WE REACT TO LEAKED WRITERS MEETING ON "SENSITIVITY" READING | Film Threat Rants

[@dr.medieval1131]

Sensitivity reading is really a political dogma screening. Very 1920's Soviet in nature. All scripts must be approved by the party before filming.

[@Madeoftea]

For real tho

[@AllanTidgwell]

Why do you think one of the first points of Hollywood subversion the Soviets went for was the Script Readers Union?

[@juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370]

Well, those assclowns praise Communism...

[@katylee1914]

All the book publishers have been doing this for years now. All fiction published by the NY publishing houses is screened by in-house sensitivity readers, who of course are “people of color” only. (I think that includes Spanish speaking or black, but not Asians)

[@edwardp7725]

Actually chilling. History indeed repeats itself.

[@Lark572]

"Hi I'm a fragile little 23 year old with no life experience outside of college who is going to speak on behalf of millions of strangers and tell you what you can and can't say! I'm going to filter YOUR hard work through MY worldview!"

[@Doutsoldome]

"And don't you dare, like, to disagree with me, because that's harassment, like, by definition!"

[@sigmacademy]

There's also the part of where they want to create a product based on committee and want other people to write their stories for them. Might explain why entire plot threads LITERALLY go nowhere and there's a lack of a cohesive story being told - they are not writing fiction (because they don't know how to do so) - they are just copying what other people told them (which might or might not be based on actual events or issues).

[@guitarhero8110]

You forgot to insert the word "like" every forth word.

[@BoinkrNanis]

The best part about this being done in hollywood is that people dont HAVE to see any movies and if we know before a trailer drops, what to expect, their industry will simply die unless they put their hammer down and start telling them, no decade long job experience, no say in what were doing.

[@eeddieedwards3890]

@@Doutsoldome Spot on!

[@boytype]

"Worked on the last 3 seasons of The Flash" should immediately disqualify you as a qualified writer.

[@ViperChief117]

I literally said “Yeah making garbage content.” At that part. XD

[@EnsignRedshirtRicky]

"worked on" is also code for "not writing". They most likely just filled out the WGA quota, so they sat around and tried not to learn anything. After all, once you are a Master what else is there to learn?

[@Cloxxki]

To brag or to deny, that is the question.

[@HighPlainsDrifter53]

Yeah that's embarrassing. "We basically race and gender swapped a bunch of people and made sure the show got canceled and sucked, so yeah"

[@ViperChief117]

@@EnsignRedshirtRicky I’m a writer in my spare time and have written more screenplays than my friends in the industry who haven’t written anything and they are working in Hollywood. I don’t brag about that shit. Lol

[@lostcause78]

It's like 50% scam, 50% insanity.

[@CleverGirlAAH]

And both are relying on each other for survival. That's why it works. The sociopaths protect the insane. And the insane protect the sociopaths.

[@Darrylizer1]

And 100% unnecessary.

[@chris911ny]

I would say 30% scam 70% insanity...

[@thisguyoverhere001]

100% communist

[@unisophia]

exactly!

[@Snoresalot]

This is crazy. Why would a billion dollar company let these children write anything.

[@lunarvision]

Like middle school pretend time. Absolutely out of their depth.

[@RobNeeth]

Corporate is run by a very specific type of people. Essentially, they're all middle management personalities - especially the people at the top. They are 'yes-men'. They don't rock the boat, they fit in, they aren't bright. So they're just going along with what's popular: feminism. Oh wait, you people are still androphobs. Woke. They push woke. It's popular, so the yes-men just go along with it. It's a coincidence that feminism is the philosophy of the mentally ill, and thus destroys everything it touches. If being competent were popular, those same yes-men would be succeeding.

[@Slitheringpeanut]

They're cheap and expendable. Also, Blackrock, Vanguard and State Street demand it. And they have the literal TRILLIONS to make it happen.

[@UsserError]

It's easy to see what the issues are with these new shows. These kids look like they have nothing to offer.

[@Banner-18]

Because they will write whatever they are told to no matter how dumb it is with zero pushback. Oh and they will work for minimum wage as well.

[@ProfessorMurf]

What we are witnessing is the death of art.

[@johnnyfive9815]

This is just a group of women talking

[@Banner-18]

And what is more depressing is the whole thing is by design as well.

[@JamesScholes]

I wouldn't say it's a death of an art, more like Hollywood.

[@beamanact]

We need a new wave of independent, low budget film making with great stories and fresh energy--we need a new Cassavetes, early Scorsese, etc. The unions are captured and experienced and talented writers are being shut out.

[@robertgray1365]

AKA communism.

[@deanberdon2572]

These professionals Say the word "like" as if they are still in grade school

[@ReierGotter]

It’s grating to even listen to

[@Doutsoldome]

So what? Are you saying that _writers_ should have some command of the language? Why would they need that? All they need is a sensitivity reader...

[@BrendanPatrickGrace]

To be funny for a second - yes, absolutely, especially as people who claim or want to claim to have command over the English language, it’s awful. Now to be serious- most people use ‘like’, ‘um’, ‘ahh/uhh’ more times than they realize. If you were talking casually with people on video or not and didn’t know someone would be analyzing your speech you would probably have more than you think. Even as someone who has deliberately tried for years to practice removing my crutch words, I still use them frequently from time to time in a professional setting and then I regret it afterwards when someone calls me out on it.

[@jooptablet1727]

Around the 28:00 mark it's all I could hear from the girl. Bizarre.

[@Evasius]

27:25 - LIKE Count, this person says ‘like’ 39 times to make her point. This is a writer? Words are her profession? Some instances were even back to back.

[@zeeteethreedee]

They're all more worried about authentic representation of identity groups than actual story

[@Red_Devil_2011]

They certainly have no problem writing about White people, with no experience being White, and using every demonizing trope, stereotype, and slanderous narrative they can imagine.

[@josiahkepley]

They're really not though, they want to present the pretense of authenticity and pat themselves on the back for it. If any of these people spent a day quietly listening to actual military members speaking they'd collapse into themselves, they'd never actually write service members remotely as they are because they don't fit the ideology in play here.

[@kylemenos]

nah they're worried the higher ups in the pyramid scheme will cancel them.

[@johndillinger5142]

Grifters, no other word for it. Monetized racism.

[@AdamWeisshaupt]

I heard that at school before that a race controls the media and must be removed. That is similar to that, because they have also a very strict class system. That was the propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. It seems that Hollywood thinks that the Nazis were right.

[@psytrancedj]

I know that Roadmap Writers is attempting to get this video taken down or deleted. It is extremely important that Film Threat resists this effort at censorship. The fair use of the video and accompanying commentary and critique by Chris and Alan is the essence of journalism and very much needed in today's world.

[@lunatic0verlord10]

They really can't take criticism.

[@gilbertlopez9097]

Groan, if they're so proud of what they stand for and believe, why are they afraid of being exposed like this?

[@lunatic0verlord10]

@@gilbertlopez9097 Because they're villains. Proud of their villainy, but afraid of being caught.

[@xipheonj]

This is why mentors need to be the actual older masters, not the young and arrogant beginners who are at the peak of the dunning-kruger curve. Every year I realize how arrogantly stupid I was the year before and I'm past middle age now. Hearing these children give advice is incredibly painful.

[@yaimavol]

Hollywood has always been that way though. They always assume the young are more connected to what is trendy

[@lunarvision]

This has to be the least talented, most insufferable gathering of people.

[@chazzitz-wh4ly]

Yeah, and I’ve been to a daycare.

[@JayM928]

It’s a close second to that bizarre show all those late night show hosts did during the strike.

[@nigelbagguley7606]

This makes "the blind leading the blind" look like a practical methodology.

[@Alakazzam09]

They're so smug and insufferable. There is no room in these peoples' hearts for creativity. I'm tired of being lectured to by hateful people.

[@christopherortiz9330]

No masculinity in that meeting whatsoever

[@eval7952]

Which also means no creativity, no testosterone.

[@AngelineProductions]

Hi! I’m a woman who’s a writer and opposes sensitivity readers. And testorerone has nothing to do with creative ability.

[@anthonybrett]

@@eval7952 Can you prove that? Hormonal interactions aside, a creative writer needs a perfect blend of femineity and masculinity. That puts you in touch with both sexes. Males are hardly all masculine just as women are hardly all feminine. The balanced writer is the best writer.

[@Denneska]

​@AngelineProductions Hi. I'm a writer too. Not as a profession but still a good one. In my humble opinion, I believe that in general (not in 100% of cases!), men are better writers. I think it's because, in general, men have more life experience than women. Life is harder on men so they have more to share and more skills. A man who went through WW1 would have more to say than a housewife. Do you get agree ? After all, most of the greatest writers and thinkers are men.

[@aztro187]

They all so entitled to

[@Lark572]

Does anyone remember when we all kind of just understood that the purpose of art was to cut through our superficial differences and touch our common humanity? Ahhh. Those were the days.

[@Doutsoldome]

Yep, I remember. Nostalgically.

[@Jon-eo1lz]

Wait… humans used to have things in common?

[@JB-ti7bl]

"Modern critics" now deem shows like Diff'rent Strokes and Webster to be racist. That's stupid. These shows actually took steps toward integrated family scenarios. Much more meaningful than, say, shoe-horning a black police chief into a drama set in 19th century London.

[@nicholasanderson7316]

@@JB-ti7blit’s cause most don’t have the “lived experience” or “understanding” of culture before they existed. Their entire idea of women’s roles, racism, etc. comes from activist talking points with much context of history missing from their discussions. That’s why we get a bunch of young people who believe they are living in the worst country with (for the most part) no actual encounters with real racism or violence. Just difference of opinion on matters that are way more nuanced than how black and white, which criticism to them is deemed aggressive and violent speech. For example, you live in a pretty equal society between the sexes when young women’s major concerns are a guy staring for a second too long at them in the gym. Talk about when the supply doesn’t meet the demand, yet sexism is so rampant… and it really proves the point that they are so entitled that they think their feelings and perception of things matter more than other’s right to speak and the truth of what actually happened.

[@nicholasanderson7316]

The only way to fight bad art is with better art. They will learn the hard way when their worldview doesn’t actual match up with how the world actually is. The customers will eventually all start to leave and the money will be lost and they will be fired and not hired anymore based on fitting some perverted identity check box. What’s the word they love to use?…. Oh that’s right, they’re very “problematic.”

[@AdrianneCurryRhode]

I'd rather die than watch anything these people write

[@BobbyFett3994]

Don’t do that.🛑✋🏾 Just watch something that’s better than the CRAP masquerading as art, these clowns are writing and creating.

[@2ToyBoys]

"You can't, like, write a Star Trek, you've, like, never been to space, like right?

[@JULEMANDEN99]

Well here os the Thing ot has been used for years now its the reason why tv series are bad all from rewriting animes to batgirl, rework feminisme into it say this type of people are bad force a sertain worldwiev into it so the story becomes sterile...

[@Superabound2]

You rock! Smart, based, and still as hot as you were 20 years ago!

[@d0x360]

Anyone else feel like the mark is the Asian girl and chat then the 2 dudes who can't stop smiling like creepers and the other 2 chicks are all together to talk the Asian & chat into feeling more comfortable buying consulting from this creepy ass company?

[@SimmeringPotpourri]

A writer who says, "like" that many times...point to the exit door.

[@marineboy1964]

I am feeling physically sick watching this No one has got a backbone

[@TheNefastor]

They have to be warned to be prepared to face "deep conversations". Geeeeezus imagine them on a Ukrainian battlefield facing Russian criminals pulled from jail by the Wagner PMC... 💀

[@jonathanlee6098]

This is why the concept of a meritocracy is SO important.

[@00ga-booga]

This kind of stuff stretches a 15 minute meeting into 4 hours. Everyone walking on eggshells, worrying about everyone's feelings. No wonder movies cost so much more to make.

[@xavierdraco33]

What happened to America?! These children are afraid of their own shadows and dull beyond dull.

[@mrcliff3709]

Helicopter Parenting

[@veggsbacon1891]

Bad parenting, constant social media usage, believing delusions, hasn't been told NO a lot, privileged living (I think), etc.

[@chazzitz-wh4ly]

Participation trophies and “you’re special” treatment alongside nihilistic marxist theory.

[@WickedScott]

Simple coddling.

[@oisinoc]

Testosterone deficiency, those two guys looks like adolescence gave up on them before the job was done

[@stephanegingras9666]

These morally superior clowns just gave me an additional reason to stick to my precious movies collection.

[@AdamWeisshaupt]

I agree. If sensitivity is really their goal, they have completly failed. Not only you are annoyed of them. The whole world is. A fact which they could have know, if they were really so sensitive for the feelings of others.

[@moe6906]

I agree. Glad I have my movie collection to watch.

[@Paola05]

Exactly!

[@jamesburke4358]

50 yo ex film union member here. Bummer not to look forward to anything newly made. However, my watchlist dating back to pre-code has grown. There's plenty new for a film buff to discover. Physical media restoration releases are up even though they are absent in retail.

[@johnnyfive9815]

I think their middle class children they should just be editing writing from regular people who actual have real lived experience or knowledge

[@leandercarey]

I don't think I would take any kind of writing advice from someone who uses the word "like" 37 times in 60 seconds.

[@johnstanhope2436]

Amen to that!

[@backalleycqc4790]

"Billy? Like, tell me about your story..." "Like like, there's this guY, and he has a moTHER, and like like she diES, and he's saD, and like like he's really really sad... And thEN, like like he finds another moTHER, yeah, like like another moTHER, in this other woMAN [three hours later]... like like, like that.. "

[@grimlock8369]

Excessive use of the word "like" drives me fucking insane. They're not writers.

[@ReierGotter]

It’s cringe to even listen to. It’s like peak Zoomer speak

[@Nerdiness1985]

It's grating tot he ears isn't it? Immediately puts any flow of a conversation to a screeching halt.

[@TheNefastor]

"Awesome" kills me. That word is clearly abused by people who have never been in awe, or they wouldn't use it so often.

[@grimlock8369]

@@Nerdiness1985 sure does.

[@philo2077]

English is not my first language - but this sounds as a professional conference with a lot of non english speakers. I also love how they use "...ish", "things", ...

[@MAFion]

These people really do live in a bubble. It isn't art, not anymore. It's just content in a PC dystopia.

[@phantomstarlight1366]

"sensitivity reading" literally just means "find problems for us" What do you think will happen when your JOB is to find problems? You are going to find some even if you have to make them up so you can still have a job. It's beyond obvious that the whole concept is flawed. Just hearing them describe what "sensitivity reading is" all I can hear is them being concerned about virtue signalling.

[@johnstanhope2436]

That is the TRUTH!

[@SchlockbusterVideo]

I got offended one time. Then I got over it. I did not need the HR department to get involved.

[@00ga-booga]

I'm gonna start selling "Sensitivity Offsets" to the entertainment industry. It'll allow them to make movies like Blazing Saddles again, and, uh, I'll get rich.

[@kerrylawson7515]

They all talk like 13 YO Valley girls. Painful.

[@sigmacademy]

It's like watching a poker table. You know only one person is gonna walk away with the whole lunch, but everyone around the table thinks he or she will be that one person who's gonna get it all. They are gonna be TERRIBLY disillusioned when their "hit shows" fail in the nearby future and nobody wants to hire them because of their failing output.

[@beamanact]

What's insulting is the assumption that any decent writer who is working on a project that has a setting or characters outside the writer's personal experience is A) not going to research every aspect of the setting and characters and B) is going to reflexively write something insensitive or offensive or stereotyped.

[@teastrainer3604]

Notice how "sensitive" they are toward anyone who disagrees with them. They will attack that person savagely and try to deprive him of a living.

[@wolfofragnarok1]

And frequently the writer won't have any need to specifically call out the demographic of the character to the reader. The reader might infer but the background of a character being black or Asian tends to take a hard back seat to them being blessed by a god or given a device that will end the world.

[@DoodleThis]

We LITERALLY created a new group of people who are more fragile then rice paper.

[@zenon3021]

"rice" paper? Because they are Asian? I AM OFFEND!

[@harbl99]

Domesticated animals don't rebel. It's as simple and horrific as that.

[@imnotatroll6301]

Ohhh Dios mio!!! You need some sensitive rider to look over your comments before post them, you would harm some one with those.

[@sigmacademy]

WE didn't create them - THEY accepted lies as the holy truth. And some part of me likes to think it's because they lack imagination and creativity and KNOW their days are numbered because more and more people are rejecting "their type of writing" and going with people who have ACTUAL imagination and creativity. ALL of their "right kinds of shows" will eventually fail, and with them proudly proclaiming their involvement, they just told EVERYONE who is to blame when it does. We already know that the streaming services are slashing non-profitable shows left and right, and my instincts tell me these type of writers will end up in the unemployment lines eventually.

[@your_belief_vs_everything]

The thing I am most appalled at is the language these supposed writers are using. Not specifically the "woke" ideology but the pedantic discourse. Every other word is "like" or "umm". These people are writers yet they do not even seem to possess the vocabulary of a person who has read a book that wasn't located in the YA section.

[@TotesRandom]

As an editor by trade, i find the greatest threat to creativity and immersion in the book industry are the two words "sensitivity reader."

[@katylee1914]

Is this brand new to screenwriting? It’s been around for years in novel publishing.

[@spiff1]

or just Feminism, one word

[@spiff1]

not the Woke kind@@katylee1914

[@bobulationnation]

They are so indoctrinated and have no imagination, they will probably be working on a Star Wars movie soon

[@johnstanhope2436]

🤣

[@wyredmusic]

This is not the environment for creative writing. Holy shit…

[@mxvega1097]

Uh, minor question - for the group, in a sharing, consenting manner - is there any evidence that sensitivity reading leads to better writing? If not, if just looks like a make-work scheme for unemployable humanities grads.

[@TaoScribble]

I've heard that it used to be good for ensuring the realism of things one might not have gone through by bouncing it off people that are knowledgeable in that situation. For example: I don't know what it's like to have schizophrenia, so I could bounce my portrayal off a few people that do to get their reactions and feedback. As far as I'm aware, it wasn't really a job/career: It was equivalent to handing someone a brief survey. You might hire one or two for a project, but they'd be more like your dedicated beta readers. Unfortunately, it's been turned into a grift that no longer serves its purpose.

[@wolfofragnarok1]

It can be. But generally the readers in question will be several members of the community that you are writing for. See Moana for how they approached details about the culture. Getting "writers" to do the read is general pointless. Or if you are writing a murder mystery that involves a specific profession in detail, getting several people from that profession to point out the issues has value.

[@wagnersouza4463]

I don't know in USA,, but here in Brazil it's called laboratory. The actors and writers go thru this particular reality for a couple of times to research the issue, so they can portray it better ( Moana and Coco did it very well ). The whole sensitivity reader is a total opposite that, they just pick some random people to represent the one group of people, this is literally how stereotyping works. hahahahaa

[@kbaccari88]

This is the most ponderous group of people I've ever heard. The woman moderator is a nightmare

[@NomdePlume337]

It should be absolutely illegal for anyone who worked on the last 3 seasons of The Flash to give advice to new writers

[@paulianhodgson]

Unless it's "don't do this" 😅

[@loufher284]

These people aren't "writers" They're "HACKS"

[@jamesburke4358]

Hack is too much of a compliment. I thought Hacks usually accomplished something great, then get lazy. These employed things on screen here wont even create anything close to watchable enough to get to the hack stage.

[@UsserError]

pre-hacks.... they'd need to find an experienced hack to mentor them.

[@TheNefastor]

Hobbyists at best.

[@ryanpeck3377]

Theyre activists. Thats all liberal arts colleges produce.

[@calmorale7724]

Fraud

[@RafaelBernatto]

They are not people. They are characters! As a writer I can do whatever I want with them! That's the whole point!

[@WalkinginLA2023]

How can she work on the Flash? She doesn't have super-speed, how can she understand his struggles racing through life? And I don't think the woman who works on Power has too much experience as a street level drug dealer.

[@crookim]

This comment is not sensitive enough 😂

[@michaelwelch9123]

She didn't say Power, she said The Power. Way worse.

[@UsserError]

I self-identify as a Flash. I can sensitivity read for a nominal fee.

[@ryanpeck3377]

She once bought $10 worth of weed off the hippie in her college dorm. .... (probably once when drunk traded a line of blow for a blow job )

[@chazzitz-wh4ly]

I’m trans-Flash. Do i count? Why am I under represented?

[@zarekshadowmoor9263]

Sensitivity readers... The ULTIMATE grift.

[@CleverGirlAAH]

Yeah I want to know how much they make...

[@TimoRutanen]

I mean it's pretty great though. You get to invent a profession where you get to teach people about your opinions and get paid for doing it.

[@JB-ti7bl]

Nah, DEI is still the better grift. Sensitivity readers are limited in scope. DEI deps are everywhere; reparations by the back door.

[@zxyatiywariii8]

Definitely a grift. Especially since anyone can "identify" as anything. Dylan Mulvaney could be hired by a male writer to check for misogynistic tropes, even though Dylan is a misogynistic trope personified.

[@chazzitz-wh4ly]

Anything stemming from the diversity agenda is a grift.

[@filmtorres]

So a 'sensitivity reader' makes sure the writer makes the most banal and uninspired script as possible.

[@jc-meza]

A writers meeting and they all proceed to present themselves with "I'm a writer" ...as if they felt the need to repeat that lie untill it becomes truth.

[@marcogenovesi8570]

I'm a writer

[@spiff1]

They Goebbel themselves

[@joeymagz5332]

This is more fascinating to watch than most of what came out of Hollywood in the last year. Pull back the curtain!

[@LadyGamerLoon]

The thing that drives me nuts is the fact that these "writers" and the "instructor" are in their mid twenties!!! Of course they know s**t they haven't lived life nor travelled nor talked to people that have different experiences

[@3-2bravo49]

Eh, I don't know about all of that. It depends on the person I guess. I had already been to war and back by their age. Been around the world quite a bit to places that aren't made for western tourists. Shows you what the rest of the world is like and how good we all have it here in the west. These people drive me nuts lol.

[@LadyGamerLoon]

@@3-2bravo49 Yeah, it depends on the person; me too in my 20s I was more travelled and cultured compared to my peers (ergo I loved surrounding myself with older people), but these people, in general speech of course, are kids who just got out of college and haven't left the country, or the life experience wold be translated in their writing or the questions they would ask..

[@grege1298]

"Like, like, and like, um like, like, then like, like, like, like, like, like, like." Holy shit, and she's a writer? How many times can one person say the word like?

[@peterbondmusic]

"This isn't writing advice -- this is a struggle session" bingo.

[@jdraven0890]

"like...like like. Like like...like like.."

[@mindartis4081]

“You know” “you know”…

[@teabaganyone7830]

um um um ah um ah um

[@kevinmccabe7263]

Alan nailed it, this is just a validation session for five nobodies

[@EmotionallyExhausted]

Can we superchat Ryan Kinel to write a script and submit it to them for a sensitivity reading? THAT zoom call would be the most entertaining thing to come out of Hollywood in a decade.

[@ShakaCthulu]

My god, that would be up there with the GypsyCrusader Joker zoom calls, lol.

[@marcogenovesi8570]

they would need counseling after reading that. This is people that would not survive a CoD lobby

[@aurorauplinks]

... does someone pay you for your ideas? Because someone should be doing that lol. I will... superchat that to him if you guys do too lol

[@The7thCynic]

This just really needs to be called out for what it is: Racism. This concept where you need to see color in order to know what generic stereotypical experience you need to insert. And then of course, hire someone of said color to approve that stereotype - even if they're a different nationality.

[@sdc9593]

If this is the way things are getting done today I don't expect to see anything good from Hollywood writers ever again.

[@JohnnyScribe]

If someone’s income requires them to find a problem, they will find a problem

[@david_walker_esq]

Isn't writing one's "lived experience" just an autobiography?

[@TimoRutanen]

Not necessarily. Lived experience gives you ideas you might not otherwise have even dreamed of. You meet real people who act like cartoons. You witness events you'd swear were in an article written by the Onion. Experience just gives you a larger pool to draw from.

[@david_walker_esq]

But, if it's "lived experience" you've already experienced it in your lifetime, so it's not anything new. The new comes from creative writing and researching characters and stories.

[@resonantone3284]

Exposure of these frauds and grifters is the best way to combat them. Keep up the good work. This is art through the lens of a Stasi Political Officer.

[@PeterAckarey]

Each one of these kids ends every sentence like it's a question.

[@Nerdiness1985]

That's called upspeak, almost as irritating as constantly using the word ''like''.

[@veggsbacon1891]

​@Nerdiness1985 Oh, so that's what it's called. God, I hate that kind of talking. I just want to tear something off when some person talks like that constantly, just like those people at that meeting call.

[@claytonbouldin9381]

They use the word "like" more than Shaggy does on Scooby-Doo.

[@djblackprincecdn]

They are the Ferrari F1 pit wall

[@eric_linden]

Sensitivity Read? As a medical professional, I wish they would do a Medical Read; they get so much wrong in healthcare, and we all talk about it. Lots of us in healthcare would love to make big bucks doing medical reads for movies and TV.

[@fragwagon]

Well said! I think an important distinction should be made between genuine consultants in writing - as a part of research - and this very weak, thinly veiled struggle session of "sensitivity readers". It being turned into a cottage industry should signal to anyone what it's actual worth is. Another distinction seems to be that whereas a consultant is concerned with accuracy, a grifting Sensitivity Cop is concerned with apportioning guilt.

[@marcogenovesi8570]

I wouldn't mind that and an "engineering read" and a "fighting and gun read" too, it would improve quality a lot

[@aerialpunk]

Lol too true. My mathematician husband says this about math in TV too. And I used to be an archaeologist, and sometimes watching crime shows makes me laugh. The best one was an episode of Bones where the smarty pants super anthropologist said she knew the bones were old because they had ossified....like, ossification is the process of turning into bone, so the bones turned into bone and that made them old? It was awful lol

[@kirschakos]

I'm from Hungary and I write novels. If I would be graced to work on a movie and I would have to take such readings I would probably say no, thanks! xD Crazy that this is happening. Explains a lot what's going on lately but still... if professionals don't reject this the audience will. They already are and eventually the higher-ups will have to face it and do some cleaning in the house to get back to normal.

[@kaaredyrness2120]

How can she be a writer when she cant get more then four words out without vomiting a "like"

[@TimoRutanen]

I'd guess that's the difference between a writer and a talker.

[@veggsbacon1891]

"Like like like like like-" - Lousy sensitive american hacks That ain't as pleasant as the seagulls from Finding Nemo.

[@nagillim7915]

Her dialogue must be like Shakespeare...

[@shirleydanby4123]

Just the way they all speak and handle themselves, desperately searching for simple words.Folowed by how they struggle to express themselves tells me these are poor writers.

[@shteebo]

This is a seminar on egg shell walking. Hard truth, writers--a story that offends no one is boring as hell.

[@MrGadfly772]

This smacks of corporate lawyers making sure that nobody does anything that might get the company sued. They are obsessed with not offending anyone or do ANYTHING that might get negative publicity. They are death to free expression. Their type is known to anyone who has been to a workshop has been run by an administrator. Pretty soon people will be unable to talk as they'll be so afraid of offending someone. We're seeing the future, and it is silence.

[@daveeyes]

"The Sound of Silence".

[@sunnydaze2712]

You know guys I said the word, “like” a million times………..BACK IN HIGH SCHOOL.

[@TimoRutanen]

I played a character who says 'like' often. I have noticed it's quite sticky and easily spreads outside the game.

[@claytonbouldin9381]

Take a shot everytime they say like.

[@guyincognito82]

Just think how much better our movies would have been in the 70s 80s and 90s if we had only had sensitivity readings!

[@Alessandrosaiyan]

What Film Threat is uncovering is incredible, and frightening…

[@miguelpablo7278]

man this is like a paid commercial for people to not watch tv and listen to podcasts instead

[@ryanpeck3377]

And watch old movies From your collection (not the new “censored for a modern audience” streaming version)

[@marcogenovesi8570]

Do people need an encouragement to not watch bad and boring TV programming?

[@AdamtheGrey02]

It's OK. These little woke cultish writers will be unhireable once movie companies want to make money again.

[@mrcliff3709]

Don't worry I'm sure the Starbucks they worked at would hire them again

[@ez054098]

No wonder the Flash and other WB superhero shows were woke AF.

[@nicholasanderson7316]

Why is it every time a bunch of 20 somethings nowadays comes together it sounds as though we are listening to group therapy? I don’t understand this “trauma” that they all collectively share. I just foresee them having really difficult lives that go nowhere cause they’re too worried about everyone’s feelings all the time. This is self-censorship at its worst.

[@refuzed74]

Stock up on phyiscal media. Next they're going a "senitivity reading" on all movies on streaming services.

[@tinymetaltrees]

Stop watching other people pretend. Live your own life.

[@refuzed74]

@@tinymetaltrees Like watching KZbin channels?

[@sigmacademy]

They already did. First there were the disclaimers being put on "problematic movies", then there was a a push to actually CENSOR "problematic scenes", but people got wind of that effort early on and they couldn't do it so secretly anymore.

[@FranzSanchez-ky9up]

The pained smiles on the faces of the two "men".... They are Arthur Flecks waiting to happen.

[@Scribal_Chief]

These “men” couldn’t muster a nanometer of T do ANYTHING, bad (like Fleck) OR good.

[@52moviesayear]

This feels like a multi level marketing “intro” meet and greet.

[@guyvizard549]

The host of the call apologized twice before she ever even started introducing them. Jesus.

[@kingclover1395]

If the purpose of sensitivity reading is to get rid of stereotypes and tropes, they are doing a lousy job of it. Movie writing today is NOTHING BUT tropes and stereotypes and dogmatic cliches.

[@DaidriveCJ]

They've become the very they they've strived to get rid of! The road to hell is often paved with good intentions.

[@TromaDogg]

New drinking game...take a shot every time the woman in the top right says 'like'.

[@SC-mf1gc]

Most tropes and stereotyoes exist because they are accurate. So if you write a Black character and ask a Black person to proofread it, odds are every trope a d stereotype in it, will represent somebody he knows in real life.

[@AdamWeisshaupt]

They are doing everything wrong. If you want to ask a neutral unbiased person, you can never choose a person of that identity. That is similar to sports clubs where you get biased opinons of the fans of specific clubs all of the time, but not of neutral fans. And stereotypes are only negative if you hate the specific stereotypes. If there is a stereotype that black people like cycling, they only complain if they despise cycling, which is in itself insulting.

[@aerialpunk]

Yeah I wouldn't necessarily say they're all accurate, but they exist because they have enough truth to them that people recognize a pattern among the group.

[@MrSheymie]

Two guys smiling constantly to signal that in spite of being male they are not toxic.

[@lJ0blixen]

These are the type of people that helped trudo put tampax in men’s military washrooms🤣🤣🤣

[@dbsommers1]

I know. I know. A sensitivity reading is a way to ensure every piece of literature regurgitates the sensitivity reader's dogma. Because if it doesn't, it's insensitive.

[@thomaspayne7617]

I am embarrassed for these writers. Do they cry everyday? I bet they feel like microaggressions are real. Also stereotypes are accurate, see the great Dr Lee Jussims research on stereotype accuracy

[@sigmacademy]

You forgot cultural appropriation. When they are doing it, it's okay, but when someone else does it, it's wrong.

[@lunasong7512]

So Jess is one of the reasons The Flash took a backseat on his own show. I couldn’t make it through those last seasons. Character consistency was non-existent and everybody but The Flash was the hero… :(

[@majorfomo7895]

Sensitivity readings have been going on for a while now, at least in the literary world.

[@sakunaruful]

Agreed especially in writing circles.

[@harbl99]

"Can you make the lead character of this military covert operation thriller set in Afgh. into a black woman? It would make it easier for us to market the book." -- actual 'helpful suggestion' received by an author

[@fragwagon]

Big time.

[@sigmacademy]

@@harbl99 I doubt that suggestion was leveled at a white male writer. Would have been "problematic" if he wrote "live experiences" he never had, as if research isn't a thing (and has been for many years).

[@NeoWalpolean]

For several years. Which is why nearly all recent fiction just seems like variations on the same theme. Current literature is as rich as tofu.

[@hermitfrodo7730]

If these are the writers of our future, Korea and Japan will crush us.

[@eeddieedwards3890]

Godzilla Pus One

[@anom5389]

TGFJ - Thank God for Japan

[@zxyatiywariii8]

At this point, I'm rooting for Japan to out-write us. Japan has more immunity to the Woke Plague.

[@eeddieedwards3890]

@@zxyatiywariii8 Truth!

[@PTMcMullen]

I for one welcome our Toho overlords!

[@ghanjic]

The Asian lady at 27:00 saying ‘like’ about 46 times in a minute should discredit her as a writer and someone to seek for advice on writing

[@jagmo]

37:06 "This isn't writing advice, this is a struggle session..." Nailed it!

[@ryaneger2502]

These people are too young to be mentors much less accomplished writers sharing their opinions.

[@BobbyFett3994]

People who think and approach screenwriting like the five individuals in this group chat, are the reason why Hollywood will continue losing billions of dollars.

[@maxknuckles13]

I'm still baffled why Hollywood is crumbling.. I just have no idea why soo many ppl are turning their backs

[@markpekrul4393]

We're doomed.

[@Cognaxance]

They're trying to make art and writing formulaic. Identity politics takes precedence over the story, it's strongly encouraged(shamed into) having quotas and work in a narrow predetermined framework. Meaning no artistic freedom. Originality is sacrificed. Very little imagination. And must meet the guidelines and approval of self-appointment moral relativist or risk acknowledgment and being ignored.

[@MichaelFeyrerJr]

There is so much word salad thrown around by these individuals. It’s no wonder the scripts we are seeing being made have no real characters. They can’t escape their identity politics.

[@freebirdjackson5511]

How bland and uninspiring these young people are…just finished a Cormac McCarthy reading spree…couldn’t imagine they could handle real literature.

[@carolfrome7801]

I love Cormac McCarthy. Aside from beautiful writing, right down to the sentence, not a false note to be found anywhere.

[@timwhite5562]

I can't even listen to them for more than 45 seconds before I'm playing it at twice speed just to get through it.

[@FreeFree-ur4zq]

Billy Wilder or Jim Thompson wouldn't have made it through the door. These people are sickening 🤮

[@jamesburke4358]

The next Elmore Leonard would have had security after him.

[@FreeFree-ur4zq]

@@jamesburke4358 The next Tarantino will be chopped off at the balls. These people are sickening

[@fragwagon]

Flannery O'Connor would raise a mob.

[@Doxymeister]

I saw she was wearing an Oklahoma shirt, and thought, Okay maybe she just went to college at OSU or OU or something, most Oklahomans I know don't act like this. Then she apologized for saying "Ya'll" and "okie-dokie" and I thought, "Oh crap, this mind-worm cancer nonsense has worked it's way into even my state." *sigh*

[@NeverForget1776]

Colleges are rich cultures for rhe growth of mind viruses like wokeness. They ate to mind viruses what a dirty hospital is to actual physical viruses. Don't think less of tour staye just bc a College in the state has gone broke from going woke

[@dyenahh]

Very insensitive

[@sigmacademy]

You're missing the point of what she is doing. She's apologizing for being herself (and by extension, of being born). And these type of people are writing your modern entertainment. See NOW why current-day entertainment is the way it is?

[@Doxymeister]

@@dyenahh Who? Me or her? 😂

[@dyenahh]

@@Doxymeister Not you …she is being ‘insensitive' to fellow Okies who might be offended by the self mockery she uses to ingratiate herself with those zoomers. Down with sensitivity! Bring back common sense!

[@TheMattooine]

If this is the future it will continue to suck.

[@Cadmus9501]

Watching the Zoom call, the following word came to mind: pigeonholed You now have writers who limit other writers on what they can write about, to begin with no one is a subject matter expert on everything, much less when it comes to people. Now, it is the responsibility of each individual writer to perform research on the subject matter as best they can, this however is not accomplished by merely speaking to other writer's which in turn have limited knowledge on the subject, if you want to understand people that are different than you and live different lives, you are better off speaking and interacting in person with individuals or groups in the real world in order to gain a better perspective on how to write them.

[@sigmacademy]

The problem is they have limited themselves so much that they have nothing that they can fully explore out of fear of stepping on the wrong person's toes.

[@1Gr8Editrix]

They sound annoying. Imagine being stuck in a room with them.