I’m not going to ever argue that what he did was okay (and already explicitly stated that I wouldn’t). I can imagine the scenario where parents would press charges against the will of their offspring, I can imagine that it happens, but I need more data on how often and to whom before I start worrying about how we…

I agree, I need to know more data before I know how to feel about this. I have the anecdata - my best friend’s fiance has a sex conviction from a relationship that was consensual but illegal and more than 15 years in the past (I wanna say 16 vs. 22? But don’t hang any argument on that, I’m not certain of it). They’ve…

You’d think that, but the fact is that any country can be a source of, a passthrough of, or a destination of trafficked people, including children, and the world is waking up to that fact. Countries you wouldn’t necessarily think of in this context (Mexico and the Carribean Islands come to mind) already regularly…

It was disappointing, but I read it as the Wheeler’s marriage is now so unfulfilling for Karen that it’s affecting her ability to be present and engaged with anyone in her family, especially since definitely Mike and perhaps Nancy as well have been acting out and pulling away in the year since Season 1. Like, that…

It’s weird to me that Steve keeps the bat that was originally in the Byers house and is modified by Jonathan.

This is the only take I like as much as my own personal one, “Fuck love triangles, give me polyamory,” and has the added benefit of being actually possible on a show that stars as many children as this one.

Right? Fully two-thirds of their children disappear for days at a time within a year of another neighborhood kid going missing and being presumed dead, and it’s just - nothing? Don’t forget that while Nancy is off spending the night at an adult male stranger’s house with a teenage boy, Mike is also away watching his…

I kind of love it. Period pieces always have to make tradeoffs between “what people really looked like” and “what people now will be willing to accept as attractive.” For proof, note that Steve Harrington is just a slightly-amped version of Joe Keery’s day-to-day style - He’s a good-looking guy who we accept as a…

For a moment I got confused between Bryan Fuller and Bryan Singer and my heart fucking sank.

Absolutely. She’s extremely polished and fun in interviews, and I keep hoping against hope that that means she is having fun, but no child should be supporting her family - the income she’s getting is hers and should be saved for her to use in the future.

As the daughter of crazy people, I salute you, but I still say you’ve gotta start ordering your own meals on your own check and then pay for yourself. I can literally feel my blood pressure rising just thinking about this situation.

EXACTLY. I’m only excited that someone else is paying if I get to eat what I want in a sufficient quantity. If you want to order for me and leave me hungry at the end of the meal, you’d better be paying, this is clearly more for you than me.

Veronica Lake is one of my favorite old film stars. She was known as a truly awful person to work or put up with, but she’s just so damn lovely to watch onscreen.

Absolutely. It’s the only item on this list that I feel strongly enough that I would feel motivated to write in about it. Don’t do me any favors, just follow the fucking rules!

“Curvier” has always until recently just meant “big breasts,” and even those weren’t popular through the 20's. Hourglass figures, once those became fashionable, still required the tiny waists and flat tummies provided by shapewear or overall thinness. It becomes really obvious when you look at the pictures in…

Lol yeah, it’s gonna be real great when he hooks up with... Dustin?

90% of advice column asks fall into the “Do I really have to talk to my loved one about this?” camp or the “How do I talk to my loved one about this?” camp. The entire remaining 10% falls into the “You haven’t even tried talking about this yet, you’ve just been whining about it to everyone else to the point where…

I love all the characters (the under-20's especially), but I would gladly sign up for a full season of the Dustin & Lucas Show. Every single one of the kids is magic but those two are just the most fun to watch.

“Gay or 80's?” is the original flavor of which “Gay or European?” is the more-famous variation.

Mr. Wheeler is, I think, the only 100% unlikeable character on the show (at least this season - “Papa” also held that position last season). Everybody else who’s bad at least gets a funny line or a bit of backstory to make them fully human, so it’s funny that a guy who’s basically a guy we all know, truly the banalest…