One of several reasons, really
I am sure that you were out there protesting the race swap of having Khan race-swapped by white Englishman Benedict Cumberbatch in Star Trek Into...
Taking that release as genuine and an honest reflection of their whole relationship (i.e., she was always happy and a consenting partner with him, as...
I mean, as horrendous as being an anti-trans bigot is, it's magnitudes less problematic IMO than being a credibly accused serial rapist. The original...
Actually, The Ultimate line of comics race swapped Nick Fury to black and the writer modeled him after SLJ in 2002....
People were complaining just as much about how liberal Hollywood was then. The term "woke" was not in common usage among whites then, but the...
It's still examples of how Hollywood sometimes casts white actors for traditionally minority roles. P.S. Hollywood in 2005 was not any more or less...
Namor doesn't have to be of Mayan descent, Aquaman doesn't have to be brown and WW doesn't have to be brown either. (BTW, I would not consider Gal...
He's described as having "pallid" skin, not pale, and certainly not "pail." https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pallid Believe it or not,...
If the author has given her blessing to Snape being played by a Black actor or making whatever changes from the books that she wants, why should it...
1: If it's later-seasons Wesley, it would be not bad at all. Early season 7 could probably be given a logical argument to join the Mile High Club,...
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Late to the party, but feel it needs to be pointed out: The criticism is that Trump's tariffs were done in a haphazard way and as but one of the...
I would say that for the most part, as much as I loved much of the syndication era, it had certain characteristics. With the exception of a few...
What do you mean? Just because he was promoted to captain without even graduated the Academy, bypassing multiple ranks and canonically shown to have...
She was no more instantly awesome, wise, or a best hope than Luke. She stumbled, made mistakes, grew. In fact, she struggled or lost fights same as...
Let's start off with their first appearances: As far as we know, Luke's training with Obi-Wan consisted entirely of what was shown in A New Hope:...
I might not be understanding your slang here...are you saying that 2015 you was cooking (i.e. were on point) or that 2015 you was cooked (i.e. washed...
Luke's journey is no more involved, complicated, better written or realistic than the journeys undertaken by any of the "girl bosses." And as much as...
While it's true that "Everyone makes their own choices," sometimes people don't have choices or at least don't have meaningful choices. It is...
I mean, I could see the sort of argument that Aliens and Terminator made Sarah and Ripley heroic but didn't insult men in the process. But I think...
My non-educated guess: The various parts of the distribution chain are expected to adjust to absorb the costs of the tariffs and pass them along to...
[media] Point of order: Linda Hamilton's Sarah Connor (according to the Internet) is 5'5 and weighs 112. And she absolutely destroys men who are...
There are more than one way to support slavery or the Confederacy than legislation. Earlier, I referred to undoing the renaming of bases that had...
BTW, this is the thing I was referring to about blaming Biden for human trafficking that happened decades earlier....
In the case of supporting Confederates and slavery, we're not talking about random isolated outliers. We're talking about the Trump administration...
No "probably" about it. They have renamed bases that were named after Confederate heroes for other people with the same name to give some level of...
See the various modern-day Confederate apologists and those who are wanting to glorify/sanitize the fact that the Confederacy was about wanting to...
The standard approach for an obituary (I would think) would be to cite not necessarily someone's best roles but the ones they were most known for....
It's like pornography -- you know girl bosses when you see 'em. That's why Burnham, Captain Marvel, Rey, Batwoman and the like are 1-dimensional...
I might be inclined to give people in 2016 a break in evaluating Trump, as one could be blinded into thinking such things as a) the...
Cleanshaven people with crew cuts and business-casual dress.
Enterprise established that the Federation had access to holodeck-like tech 100 years before Kirk, and passed it to the Klingons. Although we only...
Yes, they rescued 10-yo Danny Rand from the plane wreck. But then despite him being a 10yo foreigner, and despite there being a whole village of...
Thesaurus disagree's! https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/petty Yes, I know that we're talking a different form of "petty," but I couldn't resist.
I think you underestimate his willingness to be open about his grifting. I could easily see him publicly going "A vote for ______ is a vote for a...
@T.R I'm curious if you know for sure if the author intended Snow White to be metaphorically "white as snow" or literally "white as snow," and your...
I am very curious what DOES explain Black Widow, because that movie is full of plot holes, girlbossing, unrealistic waif-fu, men being treated as...
If he had reported on the plans in advanced without corroboration that they were real, a) he would have been an irresponsible journalist b) he would...
Do you have a link to show that Signal was approved during the Biden administration to talk about classified information or imminent military...
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