility first, just “ok great” because every ally is a good ally.

People are out here acting like these two weren’t protecting Casey Affleck just last awards season, and like Matt Damon wasn’t out here like 1 minutes ago talking about MeToo witch hunts and asking why we don’t talk more about the non-rapists in the industry.

You are a white woman, aren’t you?

Yeah remember when white people helped elect Barack and then they were like “SEE WE’RE POST-RACIAL” and then some other white people were like “fuck that dude... TRUMP TRAIN!!!” and then in-between that were vigilante killings, cops killing kids, and they were all getting away with it? And decades before that white…

the worst case scenario

everything to do with being rational and using a person’s past behavior to predict their current and future behavior.

They are now.

neither of these men have ever been allies.

Don’t do this.

I mean...maybe? I don’t think it’s jumping on someone’s past actions to bring up things that they’ve done that directly contradict a change they say the are making. Especially since, with Damon specifically, this is not the first time he’s given lip service to the idea of being more inclusive in hiring practices...he…

This is a really good point and very well put. And very rational. I also don’t see an inherent conflict between what you and Flowerdoula are saying. She says: (a) It doesn’t make sense to jump on people’s past failures in the exact moment they’re doing something right, and (b) It doesn’t make sense to set an…

Yeah, no. They are not my team mate.

yeah, as a jew, i’d definitely at least take a beat and make some conditions before accepting said nazi.

They haven’t really done anything yet. They’ve just said plan on doing something for good PR. Let’s wait to give them a handshake to see what consistent actions they take moving forward.

I literally cannot tell if you are joking because (1) that is a completely different situation and (2) I absolutely would not be like, “okay great.” I’d be like, “Umm...no offense, but you hated me two minutes ago so I’m going to need to some time and you’re going to need to do some things to prove to me that you…

I think it’s more that Affleck somehow seems to have gotten away with all that he did. How the hell did that happen? This is literally the luckiest man alive.