I've watched that video half a dozen times, and I can't tell what I'm supposed to be seeing.

Pretty fucked up that you’re pushed to feel guilty over a hairstyle of convenience. This is one of the very few instances where I feel PC culture has gone too far.

I mean, they’re not cornrows - they’re french braids, and I don’t wear them in public (it’s bad enough being a pretty guy with long hair, adding feminine hair styles is basically asking for a beat up), but I will absolutely keep that in mind, and make sure I speak up next time anyone mis-identifies or takes credit for…

People are absolutely saying white girls can’t wear their hair like this.

This article literally states that these braids date back to ancient Africa. Nobody is ignoring where the idea came from or is pretending a white celebrity created the look. You people are fucking ridiculous sometime.

I’m just wondering at what point are they cornrows vs. European-style complex braids?

Jesus. Cornrows have been around for years and years. Even when I was going to high school (which was mostly Irish), the girls were getting them after going on vacation. Agreed. It's not new.

It’s not offensive to wear your hair in a style that works for your hair texture. It’s offensive to dread your hair if your hair doesn’t naturally dread. It’s offensive to wear a unique style that’s sacred to another culture. But just making tight braids to keep your hair tamed does not count as harmful appropriation.

How was that appropriation?

I’m with you on this too. Hell, there’s a culture of braids in white European culture. Thankfully, this article isn’t too crazy on the appropriation side of the argument, and more on the silly white nonsense of being afraid to calling these types of braids what they are - cornrows - and calling them something else.…

Also, Katie Dippold mentioned in one of her interviews that it wasn’t that Jones’ character was “street smart” - she’s stuck in her booth and so she reads a ton of non-fiction books on the history of New York. So she provides the team with a lot of useful information.

So he should just not say anything at all?

Melissa McCarthy is neither slender nor blonde. Try again.

Dare you to tweet this to Jones. Let’s see how she feels about your opinion on her role.

Would I want to do some pot and take my kids for a drive? Uh, no.

SO WAIT... if your kids got cut and possibly needed stitches you would call an AMBULANCE? Whhhhhhat?

But... the personality I’ve seen in the trailers is how Leslie Jones actually is. As someone pointed out above, a lot of these movies are improvised so the odds are good that a huge percentage of her lines were created by her, rather than written to adhere to some stereotype. If you feel that her personality is too…

She’s famous to a small sub-set of people. The fact is Ghostbusters will be her big break as far as most people are concerned. It’s no less smug than stating the fact that Melissa McCarthy’s role in Bridesmaids was also her big break. Sure she was on Gilmore Girls for 7 seasons and starred in a hit CBS sitcom at the…

Yeah, not a huge fan of how the tenor of the criticism is that scientists are inherently more interesting and useful characters than an MTA worker. Like there’s simply no way Jones could be an equal to scientists if she’s a mere civil servant.

It’s Ghostbusters. All the characters are “superstitious.”