Lionsgate called Ender's Game author Orson Scott Card's anti-same-sex marriage views "completely irrelevant" to the forthcoming big-budget movie version of the hit book. A gay rights-oriented sci-fi and pop culture group called Geeks Out organized an online effort to get fans to boycott the movie because of Scott's views. Card's views had become an issue in February when he signed on to write a Superman comic for DC. He later dropped out amid the furor on his views. Harrison FordAsa ButterfieldHailee SteinfeldGavin Hood Bob Orci On July 8, Card tried to pre-empt criticism by issuing a statement to Entertainment Weekly saying the book had nothing to do with his political views and asking for "tolerance" from same-sex marriage supporters because "with the recent Supreme Court ruling, the gay marriage issue becomes moot." 'Star Trek': The Story of the 'Next Generation' Crew's Greatest Movie Billy Dee Williams on Secret 'Star Wars' Lunch With Donald Glover and Finally Playing Two-Face

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With multiple iterations of the same two character types, we hear a lot of same jokes repeated over and over — and it gets old, fast. Joshy's main characters cry, but they're the tears of man-children. All five characters are more or less exaggerated versions of one another: They have mediocre ideas about good hip-hop and jazz; and every time they behave badly, they mutter something about “not usually doing this.”Nothing about this conceit — a bro weekend away — is particularly bad. sons of anarchy hoodie pajamasBut there have been enough movies about guys who need a few days of coke and booze to somehow “realize what matters” or decide they have it pretty good after all. cwb hoodiesIt’s a dude version of Eat, Pray, Love: Eat, Flirt, Booze. authority hoodie philippines

Joshy trades in a zip-up hoodie masculinity that's a close descendent of the kind perpetuated by Woody Allen. Most of the main characters embody an “aw shucks” demeanor that falsely posits itself as anti-bro. Joshy, Ari, and company live this lifestyle for a weekend, not a decade, so — Joshy's logic goes — it ought to go unnoticed that they never use their humor to check their own privilege.So, enough with movies that continue to rehash these tired characters. Enough with white guys whose boredom is slyly self-aggrandizing. bcc hoodieEnough with this masculinity that pretends to be a well-read, progressive alternative to the labor of macho method acting and fratty, college humor. Enough of the boys club built on the idea that there's some kind of nuance to a man who wears slip-on shoes and needs to jumpstart his life with a few days off from his own weary ambivalence. Instead of producing another story about "meh" masculinity — another Hangover, another Drinking Buddies, another psuedo-Apatow dramedy — Hollywood should make movies about people other than the guys we're avoiding on Tinder.

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And right now, that space is a void. Enter a group calling itself Millennials for Revolution, which claims to have raised more than $30,000 over the past few weeks to rent a house on Capitol Hill from where it can launch demonstrations against the impending repeal of the Affordable Care Act, the shredding of environmental regulations, massive tax cuts for the highest earners, and all the other deeply regressive policies liberals dread are coming. The fundraising and aims would be laudable if the group behind them wasn’t such a quick self-parody of left-wing activism. Just look at what Millennials for Revolution plans to call its DC house: “We’re going to take the fight to Trump by building a base right in the heart of Capitol Hill,” the fundraising page reads. “You and Millennials for Revolution are going to open a house—code name ‘District 13’—for activists in residence to counter the Trump Administration’s every move.” For the unaware, District 13 is the rebel faction in The Hunger Games that overthrew the evil Capitol.

But for anyone looking to write off opposition to Trump as delusional, it’s a pre-written joke, and one that’s compounded by the description of the group renting the house. Millennials for Revolution bills itself as a continuation of the youthful groundswell that powered Senator Bernie Sanders in his unsuccessful race for the Democratic nomination. “Millions of us took action this year to get Bernie Sanders into office—now we’re going to take the fight right to DC, up in Donald Trump’s orange face,” the group’s site reads. Setting aside the fact that the mission statement overlooks Sanders’ loss in the primaries—and, please, spare me the commentary about superdelegates; you play by the rules of the league in which you compete—this new group looks to be a pretty solid coalition of environmental, pro-labor, pro-immigrant, pro-minority organizers. Any successful resistance movement needs an activist front, and after this year, no one can deny that people who begin on an ideological fringe can wind up prevailing.

(For example, consider where the President-elect was five years ago.)For one thing, it re-animates a tired trope that DC is like the Capitol of the Hunger Games series: an effete and obscenely wealthy city that rules its nation through a combination of martial law and state-sponsored teenage death matches. While it’s true the Washington area was more prosperous than nearly all other parts of the country in the Obama years, it’s a lazy analogy, to say nothing of the fact that nobody here dresses as immaculately as Donald Sutherland‘s President Snow. The pop-culture nod to “District 13” just reinforces the stereotype that millennials are easily distracted by whatever science-fiction or fantasy series they grew up with. Why not call themselves Dumbledore’s Army or the Rebel Alliance? It’s one thing to look for solace in fiction after a traumatic event, but when right-wing websites are already making fun of those who do, naming your planned protest house after something from a series for young adults just makes you that much easier to dismiss.

So, go ahead and name your protest house after something from a dystopian franchise for teens. Just don’t be surprised when the death-knell cannons go off sooner than you’d like. Did Kellyanne Conway Crash the Office of Government Ethics’ Website? Jeff Bezos Won’t Entirely Rule Out Running for President Sally Quinn Puts Grey Gardens Up for Sale There’s Now a Movement to Free Ollie the Bobcat From the National Zoo It Sure Seems Like the Trumps Are Trying to Use the Presidency to Help Their Businesses Five Questions for a Former Republican Who Thinks Donald Trump Is Ushering in “Evil” Philadelphia Nearly Cracks Top 70 in List of Best Places to Live Melania Trump Settles Lawsuit With Maryland Blogger Ashley Biden Has Launched a Line of Hoodies 100 Very Best Restaurants Kogiya Owners Have a Huge New Korean Barbecue Restaurant This Gin and Tonic Is Served in a Miniature Bathtub 15 Things To Do Around DC This February