I’m not freaking out about this as much as most. For one thing, all the claims that this is Sokka’s arc for the entire show, or even just the first season, are complete bullshit. He literally gets it beaten out of him in the fourth episode out of twenty (and we know the Kiyoshi Warriors are still in the show since…

Wow I didn’t realize the Critical Drinker was writing for the AVClub!

“Stop acting like you’re under attack!” he said, logging on in defense of the rich entertainer.

I’d say declaring “I’m a terf and proud” in the midst of seismic anti-trans laws denying basic human rights getting passed is advocating for something incredibly terrible, but hey that’s just me.

Freedom of speech protects his right to be a bigot and a bully, and it protects our rights to call Dave Chappelle a piece of shit hack. Shit cuts both ways. 

He isn’t out there advocating for anything terrible, and he’s definitely a person who would not stand for actual harm being done to anyone.

Jimmy Fallon excitedly grasping at him was eye roll worthy, but then again so is literally everything Fallon does

In what way exactly is Chappelle a terf? I can’t think of anything “radically feminist” he’s advocated - he’s just a plain old anti-trans bigot.

As much as it would suck seeing that hack bigot wander onstage for the curtain call, imagine the extra sting of seeing your colleagues and coworkers eagerly embracing him.

They’re right, it’s specifically someone’s job to make sure the firearms on set are safe. Alec Baldwin is not that person.

Executive producers aren’t in charge of hiring below-the-line crew members like firearm “experts.” If there was some evidence, like an email or a text message of Baldwin recommending Gutierrez to the line producer or UPM, then I guess you could hold him accountable. And when the civil suits start coming in, I don’t…

The New Mexico prosecutor’s office is managed by one of those drinking bird toys

Robbie’s Barbie was, for the most part, the straight-woman, setting up Gosling and to a lesser extent Ferrera, who get the big, broad and/or meaty stuff. Her Barbie doesn’t really get any big performative moments — in a different movie, the monologue about women’s expectations would’ve gone to her, not America…

I watched both within a week and felt like Poor Things had a much more resounding message and theme than Barbie. And that Emma Stone killed it in regards to her performance. All that to say, to each their own.

Thinks awards are arbitrary jokes and also thinks that only movies about certain subjects deserve them

You know it’s not really about Barbie though, right? RIGHT? 

...the Motion Picture Academy declined to nominate director Greta Gerwig and star Margot Robbie—and yet the film received a Best Picture nomination, so maybe someone can explain how it did that without its director or star.

Nominating Ken but not Barbie is stupid and fits perfectly with the theme of the movie.

Reminds me of yesterday, with the news that Sports Illustrated is laying off its entire staff, when I saw people on Twitter insisting it’s because the swimsuit issue started including trans and plus-sized models. It couldn’t be that print is dying in general, or anything, right?

That reminds me of what still might be the best tweet ever, when someone said, “Exactly what machine did you think they were raging against?”