Bye, bye Guardians

So this is the hill on which the cast of Guardians of the Galaxy wants to die on.

Good riddance.

Let me clarify few things. I think if any of us made dozens "jokes" like the "jokes" James Gunn made, we would all get fired. Especially if we were employed by the company that primarily makes stuff for children. James Gunn shouldn't be treated differently just because he is in Hollywood and he is an "artist". Actually, he should be held to a higher standard as a public person and the director of films targeting kids.

I resent the fact some people, including Dave Bautista (his tweets are just....saddening), created this line of thinking that the only people who have an issue with James Gunn's firing are alt-right freaks, cybernazis and SJW teenage morons. They use that as scapegoat - how lucky for them that it was some right wing wacko who blew the lid here and not just an ordinary person. But however hard some want to push that narrative, it's a lie. There's plenty of people who found the content of those "jokes" so disturbing they cannot fault Disney for this. Plenty of people have kids and agree with Disney because of that fact. Also then there are of course victims of rape and sexual abuse who recognize that making those jokes is despicable and particularly hurtful.

But nope. Must be that everyone agreeing with Disney firing this dude is "alt-right".

A 40 year old man makes "shock humor jokes". Fine. He should be allowed to. But others should be allowed to judge him for it. When you are a grown up and you are making a joke about something that's not just disgusting to any, at least somewhat, decent person out there, but also illegal you should be taking a responsibility and face the consequences. And those consequences may be that one day you could find yourself with a chance of being employed for big money in a company that is famous for making movies for children. And you won't get that chance (which Disney should have done - just never hire him) or have that chance taken away from you because of your past conduct.

Is Hollywood really a place where there are either complete degenerates or just various deviants with various stages of perversions running around? Are there no directors who are talented and who never joked about molesting children? Can you imagine what it feels like for directors, particularly women and people of color, who never made a joke like that, not even once (by the way, I don't think Gunn made those joke 10,000 times but even a dozen I saw was enough for me to think that Disney to be right), let alone several times and who never got their big break to see all that support this guy is receiving?

What the hell was the purpose of these 'jokes' Attention? Well, there you go, he got what he wanted. People bring that "he changed!" "He apologized years ago!" . Only it wasn't apology for those "jokes". Also as it was pointed out repeatedly there are highly questionable jokes made at the expense of female characters in his recent movies. So what's the story here? "Oh, he has grown as a person. He doesn't joke about raping kids anymore, now he just makes misogynistic jokes"?

I am not surprised Chris "I abuse animals" Pratt started spewing Bible quotes and backed this dude up, I'm not surprised Zoe Saldana and Karen Gillian, who both don't even seem much involved in #metoo movement - by the way as someone actually involved in it, thanks so much for showing how selective the outrage is and how some things are wrong until your "fwiend" is fired. That doesn't give more ammo to the haters at all - did this. Forget morality, gotta earn that money, huh "ladies"? Bautista's tweets on this are kinda all you need to know here. Rooker's character is dead anyways, so who cares, huh? But Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper? I'd just go "hey, look, we just provide the voice, we don't really wanna get involved!". Bradley "Oscar front-runner this year" Cooper signed it? Well, he must be loving the overwhelmingly negative reaction to this "statement". And this Pom chick.... It's a good thing she has that attention hungry signature....I suppose in the absence of basic human decency, it will do?

There was an article about how this whole situation hurts Hollywood. Indeed. But for different reasons than pointed out. Pedophilia in Hollywood has been an open secret for years. Now we have stars of Disney movie stating that someone who made dozens of jokes about hurting kids, each time showing disturbing fixation and each time - making a joke about something this terrible -  telling the world "it's not so bad if one can joke about it!" should be allowed to make movies for kids. Actors rallying around this guy, but when Jessica Chastain pointed out Singer is still getting work and that's wrong, who rallied around her? This is worthy of their outrage but that wasn't? All that effort to defend someone who made jokes but they can't use their influence and solidarity to do more? Instead of focusing on eradicating the problem they are defending a guy who creates the climate in which that problem can grow?

 It's an utter moral rot.

This "statement" made by the cast yesterday is so insulting (again, with the 'it's all alt-right' narrative!), so hypocritical, and so stupid (Gunn was fired by Feige's boss's boss. There is no way Disney backs down and neither it should) that while before I was just for Gunn's firing now I'm actively against him and people defending him.

I don't ever wanna see this cast on the screen again. Not because they stand for their "friend". But because they lump everyone who disagrees with them into one group, labeling them, labeling us.

Something which they claim to be against.

Hollywood's hypocrisy strikes again.