This is the most tired and easily debunked excuse ever but there’s always one or two idiots who try to float it in the comments every. single. time.

Uh. I think people would FLOCK to the movie if they cast a trans actor. You clearly underestimate the buying power of the LGBTQIA community.

So, that essentially creates a self-fulfilling prophecy. Productions won’t hire minority actors because pretty much all of them aren’t A-list. Minority actors can’t become A-list because A-list productions won’t hire them. Rinse and repeat.

Yeah,yeah,yeah but Ghost in the Shell bombed so while your argument might explain why this is sometimes done it doesn’t explain why Johansson and Sanders are being given more money to burn by miscasting a lead role...again.

Because her taking it actively prevents trans people from using their own voices in a system where they already experience extraordinary marginalization and erasure. She’s an active participant in the oppression of trans folks by taking this role. How is that not clear?

And anyone who tries to pull the “movies are expensive; they need a big name” bs is just an enabler of bad people and Hollywood would still be prevelant with black and yellow face if this bs idea was actually valid and made sense.

“Tell them that they can be directed to Jeffrey Tambor, Jared Leto, and Felicity Huffman’s reps for comment.”

I used to like Scarlett but she makes it so difficult. Just listen to criticism and respond thoughtfully. People may even think you’re a better person for it. Imagine that! 

Exactly! Like, no, dude, obviously you don’t need to remember every word precisely for it to be true that someone said that thing to you.

My fave was:

I’ve often wondered if you have ever paused to reflect on why you sometimes have such a reflex to get so personal and frankly, bitchy, when women take you on? Have you ever stopped and wondered about that?

Yeah, it was not a well-written article. Having spent nearly a decade with a non-profit that often had celeb endorsements/events, I know all too well the other side of the “halo effect”, but I’m not convinced that’s actually happening here. That said, sounds like (Google search, fyi) MIR is still a work in progress…

That’s how I read the NO/Brad Pitt story too.  Was it a total failure or did one house not hold up?  The article really doesn’t say.  And either way, I understand that the project may have failed but at least he was there trying to do something and get people in homes.  I didn’t really understand the tone of the…

If we must have Little Women based movies, why are we having the eleventieth Little Women adaptation when there hasn’t been one single March movie, you know, the Pulitzer-Prize winning fanfic about what Mr March gets up to during the Civil War where none of the March sisters appear but March has lots to do with…

My sister said it was “really bad” but that “the guy who plays Laurie is really hot,” so, there’s that.

Is Drake recording about how he regrets hooking up with the kid’s mother any better?

I knew that Drake had probably hid this kid not because he was ashamed, but because he didn’t want this kid to have all this media

Who decides whom is universally beloved? What are the requirements for this?

Is he really a single father though if he’s only seen the kid once? (Answer: NO)