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2015-11-12 Home Front: Culture Wars

Feds probe discrimination against female Hollywood directors

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Posted by badanov 2015-11-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 ...So very glad that we've solved all our other problems.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2015-11-12 05:28|| 2015-11-12 05:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Nothing could kill hollywood faster than making merit based work illegal.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2015-11-12 06:17|| 2015-11-12 06:17|| Front Page Top

#3 female directors can report anonymously their own experiences of gender bias without fear of retribution

I don't suppose the quality of their product has anything to do with their lack of employment.

Posted by Skidmark 2015-11-12 06:51|| 2015-11-12 06:51|| Front Page Top

#4 ...And it just occurred to me - only in 2015 America can someone whose net worth is north of seven figures go before a committee and cry 'discrimination'....

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2015-11-12 07:34|| 2015-11-12 07:34|| Front Page Top

#5 As Insty says: end the Hollywood tax breaks.

Posted by AlanC 2015-11-12 08:26|| 2015-11-12 08:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Let them make anime

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-11-12 09:12|| 2015-11-12 09:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Nothing could kill hollywood faster than..

....or by bringing back the original 14 year copyright along with one 14 year extension by the original individual artist (not corporations). It would be like a dying star sucking its last helium atoms.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-11-12 09:44|| 2015-11-12 09:44|| Front Page Top

#8 I like it P2K. For all copyrights. There was a reason they were limited in the first place.

Make up some new shit assholes and for fuck's sake stop with the reboots!

Deadpool for Prez!!!

Posted by DarthVader 2015-11-12 10:53|| 2015-11-12 10:53|| Front Page Top

#9 No comment from Roman Polanski.

Posted by Airandee 2015-11-12 11:54|| 2015-11-12 11:54|| Front Page Top

#10 Hollywood leftists are biased and discriminatory? Water is wet.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-11-12 16:22|| 2015-11-12 16:22|| Front Page Top

#11 waste of time and money for a nothing issue.

It's all political - replacing people with obamazombies like they did in the universities and government, and unions, and schools, and....

Posted by newc 2015-11-12 19:03|| 2015-11-12 19:03|| Front Page Top

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