My family lived in Northeast Tennessee when I was in 2nd-4th grade. My 4th grade teacher (who was working very hard to make sure rules didn’t pass that said teachers had to treat gay students in the same way as straight): (this is not a joke)

They were both great, but I personally loved the first Aunt Viv. Janet Hubert portrayed her as a strong woman who knows what it’s like to come from a poor background while Daphne Maxwell’s Aunt Viv always seemed so laid back and a bit more passive.

Despite any personal acrimony the first Aunt Viv was clearly superior in almost every way.

This. This right here. Giving them paid sickdays helps everyone’s’ health. Fuck that Skeletor look a like.

Oh Jesus Christ - in Florida they can’t even get earned sick days. The legislature just turned it down AGAIN, saying it would be a hardship on businesses. You know what else is a hardship? Losing your business because you insist employees come to work sick so they can potentially KILL people who have suppressed immune…

Wouldn’t the easiest solution be to offer some sort of reasonably priced federally subsidized disability policy that small/medium business owners would pay into in connection with better FMLA job protections? No one should have to lose their job or all their entire income because they need to be off work for a while…

Completely false. It gets you access. And access and meetings and “working with Oscar winner”, are what get movies made. Its what gets bad movies made and its what gets small movies made and purchased at film festivals. Sure starring in a picture that does booming at the box office means quite a bit, if you are white…

...is a question a WHOLE lot of Asian American actors have been asking ever since Hollywood started with this shit—

Thank you! I hate that question so much! “Well what people color deserved to be nominated?” and I am always like “Prove to me the white actors deserved to be nominated” I always bring up Bryan Cranston because nobody has even seen Trumbo, but yet nobody questions the nomination and assume his performance was just…