The Old Hack

Which once again boils down to cishet racist assumptions. They altogether disregard the fact that it is not about 'offending minorities' but rather making movies for an entire untapped market. They use excuses like "There is no money in movies about women/Blacks/insert minority of choice" and happily bumble on because an unrealised profit doesn't show up in the budget.

You would ship too if it happened to you.

"It's my fanfic and I'll ship if I want to, ship if I want to, ship if I want to..."

All that is not a reason for using white actors. It's a justification. Or, if you like, switching the burden of responsibility for racism and bigotry to the SAG. I am not buying it.

In your opinion, yes -- but not in the opinion of girls and women looking for role models and heroes of their own. The point of diversity in movies is that as long as we do not have full representation, those who don't get represented feel left out.
(At one point, a teenage gay boy wrote Mark Hamill a fan letter in which he wondered if Luke Skywalker might be gay. Mark Hamill wrote back that he saw absolutely no reason that Luke couldn't be. Such a seemingly small gesture but it allowed a boy to feel included instead of left out...)

In your opinion, yes -- but not in the opinion of girls and women looking for role models and heroes of their own. The point of diversity in movies is that as long as we do not have full representation, those who don't get represented feel left out.
(At one point, a teenage gay boy wrote Mark Hamill a fan letter in which he wondered if Luke Skywalker might be gay. Mark Hamill wrote back that he saw absolutely no reason that Luke couldn't be. Such a seemingly small gesture but it allowed a boy to feel included instead of left out...)

In your opinion, yes -- but not in the opinion of girls and women looking for role models and heroes of their own. The point of diversity in movies is that as long as we do not have full representation, those who don't get represented feel left out.
(At one point, a teenage gay boy wrote Mark Hamill a fan letter in which he wondered if Luke Skywalker might be gay. Mark Hamill wrote back that he saw absolutely no reason that Luke couldn't be. Such a seemingly small gesture but it allowed a boy to feel included instead of left out...)

In your opinion, yes -- but not in the opinion of girls and women looking for role models and heroes of their own. The point of diversity in movies is that as long as we do not have full representation, those who don't get represented feel left out.
(At one point, a teenage gay boy wrote Mark Hamill a fan letter in which he wondered if Luke Skywalker might be gay. Mark Hamill wrote back that he saw absolutely no reason that Luke couldn't be. Such a seemingly small gesture but it allowed a boy to feel included instead of left out...)

In your opinion, yes -- but not in the opinion of girls and women looking for role models and heroes of their own. The point of diversity in movies is that as long as we do not have full representation, those who don't get represented feel left out.
(At one point, a teenage gay boy wrote Mark Hamill a fan letter in which he wondered if Luke Skywalker might be gay. Mark Hamill wrote back that he saw absolutely no reason that Luke couldn't be. Such a seemingly small gesture but it allowed a boy to feel included instead of left out...)

Mph. This is the usual problem when someone invents a rough rule of thumb and others then try to apply it as if it were a precision tool. It originated simply as a filter for whether the inventor could be bothered to see a movie or not. If it passed the test, she might give it a chance; if not, she considered it a lost cause.
It's the same thing with the Kinsey scale. The true value of both the Kinsey scale and the Bechdel test is that they show there is something to pay attention to. Having now served that purpose, we really need to progress to more advanced tools.

There is no comparison. Twilight Sparkle has more sense (common AND horse) in her left rear hoof than may be found in the entirety of the Twilight book series.

And even then, it does not work well as a rule of thumb on how misogynistic a movie is or not. A movie could theoretically star only females, and not mention men at all, and yet be very offensive by portraying only the most negative female stereotypes.

Indeed. Today's strip was the tail end of the midjinks.

I'm really glad to see someone raising awareness of what OCD really is. Sometimes it's like sharing your head with a bully who actively hates you and picks at your every single fault - imagined or otherwise. Sometimes it involves cataloguing every single mistake or bad thing in your life and repeatedly stewing on them. The part that people see is only a tiny fraction of it, and it almost unanimously it seems to make them feel like they are the real victims of your condition. Which is awful.
But mostly it's like having a godamn fire alarm klaxon going off in your head almost constantly, with the brief silences that almost make things worse by showing you just how good it is when that sodding alarm isn't going off. A truly OCD person can become stressed over literally nothing because their brain invents hypotheticals that are often impossible or stupidly unlikely.
And yeah, a lot of the time preforming a specific repetitive action switches off that alarm for a while and soothes your nerves. That action can be tidying, or flipping a light switch to make sure it's off, or washing your hands to get rid of germs, chemicals, or just vague 'contaminates'.
Or arguing on the internet to quell the little voice that says 'the other guy is right'.
 

What upsets me most about those books and movies is that there is now more than a generation who do not associate the name "Twilight" with the work of Rod Serling.

There is no comparison. Twilight Sparkle has more sense (common AND horse) in her left rear hoof than may be found in the entirety of the Twilight book series.

There is no comparison. Twilight Sparkle has more sense (common AND horse) in her left rear hoof than may be found in the entirety of the Twilight book series.

Twilight isn't the vampire, Fluttershy is.
Oh.  Wait, you mean the other one.  My bad.

Yes, because Americans who flee to Canada because the US Federal Government is too liberal for their tastes are going to the wrong country.

Much like The Lord of the Ring starts with Frodo as the hero, it ends with Sam as the hero.

*honk*
Make that several buckets plus one of popcorn.

Wow. That will require several buckets of popcorn. And here I was thinking that I could just as well crawl into bed as there was nothing interesting on TV. Thanks for saving my Friday night. 
 

I did like it when gay marriage was legalised all over the US and some people were like, "That's it. I'm moving to Canada," and the Canadians were like, "Uh..."

Indeed. Today's strip was the tail end of the midjinks.

I did like it when gay marriage was legalised all over the US and some people were like, "That's it. I'm moving to Canada," and the Canadians were like, "Uh..."