Well that’s a separate issue. The way Ava phrased this made it sound like they aren’t being allowed to compete at all in the Oscars- when in reality they just want to compete in the one category they don’t qualify for out of 24 categories. I think the Oscars should probably change the name of the category back to…

It also seems silly that you could have a movie with the same setting, plot, characters, etc qualify or not-qualify based on the language alone. If a story in English like The Wind That Shakes The Barley doesn’t count, but the same film would count if they spoke Gaelic, that seems like an odd thing to hinge…

Yea, I think the title name causes unnecessary confusion. Either it’s the best film not in English (in which case an English Canadian film wouldn’t be eligible, but a French Canadian one would, ditto films in Gaelic or Welsh but not English, even if they are all set in Great Britain- which seems a little silly but…

Yea, it’s worth noting that I believe the film is still eligible to be entered into the Oscars in every other category. I think they should either change the name back to “Best Foreign Language Film” or expand the category to just “Best Not-American Film” (although I think that would result in A LOT of British films…

Yea, I’ve never been a huge fan, for many of the reasons you state. I know that a lot of gay guys really enjoy doing it, but as a queer woman myself it has always seemed pretty sexist to me. 

I mean, they are petty. Their whole purpose in life is to be of little importance to anything that actually matters, and they manage to do that. 

Which, in fairness, seems to be what she is aiming for. 

and as the clock is ticking down toward when he will eventually become monarch

They are all the clothing equivalent of over-cooked oatmeal. 

Pretty sure those are the exact shoes my uncle wore when he was in prison. 

That’s kind of like thinking that someone who is bipolar only has two moods. I’m bi, and I am just as attracted to trans men and women as I am to cis men and women. Or androgynous or agender people! People can (obviously) feel free to use the word pan if they like, but setting it up as “we are attracted to trans or…

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of the political situation in Maine that got him elected. 

There are plenty of white non-evangelical Christians who are still 100% in on the right’s bs. 

I can’t wait to hear all the usual suspects on the “Christian” right to object to feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, showing mercy to the criminal, and aiding the widowed and the orphaned. I’m sure the U.S. being a “Christian country” will continue to just mean being anti-abortion (something the Bible never…

Eh, maybe the stress will get to him and Mother Nature will vote to remove him. 

Holy shit, finally. 

Laura is one to talk, she’s the Crone of the Corn, at this point.  

I think it’s similar to how the whole NYT editorial staff felt when they went on Twitter and realized that not everyone thinks they are as wonderful as the people that go to their cocktail parties do. 

It’s amazing what happens when you are forced to interact with people who aren’t being paid to say they like you, isn’t in, Howard? 

Yea, not to be glib, but the honest answer is “they graduated from school and then got a job in journalism.” There wasn’t some secret take-over or elaborate plot- just a bunch of people who already believed- consciously or unconsciously- in white supremacy who wanted to be journalists.