Stink. Stank. Stunk.

Honestly, I’ve never been a fan of Joss Whedon. I’ve been rolling my eyes at his cult for ages, and it’s seemed for a while now like he’s likely gotten away with things that a less nerd-worshipped person would have been raked over the coals for long ago. I never got into Firefly, I may be one of the few people who…

AvClub’s news writing is pretty much just a delivery vector for unnecessary snark and abrasive takes. Hughes’ articles in particular.

So, the show is still being produced under the mutant enemy banner...

Again, WTF? This isn’t as quite as cheap and really gross as attacking Lohan for no reason but it’s in the same realm. The ridiculous amount of inter-linking in a single article to try get more clicks on other articles is also stupidly apparent. Congrats for going full Spanfeller.

Look Whedon is a piece of shit and has done shitty things but I highly doubt this has anything to do with Ray Fisher’s accusations that he was abusive. Namely because they are either incredibly vague or are based on things he heard secondhand. Hell, Whedon is leaving the project on relatively good terms at least public…

PSA: The Grammys being demonstrably racist does not imply you deserve a Grammy.

Counterpoint:  Neither of them should even have been in contention, I’m sure there were loads of new artists in 2012 who were miles better than them.

There’s something Trumpian about fabulously wealthy and famous artists whining about not getting nominated for/winning a Grammy.

The weird part I always confuse the two.

If we’re going to pretend that it’s just business, and he willingly signed a legal contract, etc. then it should be equally fair, from a business perspective, to point out that Chappelle would be a fool not to use the impressive levers he has at his disposal to facilitate a better deal for himself, however…

Yeah, Dustin Diamond being a shitshow is obviously a big part of it. Why no Lark Voorhies though? Or guy who played Belding? Personal issues?

Except that they brought back Mario Lopez’s football playing Jock character as Mario Lopez himself is the coach. And it doesn’t seem you really watched the original version. Screech wasn’t the skinny nerd loser, he was more the smart but socially awkward, loveable doofus in the style of the characters from Big Bang…

Trans people are 100% entitled to the same dignity and respect as everyone else - of course. And also, that Barsanti article, like so many others, makes me want to puke in my mouth. I would never want to be forced into a conversation with someone like that. Every progressive cause has its share of reactionary…

Eventually, it gets hard not to notice that pretty much everyone who has actually accomplished something is on one side of these kinds of arguments (anti cancel culture, hysterical wokeness is embarrassing and counterproductive) while the other side is, well, the kind of people who write for the AV Club, Jezebel, etc.

So “John Cleese hopes trans people are happy and that people could treat them kindly” could have also been the headline. And yet.

Very old British white guy who used to black it up in his movies has terrible opinions, is even less so.

You’re drastically overestimating the number of people who play games like The Last of Us. It sold 17 million copies in five years - that’s a quarter of a drop in the ocean in terms of a global TV audience.

“Any way, that Matt, what a card. My girlfriend who is a model—she lives in Canada, you don’t know her—told me to post this on Twitter. She always loves hearing about Matt. She told me that even if my penis wasn’t over a foot long, she’d still date me just to hear my Matt stories.”

I have to say, as another neuroatypical person, I feel like your response was a bit facile, to put it mildly. “Why didn’t she cast an autistic actress” is not a “CHECKMATE!”-type thing that completely seals any and all argument. In fact it’s rather hollow. If there were specific, equally-skilled autistic actresses…