Actually, since there’s a well-established market for buying space in celebrities’ wardrobes on the red carpet at major award shows, wasn’t it Chanel that was asking Streep to work for free, not the other way around? Streep has a valuable asset that lots of fashion houses wish to purchase; she was perfectly reasonable…

Third option: her people pulled this stunt without her knowledge. Designers often pay A-listers huge sums of money, and I imagine that her stylist gets a cut of it.

Oh, shut the fuck up, Caitlyn.

I understand what you are saying, but I’d imagine that to a black person, a white guy waving the Confederate flag is a message of “I wish that you black people were once again property of white people.”

My daughters love him and, while they understood what he did was wrong, they didn’t understand why so many people were so mad....and I had to explain to them that this type of stuff, joke at other’s expense, isn’t funny. There were 1000 things he could have had them write on that sign.

This is an important distinction. Sunny always walks right up to that edge, but they would never advocate someone holding up a sign reading “Death to Jews” without making that person look like the clown they are.

The vast majority of Pewdiepie’s fans are children. And children are stupid. They’re not emotionally mature enough to fully grasp nuance or context. They see Jacksepticeye criticizing his actions while also voicing support, and all they understand is “Jacksepticeye talked shit about Pewdiepie.” They can’t see how…

You know, why not get one of the “parents” of the “child” to waive the anesthesia?

I’m curious about this. I read an interview with Witherspoon in which she describes herself as being offended that everyone thought she was perfect for Madeline, and most of the reviews I’ve read paint Madeline as very unlikable. But I loved that character in the book. Deeply flawed, yes — she can be catty and…

I live in a NorCal town very similar to Monterey and I was surprised at how real the show’s characters were. I know it’s a parody, but people in my town really ARE like these characters. (Rich miserable assholes).

That doesn’t really fly, though - in the fantasy environments in question, men are still clad in massive, heavy plate - and the women are in chainmail bikinis.

Well it’s the same as Doctor Who having better looking Sillurians, or Ice Warriors, or even Cybermen (over a long history of production values improving even over the classic series itself).

They probably dislike him because he says childish, offensive shit like “death to all jews” under the pretense of a joke. He may be anti-semitic, he may not be. But anyone with a shred of common sense understands some things just are not funny and anyone criticizing him does so rightly in my opinion. It is not edgy.…

Yes. And the reason for that emphatic “Yes” is the fact that to him its just ‘some jokes that you disagree with’.

That part of the post reminded me of a friend of mine who used to read into completely innocuous text messages thinking they were grave insults. She once flew off the handle at me for saying “That’s fine!” at the end of a text. Like “OMG IF YOU REALLY THOUGH IT WAS FINE YOU WOULDN’T HAVE HAD TO SAY ‘THAT’S FINE’,…

Up to this point, I’d dismissed all the “Trump has dementia” thinkpieces as just tasteless insults. I’m fine with him being called a racist, sexual predator, but ridiculing his mental health seemed a step too far.

I think it suggests that everybody is different and has different experiences with marriage and with everything else.

Just looked through the Kotaku history of articles on PewDiePie and found this gold mine.

Yup. It’s basically equivalent to the infamous “bum fights” from years back (at least I hope it’s done and gone forever).

Thank you for this. I was going to post something similar, so I was glad to find this comment. Well said.