Here’s another idea: Google, get woke.
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The CBC article said diversity policies should not be above criticism – okay, that’s about bureaucracy, fine – but then blew it with the “debate” stuff.
All the people saying “but that’s not what he wrote about” are not doing a very good job of separating the two concepts themselves.
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Oh right, we must debate because there are equal but different theories. Just like evolution and climate change!
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But…but he did! He reduced the number of white male coders at Google by 1, marginally increasing diversity. 
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There are two equal but different theories - is he a stupid fucking asshole or a fucking stupid asshole?
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Yes.
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I’ll admit I did not read that article, @ChickieD, and unless someone wants to vouch that it is truly uplifting and in iambic pentameter, I’m not going to. Because I have heard that song and dance so many times before. I’ve just almost finished collecting, via the State Labor Board, from the last guy who cozied up to me to ask why should he pay for the cow, when he’s getting the milk for free. So done with all the bros
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I read that article that @ChickieD is referencing, and you’re exactly right: let’s take the bro at his word when he SAYS he’s pro-diversity, just wants to discuss the options. Like we’ve never heard that before.
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He’s a flavor of the week. He’ll be forgotten in due time
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I want to believe that will turn out to be true, I really do. On the other hand, I know that Joseph Goebbels didn’t come out of nowhere, and he didn’t work alone. These guys are all trying out for a spot on today’s Team White Supremacy. Far too many of them will succeed in making other people’s lives worse, shorter, or both.
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Sorry, James, but millions of strong, independent women disagree with you:
TL/DR James Cameron is a pompous fucking ass.
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Best take:
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IIRC he thought Rose was a badass woman heroine in Titanic. I remember the first time I saw the film, I was horrified at how many people would have died by someone pulling the crap she did while the ship was sinking.
I suppose it does critique upper-class arranged marriages in the Gilded Age, but that’s a ridiculously easy target, as is how the rich treated the not-rich (and still do).
(Yeah, “first time”. I like watching it for the costumes when I’m sick. Don’t judge.)
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I still haven’t seen Titanic, and it came out 20 years ago
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Me neither. I have no desire to see it.
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Unless you can really groove on costumes and set design, don’t bother.
The best characterisations come from the characters based on real people, who admittedly Cameron took some pains with to ensure the actors physically resembled them. Cathy Bates was lovely as Molly Brown, and both she and Victor Garber as Thomas Andrews get a lot of mileage out of little screen time.
The two main characters and the plot… I’ve come to subscribe to the theory that old Rose is an unreliable narrator and made the whole thing up. It’s the most charitable way of viewing it. The whole idea of a shop sinking so horribly being a sort of “liberation” is just wrong.
I saw it because my ex was curious just what the hell all the money had been spent on.
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My highschool boyfriend took me to see it even though I was not really interested in seeing it. Then he cried after the movie, it was awkward. I mean it’s good to be comfortable with crying in front of your partner, but that plot …
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I saw it back when I was nursing my daughter and I would just sit and watch hours of tv because that chemical that makes you stoned would kick in and all I could do was veg out.
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