I just saw, for the tenth time, an ad on my social media feed for an upcoming movie. The movie is “Like a Boss”. The ads trumpet that this movie will make for a great “girls night out”; I think at least one theater chain is running a specific promotion around that. Beyond that, the ads seem pretty clearly designed for…

Respectfully - no.

I am all with you - as long as you also embrace the logical point that this applies as well to creative people who are white, male, straight, etc. In other words, men can write for female characters, white people can write for characters of color, and so forth. I mean, you make that case wonderfully, but in one…

There is an interesting discussion to be had here, but I am pessimistic about the odds of it happening.

An all-black cast? Yeah Diversity!

The problem here is that all we do is react to these comments based on what we’d like to be true, what we want to be true, what we think could be true. Absent some sort of detailed customer preference survey, we have no idea - and even then, it would be tough, because there are probably too many variables to control…

The ‘all or nothing” responses below, from those with a political axe to grind, suggest to me that some folks have little real world experience, or just want to indulge in some Pence-bashing. There is no indication at this point, NONE, that any woman ever felt disadvantaged in a work setting, with VP Pence.

Bravo.

One challenge with the game is that some types are rare in some areas, so if you visit and catch one, you will pretty much have to accept you will never be able to develop it much. Water types are pretty scarce near where we live. I have caught a couple on visits to areas near water, and that’s fun - for filling out…

Again - wow, yes. Fantastic analysis.

Great observations. Spot on.

Lets face it..twelve issues a year, all those titles being published? There is a lot of very pedestrian stuff being put out there, and some just AWFUL stuff. But at times, when you look back at it, it does seem amazing just HOW awful it could be.