Everytime I see promotions for The Lone Ranger I just think “So… we’re all just going to let Johnny Depp do that?”
(via adrienneness)
instead of telling same sex parents not to adopt because the kid will get bullied, we should tell straight parents to teach their kids not to bully
(via think4yourself)
Toymakers will tell you they won’t sell enough, and movie people will point to the two terrible superheroine movies that were made and say, You see? It can’t be done. It’s stupid, and I’m hoping The Hunger Games will lead to a paradigm shift. It’s frustrating to me that I don’t see anybody developing one of these movies. It actually pisses me off. My daughter watched The Avengers and was like, “My favorite characters were the Black Widow and Maria Hill,” and I thought, Yeah, of course they were. I read a beautiful thing Junot Diaz wrote: “If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.
