Everything “woke” about this movie was conspicuously missing from the trailers or any promotional material. The marketing for this film has been incredibly well handled.

when “men” were portrayed as being simultaneously incompetent at everything they do, and at the same time manipulative and power hungry

Can’t help but be reminded of something.

On a basic level the message “Ken was silly, broke Barbieworld because he wanted to emulate men, they had to get Barbie and a feminist back to fix it”

How did he break it? He basically just flipped the genders so Kens are the ruling/working class and Barbies are just subservient eye candy. Barbie just flipped it back. It’s a broken and unimaginably unfair world in either case.

When Kens ask just for a bit of equality at the end, they are shut down and given some unimportant appeasement as a joke.

That’s how communism always ends up. When you hand over majority of the power to the state, it won’t be keen on giving it back.

That’s like saying the US is not capitalist because we don’t have a true free market and better products/services don’t always rise to the top.

These simply aren’t things that can practically happen, just like the workers owning the means of production.

No. The movie is very antagonistic towards men. I don’t think anyone who has seen the movie can dispute that in good faith.

Practically every male character in both the Barbie world and the real world is portrayed negatively. There are a few exceptions that are portrayed neutrally but they are mostly plot or exposition devices.

Conversely, practically every female character is portrayed positively. This creates a stark contrast that’s very difficult to ignore.

To be clear - personally I don’t care, it takes more to rile me up. But hating a movie that is deliberately spiteful towards your demographic is not an abnormal reaction. Neither is “slamming” the people who made it.

The idea is that the film is causing a knee jerk reaction in men who are otherwise prone to hiding their misogyny.

Why would a knee jerk reaction be any indication of misogyny? The movie is very antagonistic towards men. The proposition that having a negative reaction to that is misogyny is absurd.

Define “mad”. I’ve watched it (arrr) myself and The Barbie movie is very political, despite them completely hiding it in the trailers and the promotional material.

Fervent political media tends to rile people up, especially when it’s very one-sided. I presume you haven’t seen it and think people are upset over a light hearted comedy.

Because it’s healthy to read and understand the thinking of the people who disagree with you.

If their arguments are irrational and the information they use is incorrect, you will get a better insight of how they came to forming their wrong views. It can help you avoid doing the same, and it can help you in arguing for your position.

On the flip side, if you find that their arguments are solid and based on facts, you might be convinced to change your wrong views.

I don’t see how being a public figure should any difference to what I stated. Besides appeasing the crowd, I suppose, which isn’t a good reason to do anything.

No, you’re a normal person.

The internet politics have just turned to rabid purity testing, where even reading what the opposition (of any issue) says is considered endorsement and betrayal.

A sane person will look abnormal in an insane asylum. And I don’t know how to better describe Twitter than an insane asylum.

But let’s just go even further. He was on the podcast of Shawn Stevenson. The first podcast episode I found of Shawn Stevenson regarding COVID cites in the episode transcript, among others, Geert Vanden Bossche, who advised stopping all mass-immunizations for COVID and has written all kinds of crazy, grammatically-and-factually erroneous content on COVID.

I don’t care about Zach Levi whatsoever, but this has to be the biggest reach I’ve seen.

So he was on a podcast, of which the host, in a different episode that did not include him, cited a person who has at some point advised stopping mass-immunizations for COVID (from what you said, I interpreted thats not the statement he cited).

When you’re 3 levels of guilt by association deep, it seems like you’re just grasping at straws to support your position.

WAG can go fuck themselves for stealing the role of Angel Dust from Michael Kovach who has poured so much time and effort into bringing the character to life.

But here comes WAG and stronghands away what he has worked so hard for, something that could have been a big career break for him, because he’s not part of WAG without offering to onboard him.

Creating that level of injustice under the guise of protecting voice actors is one of the most disgusting things I’ve witnessed in my life.

Michael Kovach is a saint for being graceful about it and having the restraint not to go nuclear on social media.

WAG is not a union. It’s just another ultra corrupt Hollywood clique that fucks over upcoming independent creators. I sincerely hope WGA is blacklisted by every studio until every member is forced to leave and it doesn’t exist anymore.

I’m fairly certain executives don’t get residuals, they are salaried employees.

That would make sense if taxis weren’t basically a mafia-like organization in most places.

Here, the taxi drivers are the absolute worst. They drive worse than student drivers. They don’t give two shits about the customers - if you order a taxi and they find someone more convinient hailing them they’ll just pick up that person and never come to pick you up with no notice. They can’t follow basic GPS directions from their device and you often have to guide them.

The taxi companies send any complaints directly into the shredding machine. They have a legally enforced monopoly over a region and customers have no choice.

And I’m talking about a major city in America.

There is definitely a healthy middle ground, but just going back to taxis is not the solution.

He explicitly said risks. If Seth MacFarlane could no longer be used as a voice actor for whatever reason, Family Guy would have been in very big trouble.

Why does the concept of risk need to be explained?

Russia loves people like you who are doing their divide-and-conquer work for them.

Most of the right wing is in support of Ukraine. And every case of the government officials opposing more help for Ukraine I’ve seen was on financial grounds, not because they support Russia.

Support of Ukraine is one of the most bipartisan political position in the nation.

Sounds like the person worked for either free or very cheap in the hopes of advancing in the industry and getting big payouts.

Ironically, they probably took place of someone who stood their ground and demanded upfront pay.

The problem will persist as long as there is a supply of people who are willing to work for free or cheap.

This is very similar to video game development industry. There is a large pool of developers who are passionate about games and are willing to work for cheap with poor working conditions. The only real solution has been to dissuade new developers from trying to enter that niche and work in a different area with double pay and better conditions.

It’s not about being goofy. It’s about repeating the same damn thing for the millionth time. It gets annoying and adds no value to the conversation.

Why does it need to be a disorder? Being a selfish greedy asshole is not a disorder. It can be a result of some disorders, but it doesn’t have to be.

it was still a Predator movie which gives a sense of familiarity that was comforting.

Ugh.

If it takes giving awards to less-than-groundbreaking movies to get more movies with Native casts greenlit, then I’m for it

Ugh. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soft_bigotry_of_low_expectations

How is that despicable? That’s the default position when striking.

• "We demand you do XYZ. "

• "Do don’t want to do XYZ. "

• “Then we refuse to work. We bet it’s financially worse for you than doing XYZ. We can last longer than you.”

• “Ok don’t work then. We bet it’s financially worse for you than working without XYZ. We can last longer than you.”