Wednesday, December 03, 2014

"It's like saying 'You're a very important person. Let's begin.'"

Adam Scott gets it.


See, all males are potential rapists, so it naturally follows...  Pedophile Panic at the Salvation Army: No Teen Boys Allowed, Too Dangerous - Hit & Run : Reason.com: "When it comes to helping families in need, the Salvation Army turns a cold shoulder to one class of people: Teenage boys. A family in Johnson City, TN, found this out recently when, on a freezing cold night, they asked the organization for shelter. But because their family of five contained a 15-year-old boy, they were turned down.  As the dad, Tim Lejeune, explained to WMC Action News 5: "They said he's too old to stay on the women's side, because of the women running around in their pajamas and they said he's too young to stay on the men's side in case some pervert wants to do whatever..."

So instead the family headed to their car. The temperature: 18 degrees. Somehow, local police officers came upon them and brought them to the Johnson Inn. The officers then pooled their money to pay for a room. When the night clerk figured out what was going on, he comped the room, so the officers' money went to groceries for the family. Meantime, 911 dispatchers who had been in on the action pooled their money to provide the Lejeunes some more food. And after that, the Salvation Army did take the family in—minus the teen boy. He's not sleeping on the streets. He's now in a mental health facility. He had a breakdown, his dad says, because he thought it was his fault the family was turned away from shelter. I blame a society so obsessed with sex crimes and predators that it has lost its mind. It cannot imagine a 15-year-old male, chilled to the bone, simply and gratefully sleeping through the night. In our worst-first fantasies, which we give the weight of fact, all young men are either innocent victims about to be violated by predators, or predators eager to prey upon innocent victims."


  

This has awesome potential.  From the writer of "Training Day."  Suicide Squad has always been a supervillain 'Dirty Dozen' - I wonder if they'll go all-in and take an R rating?  Probably not, but still... 
"Suicide Squad" Cast Revealed with Jared Leto as Joker - Comic Book Resources: "As reported by Variety, Warner Bros. has revealed the core cast of its 2016 "Suicide Squad" film, with Jared Leto as Joker, Will Smith as Deadshot, Tom Hardy as Rick Flag, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Jai Courtney as Boomerang and Cara Delevigne as Enchantress. As previously reported, the film will be directed by David Ayer and produced by Charles Roven. Variety also stated that "Batman v Superman" star Jesse Eisenberg is "also in talks" to reprise his role as Lex Luthor for "Suicide Squad"; and the role of Amanda Waller has yet to be cast -- though Warner Bros. is reportedly considering Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer and Oprah Winfrey, with the latter said to be the studio's top choice." 


APE IN A CAPE: "ComicsAlliance: So – let’s talk about the future. What can you tell me about your plans for the Secret Six relaunch? Gail Simone: It’s funny, because going back is always tricky, so one thing I wanted to do right away was not simply recreate what we had before. This is a different team and there are different themes. But I still want a vibrant, sexy, funny, violent cast, I want the kind of “oh, my god, what the f*ck just happened?” kind of vibe that the first book had. Again, it’s weird in a way that with these anti-heroes and villains, you can often show more humanity than you can with the big names, who aren’t always allowed to show their weak side... My thing with the Secret Six is that they never win. The odds are always against them, everyone wants them gone. So they never win. But they never give up, either."



Colbert's geekcred is powerful.

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