Now I’m pretty naive — I had no idea what “motherless” was until I googled it after your comment.

Streaming Coachella is the way to go. I watched last night. Beach House and Sia were great. Sia’s set was so perfect, I started to wonder if she was lip-synching. She also stood in the same place (on a plinth, toward the back of the stage), which got me wondering if she was pulling an Andy Warhol and wasn’t actually…

Can we add “I’m just saying” to the list?

so over people saying ‘no shade’ it’s the new “no offense” or “not to be a bitch”

I don’t know all the specifics but there are laws granting all kinds of immunities and protections for people who report “threats” with respect to air travel, so there’s not a lot of incentive to err on the side of not being a paranoid psycho.

People are idiots. I wish everyone were required to take cultural literacy classes.

Gawker reported on this story already, but this wasn’t even the only incident that came out this weekend!

Who said anything about girls? Wasn’t there a guy who studied grizzlies and was mauled by one? It’s human nature to become attached to animals because they’re childlike.

Right, zoos are just the main groups actively involved in animal conservation. But what do you really care about that? Oh right, you don’t care.

Yeah, in this case captivity is kind of necessary to keep the species going, unfortunately.

There are a couple hundred Malayan tigers left; just leaving them all where they live is maybe not the best way to still have Malayan tigers in ten years.

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? Come back into our lives you beautiful, crazy, nutjob!

Has Hollywood not yet learned its lesson from Aloha or Gods of Egypt or Ridiculous Six?

It’s not because they’re dumb. They don’t really think she is white. They just couldn’t care less that she’s Japanese. The name of the character is Major Motoko Kusanagi. They knew what they were doing.

Someone on Tumblr fixed it (like properly, not like yellowface-up ScarJo) but it just makes me sadder that they can’t just CAST AN ASIAN PERSON IN A MOVIE. #ghostintheshell #drstrange #deathnote

Is there any hard proof that white people stay away from movies with non-white main characters? Or is it just an assumption made by producers. Because in my own personal experience as a white woman I’ve never avoided a film because the characters didn't share my skin colour.

We have known Apocalypse origin since ‘96.

Just hair, eye-shape, skin-tone...

Does this look like a white woman to you?

Well, if they had moved it to America, and changed her name to something not-Japanese, it wouldn’t have been whitewashing, just a cultural adaptation. Which is something all countries do - Japan isn’t shy about taking a Western story and making its own Japan-focused version. And since this isn’t a true story, no real…