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_Robert_ wrote:
“the first woman to…..”

I’m not sure celebrating milestones is in itself counter to the idea of equality. If anything it is a reminder of just how difficult it is to break through in a job or role or position. This year, for example, the US House may have its first Native American woman representative. It is really hard to believ…[Read more]

Would you believe it!! Turns out Matt Damon is not a secret agent with amnesia. He was just acting the part all along. Still I suppose a good secret agent has to be a good actor.

It gets worse! It turns out that Tom Hanks was not a real lawyer in the movie “Philadelphia” and they gave him an Oscar for it!! What was that all about! Hanks should…[Read more]

A lot of people will view this as just a variation on “whitewashing.”

You might as well just buy the dead animal from an inventory as go on a “hunt” with a guaranteed outcome.

That said, nature is a bitch.

In their natural environment, most of the hunted animals would probably die a far more painful and violent death, in many cases being eaten by their killers before they had actually died. I would hope that any…[Read more]

I should also admit I’ve used LGTB+ and gay men alternatively and that was a screw up on my part. Lesbian, bi-, trans and + all have it actually much harder than gay men in terms of being represented in major roles (as  well as being cast in any films). Much worse! In fact Scarlet Johanson was so attacked for accepting a trans. role she gave it…[Read more]

It is a step in the right direction and in the big picture, eventually a gay actor will play a major gay role as well.

Your push/pull summary is a fantastic description of a very familiar dilemma to me as a privileged, white, straight male: the “I’m dammed if I do and dammed if I don’t” scenario. So I will not bring up topics or have discussions…[Read more]

Let’s tell the people living on some planet near the super massive black hole in the center of our galaxy how the universe feels about them.

Hahahaha. Yes, I’m sure if sentient life ever made it near a giant black hole, they’d be so pummeled with radiation I would imagine life would be rather terribly uncomfortably awkwardly frightful.

What a w…

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