I’m really interested in what the response will be to this movie if it comes out. Whatever merit it had has been overshadowed by this controversy. And if Baldwin gets charged? I could see this thing getting held up through the trial.
That's the part that really gets me about all this. Rowling is a total woketoid ("I never said Hermione WASN'T black") but since she doesn't agree with them on absolutely everything, she's vilified. Tell me you're a cult without saying you're a cult.
I started writing a story like this a couple of years ago. It took place in the future, when the mRNA vaccine caused children conceived in 2021 to start turning into giant bugs (it tied back to the Brood X cicadas in the Washington DC area). It was meant to be all about how the media controls the public’s view and reaction to these insect people (thinly veiled commentary on contempt for the unvaccinated). I never got past the first chapter, though.
Shit, Frasier couldn’t even get away with the Frasier episode about the misunderstanding about someone being gay. Twitter would be outraged over “my sexuality is not your joke” even though the jokes in that episode were hilarious.
This is one those things where you know that if Trump had a misbehaving dog, the media would’ve been all over it. CNN would’ve had a pet therapist on the air to analyze Trump’s dog’s behavior and how it reflected on Trump. But this? Crickets.
When you have to put "patriarchal society" in your description like that, you have to assume the writing will just be completely childish and on-the-nose. "I have a degree in chemistry! How about you hire me?" "NO! Here are Penis Chemistry, Inc. we COULD hire you at 30% less than an equally qualified man doing the same work because the patriarchy lets us, but our dislike of women is more intense than our desire to make money! Now go make me a sandwich, doll!" (At this point the straight white executive slaps Brie’s ass, but the actual ass slap won’t be shown because that could possibly trigger women.) "I WILL make you a sandwich! The bread will be knowledge and inside will be revolution! AND I'LL FEED IT TO THE WHOLE WORLD!"
If it’s the middle east, then we’re talking about that weird ass yogurt soda, aren’t we?