Oh boy, I hope she makes it as subversive as her craaaazy take on a romantic comedy, where her tough, takes-life-on-her-own-terms heroine just needs to learn to settle down with one guy to find happiness. 

So, what you’re saying is that the Barbie movie will not only be stupid and boring, it will now be stupid, boring, and completely devoid of anything approcahing funny? Wooo......hooo?

Aw, did Reese Witherspoon drive off into the sunset in her pickup truck filled with money? Because - Legally Blonde? Sweet Home Alabama? Election - I’d watch HER Barbie movie.

I wish this woman’s 15 minutes were up already. She’s just not funny.

you realize DOA means “dead on arrival” right? if it was, it never would have turned on to begin with. granted not being truly DOA isnt an excuse. still ridiculous you should have to deal with that. apple excels at their standard model models in terms of build quality, but as you seem to have experienced, they seem to…

It runs on his smug satisfaction, which is always in ample supply.

My entire life, I thought I lived on Earth-1. Now, I am convinced that this is actually Earth-2 or Earth-3, or whatever universe it is where everything is shit.

And people say Gawker is dead.

Okay, but why then degrade the character and yourself? And if you have to do it for some reason, why do it in public where people are obviously going to take it out of context?

Are you fucking kidding me? I’m a Latino and if I want to call someone, in joking, a “spic” then it’s okay. You’re a not allowed to clutch your pearls.

I remember when io9 was a site that was capable of writing articles like this with nuance and maturity rather than knee jerk pearl clutching. Whilst this might well be considered a topic worthy of discussion, if you’re starting from a point of dictating where and when an individual of minority descent gets to use a…

Ok, let’s stop right there, that’s totally a non-issue. It’s clear that Orci used the term in the context of acknowledging the prejudice he - and Spock, as a fictional character - suffered.

People can’t make ethnic slurs about their own ethnicities anymore? That is come cracker bullshit right there.

Oh come on now. Orci is half-Mexican and he was born in Mexico. It’s more culturally insensitive of you guys to tell him that he can’t say “Spic” than for him to actually say it.

Yeah, I joke about my Irish-Puerto Rican background by referring to myself as a “Mick-Spic.” I am sucker for rhymes....

Word. Person of minority decent using a derogatory term for said minority within this context is a non-story.

Eh....I think this is only an issue because oversensitive liberal white folk who can’t use those words don’t understand using words like that to make jokes about yourself or just saying the words in general without censoring ourselves because we can. Remember all the clutched pearls over the president saying ‘nigger’?…

why do it in public where people are obviously going to take it out of context?

EX-ACTLY! It’s a great, scary movie, but it strayed so far from the source material, it should’ve been given a different title.