I think young activists fall into a trap of vehemently insulting people and then wondering why those people don’t become allies. There’s an expectation that people should be willing to endure hazing and meanness before being welcomed to the progressive side of things, even though no mentally and socially healthy…

I think the focus on America in a vacuum is odd. America had slavery for longer as a British colony than as an independent nation. Columbus was Italian and sailing for Spain. We have to reckon with the lasting impact on real people for sure (because we are upholding those systems), but I don’t understand this…

I hate to agree with you, but here’s your star.

After all of the drama, I expected Christian Bale or Mel Gibson levels of impropriety. I’m not saying Ray had a good time on set, but this sounds a lot less racially nefarious and a lot more like an actor who thinks he’s worth more than he’s getting paid. Or is Terrance…

To be honest, I don’t have a problem with this, in the same way I don’t have a problem with actors, directors and crews on movies or television shows getting jumped ahead to get their jabs so they can safely work together.

Is it possible for the avclub to write something that isn't steeped in sanctimonious scolding? 

I mean...Whedon’s being an asshole doesn’t *actually* draw nearly as clear a line to Fisher’s part being cut as the studio’s runtime mandate does.

...hasn’t that been the case for most of pandemic? Even podcasters have been classified as essential workers. Aren’t we a couple weeks from everyone being eligible? Why the outrage? At least they’re getting people vaccinated rather than opening the doors and letting the chips fall where they may, like the CMAs did.

If this is Fisher not being cryptic, maybe he should go back to being cryptic. Because if this is the whole story basically boils down to:

Jesus, two years later and I’m never going to stop feeling vicariously embarrassed by people calling Captain Marvel’s 90 seconds of air force content that’s entirely about how they’re a bunch of misogynist pricks ‘military propaganda’.

Supposedly all the Fox movies have contractual obligations for theatrical release as part o the terms of the merger - That was the same issue with New Mutants.

If the movie is good people will watch it. People watch old Weinstein films. A friend of mine watched Baby Driver for the first time two weeks ago. Mel Gibson gets work (and an Oscar nomination). Chris Brown gets work. In a few years Lori Laughlin and Felicity Huffman will be employable again.

You really think the general public cares about what Armie Hammer did?

Dear Mr. Henshaw, that’s it! That’s the book I’ve been trying to remember for decades! When I was a kid I had an epistolary novel in the voice of a boy whose writing got better through the book as he got older. I distinctly remember the first chapter containing “I lick it” meaning “I like it.”

So, they used violence against Asian-Americans as a shield to protect them from their backbiting snark about how someone got promoted too early?

Yeah, OK. Everyone is safer today.

So a group of mostly white (I don’t know that for sure but feel pretty comfortable assuming) employees, at least some of whom presumably wanted the job that the outsider Black woman got instead, were able to get her fired from one of the very few high profile EIC positions held by Black women, over racist but…

Ecxctly. This is what’s so hilarious about these situations. Obnoxious, controversial twits like her and Piers Morgan are hired precisely because they are obnoxious and controversial, which gets ratings. Culture shifts and these dinosaurs are no longer welcomed by the public, so the networks act surprised and like…

Like most people, I’m not on Twitter. The only reason it feels inescapable to me is because media people keep reporting on it like it matters.

I always identified more with the PC guy anyways.  Granted, I’m a PC user and don’t plan on changing over to the Mac environment, but I still thought the Mac guy was an insufferably smug prick.

“cow”

The Abyss represent!