This was my take as well, and I live hear where the fracas happened in berkeley. She’s right - strategically it was a disaster. It made him look dangerous and cool, like oooh, we can’t handle his ideas. He’s a fucking troll. We fed the troll, and we fed a narrative that the left wing is dangerous and pro-censorship,…

He is either going to kill someone or directly lead to someone being killed.

I just saw Rise of the Dark Knight, and she was brilliant as Selena Kyle. Very sexy and confident on the outside, with a layer of self-loathing underneath the surface. I think Gal Gadot has gotten some similar hate from being too pretty and too earnest and reminding writers of the girls they hated and/or were jealous…

Also...Scorsese is right? Turning film into a multi-billion, multinational corporate affair that exists to maximize profits is shitty and has a negative impact on movies. In the same way that corporate control over music is a net negative. The issue is that it isn’t enough for a movie to be successful - a movie has to…

I want to hate this ap, but looking at the reviews posted by matt on Twitter, they all seem fake. Maaaaybe the one about girls not being conservative enough was real, but most seem fake. It seems it was review bombed, which is also a think lefty people do at times.

Eichner is also kind of...abrasive? Annoying? A lot? So he might not be the best cheerleader for the film

I plan on seeing Bros eventually, but I consider myself queer-adjacent if not queer. The marketing of this has really emphasized the GAYNESS of the cast/crew/story etc., and a lot of the narrative has been in the, “Finally, a film for US!!!” vibe. Which implies that it is NOT a film for people who aren’t gay.  I just…

Also, and I’m pro-representation, but the implication that we cannot relate to anything that does not directly represent our identities is weird.

Besides being punished for being female, I think Wilde is being punished for the disconnect between her yas queen go girl feminist public persona and the fact that she is an ordinary hollywood hypocritical asshole. DOR on the other hand is a known asshole, so his assholeishness isn’t newsworthy.

With a handle like ‘bemorewoke” they are either a self-righteous teenager or a troll. I think a lot of the negative reviews are people doing it for sport rather than because of any deep held beliefs (although I have no doubt the vast majority are sexist/racist/whateverist). It’s a group to belong to - the group…

This episode really captured the magic of some of the She-Hulk comics. It’s funny, it pokes fun at the Marvel Universe, breaks the fourth wall, etc. The lead is awesome, and while there were moments when the crunch on the effects team was apparent (I guess ponytails are hard to animate?), it’s an awesome show and my…

Yeah, “he” did not serve her papers. The process servers did.

I’ve been in the SF area for 30 years - property crime is worse than it has ever been, and it has never been great. Drug use is worse than it has ever been. More people died of drugs in SF during the last two years than COVID. Violent crime has gone way up. It sucks.And there are a lot of factors as to why this is,…

Im in the SF area: A shitty studio in a building build in 1912 will be going for $2,000, and activists will block a new housing project because it isn’t “affordable.” Nothing is affordable, and if they are selling a condo for less than $600 or $700K it is likely at a loss. Not to mention affordability means that it…

There was so much pro-Depp stuff on social media, it was insane. Does anyone know who/why there was such targeted harassment? was it just sexist trolls or was it a more concentrated effort? Like was there an actual political organization behind it?

This is what worries me - progressives have assumed that since a significant tranche of the conservative movement and republican party are overt racists that people of color were safely democrats. This ignores how conservative many non-white groups have historically been (Cuban-Americans and Vietnamese-Americans, to…

You’re right, he wasn’t “confused,” he was baiting her into his dumb  bullshit. I’m disappointed that this is the takeaway from her hearing. I am worried that centering trans rights in the fight for women’s reproductive health is not a wise strategic approach, and is going to end up alienating or turning off erstwhile…

From a progressive perspective, she handed him his ass around his faux confusion around transmen. However, he got his soundbite, and the video being shared from a hearing on the radical rollback of women’s reproductive rights is about how ‘actually, men can give birth too” and if you disagree with that it is an act of…

Also, the talking point isn’t “the supreme court’s reversal of roe was radical and took away women’s rights” became “democrats think men can give birth and any language criticizing them is violence.” She did not eviscerate him. She derailed the conversation to lecture him on trans-inclusive language, and then accused…

Conservatives don’t care. They do not care. They don’t care if we play fair, they don’t respect rights, or law, or tradition. They want power, they want to control the narrative. The whole argument over free speech from conservatives is almost entirely them doing their thing of accusing liberals of doing what they are…