Hollywood Is Dying and Good Riddance

"Dying" is overstated. But they are experiencing a reduction in status, a loss of wealth and social position, which for almost everyone, and particularly for narcissists, is a deathly bitter pill.

Did hyperfeminization -- combined with cross-sex playacting, as men act like women and women act like men -- contributed to Hollywood's reduction of status?

It's complicated but the answer is emphatically yes with a side-order of Fuck To The Yeah.

So what caused this? Conservative writers Helen Andrews and Joy Pullmann offer a compelling answer: systemic feminization. In a recent essay that has since gone viral, Andrews explains how so many sectors of the economy and academia have been feminized. Not only do women outnumber men in many institutions, but they are imposing a more feminine culture that encourages "empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition."

Although she largely agrees with Andrews's essay, Pullmann notes that this cultural transformation is not a simple switch from masculinity to femininity. Rather, it's more the takeover of a kind of transgenderism (women acting like men and men acting like women) over traditional gender division: "our society has reversed men and women's roles and in so doing abandoned both masculinity and femininity."

The result is a toxic mishmash of values that combines the worst of both. Instead of masculinity and femininity, we get some confused, aggressive, and arbitrarily applied vision of conformity and safetyism at all levels, with little concern for excellence. In such a system, people advance by maintaining the status quo, pleasing the right people, and discrediting rivals who fail to follow the rules. Success is determined by maximizing harmony and collective self-esteem, not by delivering high-quality products consistently and efficiently.

The American entertainment industry was already feminizing (or transgenderizing) since Obama's presidency--say 2008 onward--but this transformation was made complete by the #MeToo movement 10 years later. In a matter of weeks, serious male filmmakers and producers were canceled and replaced by less offensive substitutes (usually women) willing to compromise quality to push a political message. Perhaps there was some nominal cleaning up of Hollywood as a result of this, and perhaps it helped to empower some unfairly neglected women, but it all came at the heavy cost of ceasing to produce movies and shows that normal people would care to watch.

The palm-fingering Weird Sisters of the gay Oz movie have been put on hold, possibly because the studio just doesn't want them weirding the public out before the second part of Wicked debuts.

Wacko Wicked Press Tour Put on Ice After Erivo's Voice Fails and Grande Opts Out "In Solidarity" -- Did Universal Pull the Plug on Weird Interviews?

November 18, 2025

The Wicked: For Good [the part two sequel] press tour was abruptly suspended in New York City just days before the movie's release, with Hollywood outlets claiming Cynthia Erivo "lost her voice" and Ariana Grande refused to continue press appearances without her.

But the official narrative isn't sitting well with online observers. After all, since when does a singer temporarily losing her voice require a full-blown solidarity pact from her co-star, complete with the studio shutting down scheduled interviews?

It's a question fans, influencers, and industry watchers have been asking nonstop since the news broke. Speculation has only intensified because the Wicked press tour had already become something of a spectacle for reasons Universal probably didn't anticipate.

Long before the Wicked: For Good press tour was pulled, fans noticed something unusual about the promotional circuit. Instead of straightforward discussions about the film, fans were treated to a highlight reel of baffling moments featuring Grande and Erivo seemingly locked in their own private wavelength -- one that didn't always translate to the rest of the audience. Or, you know, Planet Earth...

Here, a dirty man vigorously shook Ariana Grande's hand in a "hail the victor" sort of way. She pretended her arm was injured, and her lesbian co-star kissed it to "make it better." This guy isn't a rando; it's Marc Platt, producer of the movie. He's promoting the movie, too.

Erivo always seems on the edge of a panic attack or nervous breakdown so Ariana Grande is always soothing her with uncomfortab-to-look-at hand holding.

Sometimes it's just finger-holding.

If it sounds like I'm implying a lesbian relationship, I'm not necessarily claiming that. But I am claiming that they are definitely putting on a show of lesbian touching for the largely-gay fan base of the movie. Almost every gay-crazy twitter account is celebrating this touchy-touchy cringefest, some saying "We're winning!" As in, "gays and lesbians are winning, just look at these Hollywood adult pretenders engaging in lesbian hand-play." Erivo is a very out lesbian, and Ariana Grande is either a convert or else is just role-playing. Gay 4 Pay, as they say.

Below, the lesbian-coded pair celebrate each other's "auras" and Cynthia Erivo has some kind of mental crisis over hearing a helicopter overhead. Ariana Grande responds by, as usual, touching her and soothing her.

Below, Rainn Wilson says that he spoke with his liberal friends about the Charlie Kirk assassination and they said "no tears shed" and otherwise praised/supported the execution. Wilson objects (and thank goodness, otherwise I couldn't enjoy Dwight's antics as much).

Mark Ruffalo seems to argue with him, stating that if you support gun rights you are "tacitly" blessing gun violence. He is implying that Kirk got what he deserved.

He claims his brother was "murdered" and is a "victim of gun violence," which is... very debatable. More on that after the video.

Via Cecil Says, declaring Ruffalo to be "the biggest piece of shit in Hollywood."

Was Mark Ruffalo's brother "murdered"?

Well -- he was shot in the head, but the initial ruling was suicide or an "accidental discharge." He had mental problems and a near-witness present with him on the night of his death says that he talked about playing Russian Roulette before she left.

A coroner later claimed that the entry point of the bullet was more consistent with a shooting, but others dispute that.

And this is important: Despite the police knowing who was present in the room when the gun came to fire into Scott Ruffalo's head, the "homicide" remains unsolved.

Unsolved? With a suspect list of two or three people?

That sounds more to me like they're saying they cannot tell if it was a suicide or an "accident" or just playing Russian Roulette, but a connected family can't accept the suicide ruling -- most families reject a suicide ruling, but most families don't have a Hollywood celebrity to make noise about it -- so the police are claiming this easily-solved homicide is "unsolved." (Suicides are a subcategory of homicide -- death by the hand of another person.)

Ruffalo is definitely attempting to make this All About Me and also suggest that Charlie Kirk essentially died by his own hand, because he supported people's right to carry guns for self-defense against left-wing criminals.

Since I'm doing a Hollywood post, I'll link this, but I continue to be as unimpressed by Bill Maher as I always have been. Once I was unimpressed by him because he was a comedian who just wasn't funny -- and couldn't stop laughing at his unfunny jokes -- and now I'm also unimpressed by his ability to sometimes not deny the undeniable.

On the other hand, Patton Oswalt is also aggressively unfunny but also continues to deny the undeniable.

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This is Bill Maher at his best.

Maher dragged Patton Oswalt out of his bubble and forced him to confront the brutal reality of the UK's immigration crisis.

He exposed the horrifying details of Muslim grooming gangs, while Oswalt tried to play dumb.

Maher didn't let him.

MAHER: "What's going on in England right is a lot of that."

OSWALT: "What's going on in England?"

MAHER: "Again, not in the bubble...a lot of violence, protests, immigration."

"Andrew Sullivan, for example, says places that my grandfather would not even recognize anymore as British."

"Like, immigration is great, anything can be too much. It's become 'Islamicized' to put it briefly."

Oswalt tried to hand-wave it away.

OSWALT: "Anything can be too much, but a lot of times the way that things are framed and represented, is also amplified so that they can make their point."

Maher hit him with the bombshell.

MAHER: "But do you know about...the grooming scandal?"

OSWALT: "No."

MAHER: "See, that's a big story!"

He then laid out the details the left refuses to confront:

"I'm talking about Pakistani men, who were immigrants, who were grooming poor, impoverished White girls, mostly, and making them into prostitutes and sex slaves."

"Like really nasty shit, that would pass for more normal in a traditional Pakistani society, where women are not considered equal citizens."

Maher then delivered his most devastating point:

"And if you don't understand that, and that gender apartheid is the number one issue that you woke people should be concerned with, but seem not to be, then right away we're not really seeing the world as the same way."

"I'm seeing it much more clearly."

"Gender apartheid should be your NUMBER ONE issue, if you really care about oppression, like a lot...I'm talking about hundreds of millions of the world's women."

"And it's mostly because of the tenets of Islam, to be perfectly honest about it."

"In the interest of DEI, they are allowing practices that are so illiberal--which is the great irony--this is the LEAST liberal thing you could be is treating women as a second-class citizen and getting away with shit like this."

posted by Ace at 03:17 PM

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