I’m slightly uncomfortable shifting this kind of responsibility onto the shoulders of non-counselling/law/medical professionals.

Well, I don’t think that was their intention (however nicely paved paved Hell may be), but I agree I could see this going awry. It’s true that hairdressers and the like can develop intimate relationships with their client, but that usually is the result of the client feeling that he/she can *trust* him/her, and it…

Yeah it also seems like an hour long class won’t really be enough to help someone identify domestic violence any better than if they didn’t have the class.

This is weird to me. I mean I guess if it helps even a few people, that’s awesome.

The only way to handle thirsty people.

Cho was out-evidenced on this exchange, and shouldn’t have responded the second time. At least not the way she did.

Isn’t this her schtik? She basically started with an “I’m going to make fun of my mom with these hyper stereotypical traits”, realized that set was getting old, and then went on to more political minded comedy, which has spilled out into advocacy. She’s spent a good chunk of time positioning herself as an advocate and…

You want your emails to stand on their own, because the emails are fine.

Does Margaret not realize her emails were fine, there is not problem with them. It is her lying about the content and tone of the discussion that there is something very wrong with.

I think Cho comes off looking worse in this than Tilda. Though my first thought was why on earth would she seek out the opinion of Margaret Cho in the first place? It seems like just such a bizarre out of nowhere email to send to someone. I mean maybe there is some more backstory here that we aren’t getting, but that…

I’m uncomfortable with how Cho has handled this.

All the arguing aside, Tilda Swinton converses via the written word exactly as I would imagined she would.

Cho has made herself one of the main voices of this debate and was publicly criticizing the movie and Swinton. If someone does that, they can’t then claim that if someone wants to talk about it with them that they are being turned to as the only Asian in the room. She has set herself up as an expert on this issue for…

People do tend to extrapolate the behavior of someone whom they don’t agree and apply to all on the opposite side. It’s annoying as all hell.

Why isn’t it ok?

Whatever Cho’s intentions, this ended up making her look like an ass rather than sparking a fruitful conversation.

This is so stupid. Should Jason Biggs, an Italian, not be allowed to play a Jew?

Margaret Cho has always been someone who lies for attention. She’s like if Marc Maron were a woman. It’s too bad because she is incredibly talented.

So, Cho’s just gonna whitewash over all that stuff she said?