Seeing that we’re in an election year, I bet businesses are scared the pushback will be even worse than last year. They want to go after the market, but also trying to stay out of some MAGAs campaign speech. 

You had speakers?! You must be rich!

His Patrick Bateman bit had me rolling on the floor laughing out loud.

He also thinks Tom Cruise is a fun guy so I think his credulousness is pretty well proven

It’s the same debate with “race-swapping” a fictional character. It’s the same every time. You get three groups of people... 

The first is the group that says “You can’t have a black mermaid!”

Second is the group that tries to logically explain why you can have a black mermaid, even though MERMAIDS AREN’T REAL.

And the…

Yep.

It’s not just queer stuff, either. I remember a cereal commercial that featured an interracial couple and comments everywhere were furious that they were “shoving it down our throats.” I don’t know what “it” was, but having it exist on TV amounted to having “it” shoved down your throat.

i don’t necessarily think ‘giving credit’ is the right way to phrase this, but the current renaming of racism to be ‘anti-DEI’ is probably the strongest branding racism has had in a long time. it’s just vaguely official/corporate/government sounding enough to sound like a real thing, and if you’re dumb and racist it’s…

Yah but dipshit trolling in hopes of a comment section race war tho.

It’s funny, because in other threads you see apoplectic dipshits proclaiming that queer visibility and incremental increases in queer representation in media amounts to a fucking takeover.

I don’t think most people expect corporations to reflect their values, just not actively oppose them. I’m Gen X. I stopped going to Chik Fil-A because of their support of anti-LGBTQ causes. Most places I shop or buy food, I don’t know their values, so I don’t care. It’s only when they put it out there for all to see.

The right wing also wants corporations to stop acknowledging the gays, so I do t know why so many social slacktavists are so quick to help them.

I wouldn’t put it quite this way as there should definitely be some feet being held against the fire... but I do think it’s a better sign than not. It was much more worrying that many of these same corporations dialed back support when they got pushback.

Look at it this way. If you are being pandered to in Corporate America, even if only for a month, that means you’ve been mostly accepted.

and a right-wing rumor that shopping at Target makes you “gay and a pervert.”

Can we lock him in a room with Ted Cruz?

My stance is that I may as well believe in Will Smith. If I’m wrong, nothing happens, and if I’m right, I’ll enjoy the full glory of the Willennium.

This will only encourage Will Smith to continue slapping whoever he pleases.

I’m Will Smith agnostic.  He may or may not exist but I’ll find out eventually 

I’m rooting for this one. The cast of KO 2 was great, loved Janelle Monae, Bautista, Hugh Grant, etc., but the scale and the less personal feel of the mystery took me out of it. I want something much more hermetic, like a true classic whodunnit. A pressure cooker. I almost feel like the bigger budgets are keeping…