Thank you for saying exactly what I was thinking as I read that comment, and much more articulately than I would have. All the perspectives have been ours. If POC are drowning out our (white) voices at this point (extended hysterical laughter here), that would seem fair to me, especially on matters like police…

I thought parts of it definitely came across as Tilda attempting to get absolution from Cho—that’s a problem for obvious reasons. I also thought Cho’s emails read as being exceedingly polite, almost the way you talk to someone when you’re kind of trying to make it their idea...? Like, I don’t know, maybe do this...?…

I agree. It’s hard, because I’m not sure that she could have “won” in this case, because on the one hand she has a right to explain why she chose to accept the role and her understanding of what her casting was supposed to achieve, but the whole explanation also kind of reads as “see how much I care about diversity—so…

I plan to...if they are going to let us know where it is now...? My state’s coordinator took the weekend off FB for her birthday in a case of Worst Timing Ever.

Well, would you look at that. I thought I couldn’t possibly think the man responsible for those disgusting commercials was a bigger piece of shit. Well done, sir.

Don’t knee him. Grab it and give it a firm tug and then act totally confused by the ensuing outrage.

I’ve never seen the movie for that reason. Same with Boys Don’t Cry. If I know a rape scene is involved, I’m pretty hesitant to watch. I know I miss some amazing films as a result, but I don’t like that shit in my head. My OCD does fucked up things as it is.

I think it’s splitting hairs Big time to say she wasn’t raped. Okay. She was sexually assaulted. He did that to her under the guise of “acting”; she did not give her full informed consent to what was about to happen. My point is that, given what happened to her and the fact that Brando took an active role in it, for…

Fair enough point if Brando wasn’t actually “in on” what Bertolucci was thinking (although it’s hard for me to believe, really), but I kind of want to punch him in the face for saying he “felt raped” by the film given Schneider’s story. He FELT raped; she WAS raped, since that’s what it’s called when someone does what…

Faye Dunaway is my new hero.

On a smaller scale (speaking of Hitchcock), Janet Leigh getting sprayed with sudden cold water when Anthony Perkins pulls back the shower curtain in “Psycho,” too.

I’m thinking no. It’s only acceptable to show genuine fear and horror (rather than simulating those emotions) if we’re watching a woman. It’s not okay culturally to see a man who’s helpless and vulnerable.

So, I know you gave only two examples, but I’m wondering: has a director ever pulled this shit with a man? Or are they only ever using the element of surprise for a “genuine” reaction from female types? Because there’s nothing fucked up about that whatsoever.

So. Bertolucci is a disgusting piece of shit, but in this scenario Brando is a far more disgusting and shittier piece of shit. How the hell could he have been complicit in this? This wouldn’t have happened if HE hadn’t done it. This makes me so fucking ill.

“Fast girls”? What is this, 1950? Is the Dad scandalized because the girl expressed interest in his son instead of waiting to be pursued, as is proper?

We are just all supposed to go get jobs where we’re paid fairly. Same as all those jobs where we are t sexually harassed. Because if we stay in those jobs, it’s our stupid fault.

I agree. It’s way more complicated than that and calling them all racists just makes them all defensive. I think racism is a huge part of the picture, but of course all the other isms and phobias are playing a large part as well.

Yeah, but he won the popular vote if you don’t count all of those illegal immigrants who voted. Obama even told them all to.

Or just people who can see the future. My husband asked me during the election if I wanted to watch “The Dead Zone” (with Christopher Walken and Martin Sheen). If you haven’t seen it, it’s excellent, but the scene containing the vision Walken has about Sheen’a presidency literally haunted me throughout the campaign…

I live in Kentucky. It’s cold today, but we have basically not had a fall. We just had our first hard freeze a couple of weeks ago.