Captain Kirk, you failed on your mission. The Oscars still got ruined.

[fiction_theory]

If you don't get what happened surrounding Quvenzhané Wallis you need to go read this post about the matter from author NK Jemisin. If you don't get why it was so bad and why so many people are (rightfully) angry about it - you need to read it twice. Maybe three times

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[anghara]

I yelled at "but it was just a JOKE" and "chill out" and "don't get your knickers in a twist" people in a Facebook conversation - and it seemed to be utterly impossible to GET THROUGH TO THESE ENTITLED WHITE MALE SOBs just WHY I was getting my "knickers in a twist" - one of them sarcastically said that no doubt I would get a personal phone call from that poor kid who was the butt of everyone's "snickersnickerscnickeritissofunnytocallherTHATWORD" attitude last night. The same person who said that also said that if someone had levelled the same word at his own daughter he'd have had that person's balls on a plate. Oh, so your daughter is off limits, dude, and everyone else's is fair game, especially if she happens to be a child of colour, is that it