Exactly. OP and the other pious purity people are acting like Pussy Riot are a bunch of 'White Feminist' NYU undergrads who invited evil FEMEN to a Women's Center "Smash the Patriarchy" party or something.

Pretty much this. Also it's important to understand that Pussy Riot's message is already blurred somewhat because they are both feminist and opposition activists fighting against Putin's regime (one leads to the other, but folks are getting confused). Racism is not PR's fight, and unless respectable internet commenters…

Thing is, though, if you refuse to associate with racists in Russia and the FSU, you're not going to be able to work with very many people. Westerners should be careful about imposing untenable (however correct they may be) purity requirements on Russian opposition figures, not just because those figures will…

Yeah. The gulags are full of hipsters. Fucking poseurs.

My understanding is that because Pussy Riot is an anonymous collective, Tolokonnikova and Alekhina are no longer publicly associating as being part of Pussy Riot so as to protect the anonymity of the other members and thus when they are appearing in public on behalf of their prisoners' rights campaigns they are doing…

Wow, such a funny joke. Much inventive.

I agree. I think in terms of motive, the book is able to do a better job because time isn't so compressed. The mother starts of loving, then gradually grows colder and colder and more invested in wealth. In the book she also seems to realize the initial plan won't work, and starts going to secretary school to earn…

Yes, we absolutely fantasize about everything in the books we read. Serial killers. Alien murdering clowns. Evil dickhead teen kings beheading our fathers when we're children, and causing us to masquerade as boys. Being cancer-ridden and falling in love with the cute boy in our support group with the missing leg.…

I think in the beginning she genuinely believed that her father would come around and she'd be able to bring her children out of the attic. But as she became accustomed to wealth again and realized that her father would never accept her children, she chose the wealth over her children. That's when she decided to…

In the books, it's made clear that it in the Grandfather's will, if Corrine is ever found to have produced children (even with her second husband, Bart Winslow) she will be disinherited. So while she probably did think she'd be able to free the kids at some point at the start of the whole debacle, once her dad died…

Ah, ok. Spurned adulterous woman should be free to harass unconnected teenagers and octogenarians. That totally makes sense, thanks for clearing it up.

I never get why incest stories are so popular. It pretty much just creeps me out.

I tried to explain the plot of this movie to my husband. He was baffled and horrified, which in retrospect is a pretty reasonable reaction.

Oh, but also, WAY TO MAKE THE RAPE SCENE CONSENSUAL SEX, Lifetime! You had one job! One!

Yes. Yes he did. Why again did my teenaged daughter and wife need to see them?

Depression is not romantic either. It is horrific. Mine came on at 12 and I could not get a diagnosis until I was older because no body really thought about mental illness when I was a kid. My mom actually read about it when I was 16 and sent me to therapy. I have suffered with severe disabling depression since. I…

I understand where she's coming from, but there are ways to do that better than a mandatory one-child policy. South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan all got their birth rates way down (too low possibly) due to a combination of greater income, reducing infant mortality rates, and making a solid push for contraception and…

On the mental illness letter:

Saying that something bothers you does not negate the fact that other people have problems. No one is saying that skinny girls have it hard and fat girls have nothing to complain about. Because it is a topic that has been raised in this article, people are commenting on the fact that sometimes people talk about thin…