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Not as good as the first two
Very good!
It's not that good
Eff-off, love
How's Season 3?
A feminist fantasy
Woman in peril "horror"
Does a generation choose its stars?
What does she believe in/stand for?
Ugly old woman pretends to be a man
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No one is crying or claiming that 1940s England was 100% white. This is a strawman that you've created in order to insult others. If anything, the overemotional and irrational one here is you.
In 1951, according to the best available data, about 99.8% of the population was white. Most of the non-white population was Asian. This leaves 0.05% of the population who came from West Africa and the West Indies. Some of that group would have been South Asian in origin, and 1951 was six years after the end of the war and three years after the start of the Windrush. So less than 0.05% of the population was black during the war. England wasn't 100% white during the Blitz, but it very nearly was. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_England, see 'Estimations of white and non-white population in England and Wales, 1951-1968')
The Blitz is a key foundation of modern British identity and myth-making, and the central narrative of the Blitz was that Londoners worked together to survive, overcoming class differences and living cheek by jowl in bomb shelters and on crowded Tube platforms. McQueen has gone to a great effort to put aside real people's lives and instead insert race and racism into an event that wasn't about race at all. Pointing out that this is obsessive and inappropriate isn't racist or privileged. I'm mixed-race myself, and I'm utterly sick and tired of the focus on skin colour and "white privilege".
Instead of whingeing about others' opinions, make the positive case for focusing on a black person during the Blitz. Out of the stories of 9 million Londoners, why is this the one that must be told? Remember that it's a fictional story - the boy never existed - while there's a plethora of true stories of tragedy, excitement, heroism, love, heartbreak, terror, etc. No one can claim that this is a story that demands to be told, because it never happened. All this focus on race does is divide us further.
Winning an Oscar for writing an adaptation of a classic novel barely counts... In fact, writing awards should be for original work only. Most of the words in Sense and Sensibility aren't Thompson's!
She's a good actor though.
Said no one ever. I think this woman does a good job of explaining the recent issues with Hollywood's female leads: https://youtu.be/Nqmd4iU8J3k?si=X_GsvrM-beuAlAr7
This is the correct answer. There's a guy called Roy Price who built Amazon Studios. He was cancelled for telling a dirty joke in a taxi, though it likely never even happened. He reckons that about 40% of entertainment industry cancellations were based on nothing whatsoever - they were purely made up. Many of the other cancellations were for minor infractions that deserved no more than a slap on the wrist.
Like all witch hunts, metoo was based on initial wrongdoing but then ballooned and ruined innocent people's lives, often with women strategically killing men's careers out of spite or for personal advantage.
She should apologise to him personally. Until she does that, she's still treating him unfairly.
It's not enough to recant her previous articles of faith. What a bizarre religion wokeness is...
It's utterly ridiculous. If race is so extremely important to these people, why do they treat it with such flippant disregard?
I always like to see him pop up in the most unexpected places. He often plays small roles but always makes an impression. I say the same thing as you - It's Finchy!
Ooof. Got a reason?
Amen.
Hahaha! I absolutely understand your frustration. How did we go from Halle Berry to these munters? There's an epidemic of ugly masculine black women in the media, mostly bald. See Cynthia Ervio, Lashana Lynch and Adjoa Andoh, and those are just the British examples.
Stats from dating apps consistently show that black women are the least desired ethic group, even among black men. And yet they are constantly pushed despite the total lack of demand.
It honestly seems like the ugliness is the point. It's to deny us pleasure and punish us for being male. Having attractive actresses would go against feminist principles, or something. So we're likely to be stuck in this purgatory until the fashion changes or some studios go out of business.
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