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All hail the great and powerful David Ellison! As someone whose forehead is also exceptionally large, I think the fact that his forehead looks like you can project an entire movie in VistaVision on it is pretty fantastic. His lack... Read more...

Scarlett Johansson is often framed as a feminist figure in Hollywood: outspoken about autonomy, pay equity, and women’s agency. Yet alongside that image runs a quieter, consistent pattern, one in which Johansson repeatedly defends, minimizes, or reframes allegations against powerful men she is professionally aligned with. This isn’t about one controversial comment or a single lapse in judgment. It’s about a long-standing tendency to extend grace upward, toward men with cultural capital, while asking the public to accept “complexity” in situations involving abuse.