It’s hard to argue with someone who is acting willfully obtuse. A random drug test doesn’t prove addiction, just like a random blood test after two glasses of wine doesn’t prove alcoholism. Woods could take the witness stand and admit past drug use, as long as the defense can’t prove drug addiction, making the claim…

If I knew your name, could I call you a child molester on social media and force you to prove that you don’t like to feel up little boys or girls? Just reverse the burden of proof and thereby pervert the legal system.

Are you this stupid? I was specifically referring to this comment:

There is a huge difference between someone who did blow in his life and a coke addict, like there is adifference betwen someone who enjoys a glass of wine or whiskey every now and then and an alcoholic. This guy would have to prove, that Woods is a drug addict. Good luck with that.

Shorter: lack of melanin!

If this critic had written a less than flattering review, describing Sandra Bullocks’s physical appearance in Miss Congeniality, where she plays an undercover cop in a beauty contest, you would not have approved, that’s for sure.

That’s a straw man argument, the defamation itself is hurtful. Not acting upon a public defamation would give it more credibility, not less, imo. If a neighbour would accuse you of a crime in the neigbourhood, wouldn’t you take legal action to quench the rumors once and for all for everyone to see?

Depending on the role, the camera angle, the costume, and the hair and makeup, Mr. Stiller, 50, swings between polarities of trollishness and desirability. In some movies, he appears dwarfish and deformed with a head that’s too big for his body and empty space-alien eyes. He is of average height but looks shorter. And…

They both are.

There’s only one way to stop a woman with spray cans - a guy pissing back.

But we should still go after anonymous tweeters who call none-celebrity women ‘fat’ and worse, bc that is much worse than defaming a celebrity as a ‘coke addict’? That doesn’t work. Online harassment and defamation are both punishable offenses. You can’t shrug off one while frothing at the mouth about the other.

I have not doubt about Woods doing blow, but so has half of Hollywood, I suppose. Calling someone a drug addict without backing up that claim is still defamatory. So yeah, no love for Woods but also not on the side of this anonymous chickenshit. Team no one.

OMG, that was the plot in white chicks. Black men disguised as white women! That’s not the case with Pedrad’s show. The way I understand it, she will play a boy, not a girl disguised as a boy.

A defamation lawsuit does not have the purpose of surpressing information, it’s intent is to set the record straight about a defamatory statement, punish the defamer and keep them from slander the plaintiff in the future. Woods is a racist right-wing as****e, but so is Paula Deen. Would you be ok with someone…

You’re really hung up on the age of the actor? OK, let’s say they could have casted a 18 yo male actor of middle eastern descent. Is he too among the privileged in the entertainment industry? If the part of a white woman would have been cast with a black man, you’d still be crying sexism, even though white women are…

By “oppressed groups”, you’re referring to women, In America, in the 21st century? Welp!

Not where I am from. This is a doughnut to me

By that logic, all male characters in movies and tv shows should be played by women, bc men are still represented elsewhere, at least in your opinion, I suppose. That’s not the point though; if casting true to character is what should be done, then casting the opposite gender is always wrong, except when the gender…

A ‘Berliner’ is not a doughnut. This is a Berliner:

I think of this more as another case of do as I say, don’t do as I do.