Yes, because a bit of (understandable if not justified) hyperbole is really equivalent to perpetuating harmful stereotypes about vulnerable disabled people.

... he probably would’ve been really disappointed to discover how disproportionately many African-Americans drown - due to the lack of swimming education in more deprived areas?

You really trust a film to give it even a modicum of that much nuance? I mean, the hidden implication there anyway is that “autism + abuse = evil” (which is already super troubling), but the Snyderverse doesn’t inspire me with confidence in its ability to handle anything with subtlety.

Oh god, please don’t make him autistic again. I mean, yeah, we’re under-represented in the media, but portraying a villain who’s evil because he’s autistic pretty much amounts to a hate crime against a very vulnerable group.

Probably my final thing, but I felt this needed saying ‘cos I’m seeing traces of this come up in the comments:

OK, so more while I’m on a roll:

Here’s some “don’t”s from my most nightmare set of messages:

From the Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C Clarke:

I always thought there was something up with the trench run - the exhaust port trench ends in a wall, but the equatorial trench is continuous, and therefore doesn’t have any “end” to it. I always assumed it was a goof on the part of the film makers, but it’s cool to see that this feature was actually shown correctly…

I always find the race thing here super interesting. My family’s from Hong Kong, and so there was always a rice cooker around when I was growing up - when I was seven or eight years old, my grandmother bought me a rice cooker that I still use twenty years later.

I use so many different kinds of shoes for workouts. For gym/weights stuff, I invested in a pair of Adidas Powerlift 2s, which were not prohibitively expensive (but pretty useless for running or walking any real distance in, so make sure you’re keen on weightlifting before splashing out). They seem to do the job…

So a bit like Infinity Blade? It played around a bit with some perma-death ideas (standard fights gave you the option to retry the fight or to make the death permanent, boss fights required you to win first time or the death was permanent). The second game introduced the feature that death was required to unlock new…

Man, what a way to ruin an expensive car. The tattoo’s alright, but the car looks like someone’s freehanded it on in Sharpie...

I always forget to reply to these things until it’s too late.

I certainly wouldn’t want to panic you, and this is a completely anecdotal and non-expert account by all means, but medical experts do occasionally mistake actual tumours for cysts. I had a small lump (about the size of a large bean) on the back of my head that caused me pain from time to time, and it took seven years…

I think for once they’ve skipped that rule of thumb - the film doesn’t seem to have gotten as much promotion as you’d expect from something with this budget.

Yeah, that CGI isn’t great, is it?

If I have any regrets, it is that I have but one star to give this post.

Yeah, let’s be honest - $125m is Marvel movie money, and even if this hadn’t been released in the January slump, it was unlikely to ever make that money back. Not sure whose head this is gonna fall on, but someone’s is gonna roll.

It seems like this is a film that was only thrown out in January to try and make a quick buck, recoup whatever minimal budget it probably had...