Avoiding FanExpo Canada (Toronto) this year
First Alec Baldwin. Okay. Violent past, cut corners on his last film, resulting in the death of crew, but cleared of criminal charges. Fine.
Then Robert Davi? The guy who has to work for Ben Shapiro’s film company because he’s a Trump supporting christofascist? No thanks.
Now, they’ve doubled down on terrible, anti-nerd culture figures and added MEL GIBSON.
It reminds me of a time decades past, when I met these two high school kids (who were very “Beavis & Butthead” coded, but they were still sweet kids) who were going on about how much they loved Venom, and that he was way cooler than Spider-Man. I straight up asked them if they realized that Peter Parker was a big nerd who got picked on all the time, and that Venom was just like the jerk who stuffs them in their locker every day?
This is that. I’m not celebrating my culture next to people who are into this guest list. Get it together, Toronto.
Edited to include the link to the FanExpo feedback form, in case anyone thinks to expand their reach to the event organizers themselves. I’ll just leave it here.