I can honestly believe that the puzzle writers were too stupid to know the origins of this rhyme, and that this was done from ignorance instead of malice.

Is it Better than Ezra?

Starring Tilda Swinton as Ezra Miller.

Can’t wait for-- no, dread,  the biopic: We Need to Talk About Ezra.

“Ezra Miller Story Remains Precisely as Dark and Sad as Before, But We’re Contractually Obligated to Summarize Any New Variety or Hollywood Reporter Article on the Matter”

Yes, but I’m all for more stories about this time-travelling Victorian haberdashery merchant who’s somehow ended up in the 21st century. 

I’m not mad about pronouns, but i was confused by the “met Miller when they were 12...” because I thought that meant Miller and Takota Iron Eyes were the same age. There needs to be a better way to talk about a nonbinary person when the sentence includes more than one person.

I mean, at least be fucking consistent.

Did the terminology change?

Other commenters have covered the voice topic and I agree with them, but you are spot-on about simply changing the race (or gender) of characters and thinking it’s doing something new. The movies the article cites were first and foremost great stories in their own rights, which rendered ethnicity secondary. The…

I recall first hearing it used that way in the Simpsons episode with John Waters. “Stop saying queer. That’s our word for making fun of you. We need it.”

I think The Little Mermaid is a story about a girl who got a guy to see her for her personality, despite a communication barrier. But I agree with the rest. These remakes are lesser works, and the underrepresented deserve better than superficial swaps. However, the Twitter videos are very sweet, and puts a lot into…

This is beside your point (I think) but speaks to the larger point of this article. “The Little Mermaid is a story about a young girl.” No, it’s not. It’s a story about a young mermaid which is a mythical creature—put another way, an entirely different species. A being of a species other than human could potentially…

I don’t really like the word myself, but I admit I also don’t remember ever hearing it used as a slur (except for watching, say, some older movies) so I don’t have any baggage with it. But I think it’s been the term academia uses since... well since I went to university in 2000 (queer studies). I admit I do find it a…

It seems like its become the defacto word , I think possibly down to a load of dumb kids in the early 00s going round calling everything they thought was dumb gay “...uhh thats so gay , man”

When you’re using a well-established character like that it seems like you’d work out those licensing issues before you released (hell, before you made) your film.  But I guess this is a good way to drum up publicity and make yourself look like a downtrodden underdog.

She meant a lot of different things to a lot of different people, as figureheads often do. Some of my friends are mourning, others are celebrating.

I’m hoping for “Ralph”.

This is a really smart, well-written analysis, one that took my initial feelings after watching it as something slightly closer to what the initial reviewer felt, to really getting something out of it I didn’t get at first. I was hung up on the scene where he tries to get out through the freezer, now I get it. He was…

A large part of Warhol’s success is intellectual FOMO. Fear of missing out. A few of the wealthy saw Warhol’s stuff and said “I want that.” Back then they had to justify their excess to the public. Good taste was paramount, and these were highly visible people. So they had art critics appraise his and others’ work so…