But this isn’t a Mexican movie, it’s an American movie set in New York city and that’s the context under which this discussion stems... and in America the concept of “passing” has a long history and is used rather literally to refer to someone who would, in fact, pass for a white person if they tried.

Sky writing seems like a pretty stressful job.  You can’t just hit “backspace” if you make a typo.

I don’t think that’s even accurate to begin with. But her in a room with three blonde valley girls and she would absolutely stick out.

BTS is basically a boy band, they’re basically running a slightly updated version of the old Backstreet Boys playbook.

But he made Layla...

This video isn’t much better at defining or explaining CRT than most of the Republicans using it as a boogieman. In fact the whole conflation or CRT and the 1619 Project has been a pretty big misconception in general, as CRT isn’t really a branch of history it’s a branch of social science and legal studies that is far…

I’m decidedly of the opinion that the first Hunger Games movie is easily the best of the series.  Yeah, the camerawork is less pretty, but it has the cleanest plot structure and the series hadn’t run out of ideas yet.  Catching Fire’s “tournament of champions” concept mostly just felt like an excuse to do all the…

Not sure I’d call Tulsi Gabbard someone with a colorful personality... honestly I never really understood what her “thing” was. Her brand seemed to be “the Democrat for paranoid conspiracy theorists / dictator apologists” which is kind of an odd Venn diagram.

MoviePass is what happens when an industry gets so obsessed with market share and data collection that the forget to even think about the basic concept of profit and loss.

They didn't pay her to write for them... or write at all. It was an unpaid TV appearance.

They weren’t discovered by the Teen Vogue people, they were discovered two years earlier (and apologized for two years earlier), by non-Asians looking to bring her down a peg for questioning a man who threatened her.

These tweets were first surfaced by (non-Asian) misogynists trying to call her a hypocrite for having called out Charles Barkley after he literally threatened violence against her in a “joke.” It was extremely bad faith, and that hate campaign was the only reason people knew about this in the first place. Several…

Because those “expressions of anti-Asian racism” were in obscure tweets from a decade ago, weren’t ideological in nature, were plainly dug up in a bad faith attempt to smear them, she had already apologized for them before and apologized for them after and clearly didn’t still harbor the same feelings, and because if…

Does Gina Carano still have an acting career?  I mean, someone somewhere will presumably hire her to make some kind of shitty Kevin Sorbo movie or something, but she’s presumably been deemed unemployable by Disney (who are kind of a big deal these days) and the stink of the scanadal will likely make most movie studios…

I would argue that in the case of an actor like Mel Gibson, whose acting career was largely based around being a likable and charming screen presence, there is a certain logic to them being more affected by being exposed as a decidedly terrible person in their real lives and that such “cancellations” are less a matter…

It’s like that AVClub article that tried to say that Kevin Spacey having a cameo in an Italian movie was “proof” that cancel culture wasn’t real when it would seem to me that him being reduced to such a meager role and it being a newsworthy event is in fact proof that (in that case probably rightly) people absolutely…

I’m not one to watch Fox News or read Breitbart, so the version of “cancel culture” that looms largest in my orbit is the kind of cancel culture that the Harper’s Letter was talking about; namely people being driven out or marginalized by liberal institutions like Universities or Newspapers for holding heterodox…

That is kind of the thing about these “cancel culture doesn’t exist” things... usually when people say that what they actually seem to mean is either “cancel culture does exist but it’s good actually” or “cancel culture should exist but it isn’t as effective as I want it to be.”  I think a lot of them are kind of…

You... might not want to look up Jimmy Stewart’s actual politics.

Here’s the thing about Pez dispensers: the candy they dispense sucks.