I dove down the rabbit hole earlier this evening, and while I'm not sure about the issue of firing someone for 9-year-old tweets (even if the job is a very public one craeting materials dependent on public goodwill to succeed), the sheer volume of rape and pedophile "jokes" makes my skin crawl. I can definitely see why Disney would treat Gunn as a hot potato once once all this got unearthed.
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Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 20, 2018 3:55:00 pm PDT #2336 of 4009
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
askye - Jul 30, 2018 6:32:50 pm PDT #2337 of 4009
Thrive to spite them
And now the cast is defending him and calling for him to be rehired.
He didn't make just one or two jokes. Maybe maybe I could see overlooking that but these jokes were his "thing" and that is just wrong
P.M. Marc - Jul 31, 2018 6:48:29 am PDT #2338 of 4009
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
He's spoken at length in the past about the ways the molestation of a large number of his Catholic school classmates by one of the priests contributed to the fucked-up environment there (he claims that he was never targeted, but he sure was around it, aware of it, and has talked about the adults around not believing what was going on).
I suspect that particular life experience contributes to direction of his edgelord era stupidity.
Scrappy - Jul 31, 2018 11:52:52 am PDT #2339 of 4009
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I am of a mind to forgive, since he has already apologized, and, much more importantly, has not repeated the behavior in almost a decade. One of my brothers had a horrible sense of humor like that (so bad that my mother made him promise not to joke when he gave her eulogy) and only improved in his 50s. He is also a great dad and husband and very kind to all the people around him.His actions have always been ethical, but his words were not. If Gunn was still doing that, then it my reaction would be different.
Jessica - Jul 31, 2018 2:31:17 pm PDT #2340 of 4009
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm just gonna report what JZ said last week:
when Gunn was first hired by Disney he recalls some of his progressive peers saying, "Uh, no, he's said some fairly horrible stuff and you need to look a lot more closely before you sign him on," but they were ignored. And now it's all being framed as leftist pedophile-enabling hypocrisy, when it was lefties who raised the alarm years back.
Tom Scola - Sep 05, 2018 7:40:44 am PDT #2341 of 4009
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Laura - Sep 05, 2018 7:45:58 am PDT #2342 of 4009
Our wings are not tired.
Yes, and rather handily. Primaries, man. [link]
Tom Scola - Sep 05, 2018 2:33:06 pm PDT #2343 of 4009
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Oh, hey, Black Panther is up on Netflix.
Zenkitty - Sep 05, 2018 4:10:02 pm PDT #2344 of 4009
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Pantherrrrr
Larson looks great but I want to see more muscle.
Steph L. - Sep 05, 2018 4:15:45 pm PDT #2345 of 4009
I look more rad than Lutheranism
So, I feel about Captain Marvel the way I felt about Black Panther prior to the movie, which was basically as follows:
Prior to seeing a trailer: Shit, I know nothing about this character (despite T'Challa's inclusion in Civil War) or how he fits into the Marvel universe. I hope this isn't the movie that turns out to be a dud on my personal enjoy-o-meter.
One nanosecond after seeing a trailer: OPENING NIGHT, BETCHES.
I really don't know much about Captain Marvel, and what I do know sounds badass, but I've never read any titles with Carol Danvers in them, so I don't have any kind of emotional hook to the character. But I'm 99% sure the first trailer will suck me in.