Given the revelations of the scandals of the Catholic church in the decades since Sinead O'Connor was eviscerated in the press and banned from SNL and booed onstage for DARING to simply tear up an image of the Pope, she should be applauded for being in the vanguard of criticism of that institution. If Cyrus weren't…

That baby will pop out all ripped and be like, "hella, look at these guns" and it will be a superior day for it

He's explicitly said that it's a good horror film, actually. He then went on to clarify, saying that this did not mean it was a good adaptation of his book or that he approved of it. This issue has come up a few times.

I remember discovering The Stand when I was like 12, and it blew my fucking mind. Up till then I'd been reading Nancy Drew and bland stuff like that, and discovering Stephen King, and that book, was amazing to me. I read it three times in a row, and then immediately devoured everything else he'd written up to that…

Not the first time King has raised the issue. In his Danse Macabre book he mentioned how sexist he thought Alien was for having Sigourney Weaver, who was on the verge of an escape at the end, turn right back around in order to save her cat. Nothing wrong with that, but he felt that it made her character look weak…

Man, Doug, it seemed like it KILLED you to write this. I'm going to go ahead and assume you really don't like King's work, but admired what he says here? Either way, this was the most begrudging admission of respect for something that seemed pretty obviously worthy of it that I've seen in a while.

Btw, to all the…

It should be noted that King has also said that The Shining is a "good" horror film, but a terrible adaptation of his novel. Because it basically loses all the things he mentioned, especially in the two main characters. Jack's descent into madness is not nearly as effective when you have Jack Nicholson, who looks AND…

Doug, look, I know that hating on you is pretty much done to death at this point and it's become a little trite, but seriously, this: "So, the hotel is, like, a metaphor or whatever," needs some work. I know that by using the vernacular "like" followed by the word "metaphor" followed by "whatever" is intentionally…

Back when I read The Shining (three months ago), I read an interview on The Guardian (or The Telegraph, I don't know) where he talked about how he was so far gone into his drug and alcohol abuse, that he wrote The Shining because he thought that if he wrote about bad things, he wouldn't do them to his children. That,…

Here's the thing about Stephen King—- he has always, always been a feminist. Seriously, it comes across in all of his books so clearly. So it's understandable that he's upset by the way that the female characters he's created have been portrayed in movies (and not just this one, there have been some other doozies).

Halfway through that labyrinth of an opening sentence, I knew it could only be Doug.

I completely disagree with King's reading of Duvall's acting, and I think her take on the character had a lot of depth, intelligence, and resilience to it. Actually, considering that Kubrick made The Shining into a pretty transparent study on domestic abuse and Shelly Duvall's Wendy ended up escaping, I can't help…

Because we all know, weak willed women who are abused by violent men have never existed. It must be a misogynist fantasy if one was put to film.

At least she won't have to worry about the silly things! Like fact checking!

Seriously, anyone who buys into the idea that sartorial standards somehow protect girls is still drinking the patriarchal Kool-Aid. Skip the sermon on clothing, and spend some time giving your daughter the third degree about the actual risk factors for sexual assault. "Some guy who is always weirdly nice to you will…

Ugh.

I like that when she stands in her jungle clothes, she's not coy. She's power standing! Maybe she and Sandra Bullock have been sharing tips. Damn, I really hope that's a new thing!

I used to find her horrifying but then I watched her documentary "Part of Me," and now I love her......anyone else?........Just me? Ok :)

I know they're not the same, and I attempted to avoid this discussion when I said "wealthy and upper-class" instead of just "wealthy"; even if they may not be treated like a Vanderbilt, they'll still have class privilege. And no, white privilege and thin privilege are not exactly the same. That doesn't mean that thin…

I alerted Jezebel to this article (emailed them a tip) in the hope that it might inspire a discussion about the pressures that young girls face in the world of social media and with early exposure to porn skewing their body image.