Diablo Cody Says F**k Off!

I knew it was bound to happen eventually. Academy Award winning screenwriter Diablo Cody finally cracked and posted a rant in response to all of the people who passionately despise her. Here are some highlights:

I may have won 19 awards that you don’t feel I earned, but it’s neither original nor relevant to slag on Juno. Really. And you’re not some bold, singular voice of dissent, You are exactly like everyone else in your zeitgeisty-demo-lifestyle pod. You are even like me. (I, too, loved Arrested Development! Aren’t we a pretty pair of cultural mavericks? Hey, let’s go bitch about how Black Kids are overrated!)

I’m sorry that while you were shooting your failed opus at Tisch, I was jamming toxic silicon toys up my ass for money. I get why you’re bitter. I took exactly one film class in college and– with the curious exception of the Douglas Sirk unit—it bored the shit out of me.

I’m sorry to all those violent, semi-literate fanboys who hate me for befriending their heroes. I can’t help it if your favorite writer, actor, director, or talk show host likes me. Maybe you would too, if we actually met.

I know my name is fake and that it annoys you. What, do you hate Queen Latifah and Rip Torn, too? Writers and entertainers have been using pseudonyms for years. Chances are, you’re spewing bile under an assumed screen name yourself. I’m sorry if you think I’m like some inked-up quasi-Suicide Girl derby cunt from 2002, but I like my fake name. It’s engraved on an Oscar. Yours isn’t.

You tell ‘em Diablo! You can read the whole hilarious angry popculture-infused rant on her official myspace blog.

  • Javier A
    word to ya mother
  • Sputnik
    I'm completely on her side here, but whoa, girl, you shouldn't rag on Tisch. We're not ALL assholes here.
  • Am I supposed to be jealous of her having an Oscar or something?
  • Chuckles
    i am in love...
  • Jojo
    Okay I officially will watch every movie she is involved with in theatres.
  • Joseph Fritzl
    YOU TELL EM DIABLOW

    lol, peter.
  • caleb
    so is this aimed at the people who just didn't like her movie? i'm confused. did something happen? how can you not be pleased with 93% on rotten tomatoes for your debut film? i didn't like juno. calling me out on your myspace isn't going to make me like it, and i don't think it's going to make anyone else think less of me. this is just so bizarre.
  • spikeshinizle
    On the one hand, I think it's good she said all this stuff, she's worked hard to get where she is...on the other hand, I'm not a fan of her work and I don't like the way she writes at all. I find it extremely pretentious. Does that make me one of the people she's talking about?
  • She was listening to the Jonas brothers when she wrote that? I had some respect before I saw that minor bit of a subculture I despise. This coming from the person who didn't mind the witty dialog of Juno.
  • aj
    Hmmm...I actually admire a person who only took one film-class and busted into the business and winning an Oscar, how can you not admit that she's talented?
  • dvq
    did she wrote the lyrics for the end of 8 mile? so... talking shit about yourself before people actually talk about you its cool now? hey, dont trash me, i just found out about this woman which apparently cant get over herself. Too bad she needs to talk like a movie script to make a point.
  • larry
    i instantly loled @ the black kids reference. so true.
  • aj
    Just realized the last post of mine barley made any sense. Oh well I wasn't trying to be particularly profound, I'll let it slide.
  • JP Dyno
    good on her.
    Im sick of hearing people bitch about her to.
    Im all for opinions... but i cant stand how sometimes it becomes the 'in' thing to bitch about someone/something... then whenever that person/thing is mentioned someone always goes on a huge rant about how they suck and that anyone who likes them is an idiot.
  • Windmillninja
    It's the "in" thing to hate on Juno just as much as it's the "in" thing to love it.

    Fuck it. Movie sucked. Next.
  • japajoo
    I'm on her side but i still think Juno is overrated.
  • MrCavanagh
    What's a "zeitgeisty-demo-lifestyle pod"?
  • Chase
    I have one thing to say ...


    HONEST TO BLOG?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?
  • Delta Assault
    Wait... that's actually a fake name? Damn, and here I just thought she'd been named by Sarah Palin or something.
  • Oi Vey
    Y I'll say this - there's a part of me who thinks that she deserve some of the hate and there's another side of me who thinks that fanboydom is fucking insane. And if you go to 'imdb.com', 'youtube.com', or whatever, you'll see what I mean on how low people can go.
  • Black Kids are the best ever. Don't hate!

    And I think she was joshing about Black Kids, because people think she's overrated.
  • Oi Vey
    black kids are good in a poppy kind of way.
  • Arch Stanton
    I had no opinion on her until now.

    What a bitch.
  • Zach
    fuck yeah
  • Chris
    Ha!
  • If you don't what the rant is about then you've never met a Juno hater. I'm not talking about someone who just didn't like the movie, there are countless people who hate on the movie and her in a smarmy spiteful, IMDB comment board kind of way and it's become a very childish trend. If you actually clicked on the link to her blog, you'd see that she was specifically referencing an article in Variety about that trend. It wasn't just a random you-didn't-like-my-movie-so-I-hate-you rant.

    A woman standing up for herself while people all over the Internet bash her just because they didn't like the movie she wrote is not a bitch.
  • StarBlazer101
    She wants me, she can't deny it ;)

    LMAO
  • pucky
    She's a fucking idiot for feeding these people EXACTLY what they want. They wanted a response, she gave it, they'll continue. Maybe she SHOULD have stayed in college.
  • pucky
    Hey Jessica, yes she is.
  • Ghost
    @ MrCavanagh

    Seriously WTF? Haha Zeitgeisty!
  • Vega Bro
    I may be one of those jealous, racist, semi-literate bandwagon hopper fanboys, but the mere act of writing that thing proves that she is no better. It proves nothing but her unprofessionalness, insecurity, and the same sneery, pretentious attitude she is "slaging" the very slagers for.

    At the same time she is bragging and flaunting her newfound elitism, she is reveling in the impropriety. Does she not see the great contradiction in that? She tries so hard to be herself, or at least the persona she has created for herself, that all the hyperbolous self-deprivation and idle pigeonholing has just come off as desperate and annoying (here it goes) as her stupidly verbose and painfully immature remake of The Titanic set in coming-of-age-ville.
  • Patrick O'Riley
    its like she's the new zach braff that it's hip to hate. i've met her and she is fantastic. oh, and @ that guy rom...

    yes.
  • Peter Chen
    Peter Chen thinks this rant proves Juno was trash.

    Peter Chen has spoken.
  • Hana
    So...people can vocally hate on her and they're just 'fanboys' but she vocally hates back on them and she's a 'bitch?' Hello, double standard.
  • Vega Bro
    see this is the kind of idiocy Juno draws like a magnet. So to address your stupidly blatant, inane and baseless feminist accusation: Those are her own words Hana, you moron!
  • sd
    Overrated.
  • Evan
    "Hana Says:

    September 17th, 2008 at 10:42 pm

    So…people can vocally hate on her and they’re just ‘fanboys’ but she vocally hates back on them and she’s a ‘bitch?’ Hello, double standard."

    No double standard here. They're both bitches, Hana.
  • gah
    What the hell is a Diablo Cody?
  • M&Co
    Given the massive critical and commercial success of Juno, this rant is both utterly hilarious and utterly pathetic.

    So...what if I do hate the Black Kids? What if I do love Arrested Development? What if I am working my ass off at film school? Does that somehow make me inferior to Cody because she has a platform to pigeonhole me? It's just so offensive that she believes anyone who dislikes her or her films is some cut-out personality, particularly when she's such a walking talking cliche herself.

    I do love the way that Cody has cultivated this persona of the "stripper that fell into Hollywood" though. I guess that's a more compelling way to market herself than with what she really is - a journalist with some 'life experience', and 'life experience' that she actively pursued at that.
  • joshmayhood
    She IS still some "inked up quasi-Suicide Girl derby cunt from 2002"...except she has an Oscar. Coincidentally, Oscars these days are about as valuable as an inked up quasi-Suicide Girl derby cunt from 2002. Ubiquitous.
  • joshmayhood
    Oh, and my name is Josh Mayhood. But i'm thinking of changing it to Farenheit Costly...or something stupid like that a la Diablo Cody.
  • Evan
    At least now 'Diablo' has that Oscar to stick in her ass.
  • Evan
    Is gold less toxic than silicone?
  • 790
    What a fucked up world.

    She won an Oscar damn the rules,,,, I say fuck you ,,,, weeeeeeeeeee
    Man are we adults here? Fuck is just a fucking word.

    Btw is she's the female Quentin Tarantino or what ?????
  • Jack M.
    I don't hate Diablo Cody because I don't know her, but I hate Juno with a passion, i hated everything that revolved around that film, I hated the way it was shoved down my throat, bout time I actually got around to watching the movie the hatred was there already.
  • does it matter
    I love how everyone bashes her, yet they don't have shit to back it up with except some pre-pube diss.

    Pathetic. And Juno was mediocre if anything, not oscar worthy.
  • digitalet
    So apparently you can't not like a movie unless you have an oscar for screen writing to back it up?

    I say Uwe Boll and her team up for the next big thing. Perhaps a modern take on Pong.
  • lukas2k
    Flavor of the month... move along.
  • TheDaftPunk
    So if my name isn't engraved on an oscar, I'm less of a person because of it?

    I wouldn't go throwing that around, a lot of people don't have oscars, "Diablo".
  • Jack Donaghy
    Apparently girls can be douche bags too.
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