I’ve never seen any of these films (my age and my unwillingness to be triggered has prevented me), but I really wish there were more movies that talked about diet culture and how it leads to EDs.

Right, Rey is like, so boring and not interesting to play as, whereas I have always found myself deeply passionate about, and highly invested in, small metal thimbles and top hats. I mean, have you heard about Thimble’s backstory???

Wait he hadn’t even acknowledged to himself that he was gay, but “she knew to be the case”? No she didn’t. She suspected he was as did every other cast member. In a moment of anger she threw her suspicion in his face. It was a shitty comment, but it wasn’t outing him on national television. She didn’t know if he was…

She outed him in front of what, a dozen people? The producers, including John Murray (a gay man) chose to broadcast that clip.

The genre was pretty new and the Internet was basically non-existent, so information wasn’t as easy to find as it is now. Remember how shocking the idea of manipulation on Survivor was, and that was years later. I don’t think original episodes of The Real World were as production-influenced either—I thought the…

In the context of the interview, we were speaking about the ways reality TV producers manufacture drama and pick and choose what to show in order to fit their preferred storyline.

People also kill themselves when someone is bullying them (by stealing their things and sending them nasty messages). I’m not defending what she did, I’m just saying she is no worse than he is. He did resort to violence, after all.

Considering he was also being homophobic on camera, he wasn’t just hurting Irene but the…

I don’t know. Maybe my perception of what it means to “out” somebody or to be “outed” is narrower than most people’s, but I tend to think of it as something that requires a more intimate knowledge than what I remember transpiring on the show. Basically, what I remember is that she voiced a knowing suspicion that…

Eh. Considering he was stealing her things, sending her nasty messages, and being homophobic all of the time, I consider it a wash.

They didn’t have to show either one. They didn’t. Will Bachelor in Paradise show the controversial sex situation that closed down production? Just because they have something in the can doesn’t mean they have to broadcast it. She read Stephen because he needed to be read. MTV is who outed him. Well, them and the fact…

Not sure what point you’re trying to make, but Persian is an actual ethnicity and not some west-friendly term for people born in Iran like you claim.

The story of Aladdin comes from 1001 Arabian nights. And that work is actually a collection of stories from throughout the middle east and India. The Aladdin story wasn’t even an original part of the 1001 Arabian nights. It was added by a French author in the 1800s. It’s no more authentically Arab than The Jungle…

“fluoridated for some reason”

NO NAME, YOU SAY!?

I assume Jake Gyllenhaal is busy?

Jewish and Muslim males are circumcised. Although there is a movement underway in Germany to stop circumcision for religious reasons. Circumcision isn’t illegal anywhere in Europe. It’s just not considered desirable.

Were he not in any pain, I might agree with you. His parents could take him and do what Jahi McMath’s family has been doing for years and keep him on privately-funded life support and turn him into some warmed over shrine of flesh for them to worship at indefinitely (Jahi McMath’s familywon’t accept the diagnosis of…

These parents are not dealing with reality here and idk what they hope to accomplish. Even the doctor who does the experimental treatment here in the U.S. says it only has a 10% chance of helping this child. And it will not reverse any damage already done. That’s the existence they want to condemn their child too —…

I’m guessing that if that adorable little foreign child was brown, they wouldn’t care quite as much.

Ouf, that picture, just heartbreaking.