In principle, I am against paternalism.

Stop putting things out there for people to decide for themselves. People have clearly demonstrated they aren’t ready for that much responsibility.

“Hey! Wait! I filed a dumb complaint.”

Exactly. It also buys into the regressive assumption that a female pop star’s male producer is responsible for the quality of her work. Usually it cuts the other way with the producer getting credit for successes, but “it’s Jack Antonoff’s fault these pop albums aren’t good” is just as crummy.

Bob Dylan was touring in the UK at that time.

It sure is:

“there is something to be said for the fact that Marvel jumped at the chance to replace a Black man with a white woman in its promotional materials.”

That’s only part of the problem. The other part is that it’s been at least nine hours since we were able to stroke our outrage boners and we need release.

So if I’m reading this correctly, the problem is that Marvel temporarily replaced the promotional Twitter account avatar of a character whose show dropped several months ago with a different character whose show dropped last night?

This was what people wanted to see. The Last Jedi was something else. It was an attempt, and maybe a doomed one, at making an anti-nostalgia Star Wars.

Finn ended TFA wearing a Resistance jacket, shooting stormtroopers, being galactically infamous for betraying the First Order, and having rando stormtroopers call him “TRAITOR!”, branded an enemy of the First Order and an agent of the Resistance. Maybe he didn’t map this out as a career plan, and given that he was…

I mean, almost every work of crime fiction takes inspiration in one way or another from actual events. I don’t think anyone is going to look at the film and think it’s trying to be an accurate representation of her experiences.

I mean, they’d have settled with a male actor, too. Like, MAYBE someone with an ultra sterling reputation like Chris Evans wouldn’t get that kind of response, but if someone like Benedict Cumberbatch or Chris Pratt was filing this kind of lawsuit? Yes, Disney would have still made similar responses, especially the…

Only if she had a contract with you not to do so.

It’s easy to say that now, but for many people it was Hannibal Buress who put the spotlight on Cosby in 2014. There are ‘industry’ open secrets, and ‘public’ open secrets, and even if we want to generous, it wasn’t until at least 2006 when it was really blowing up.

the allegations against Cosby were really coming out

I think the Cosby Suite thing is not enough to fixate in and of itself in light of all the other testimonies about terrible things. Looking back, while there were allegations against him in 2006, the floodgates on Cosby really opened up in 2014, which would be one year after these pictures.

I feel like this is worth reiterating:

I will admit that there’s a difference between saying it with the specific goal of hurting someone and saying it without caring if you hurt someone, but that’s as much absolution as I’m willing to grant. Saying it in any context is pretty bad. I’ll admit that when I was younger and found a lot more humor in “edginess”…

He looks like Shia LaBeouf playing a JD Vance hillbilly character.