It reminds me of Tig Notaro desperately trying to have her own biological baby because her mom passed away and the possibility that the child might look or act like her mom inspired Tig to try against the very huge odds. I’d never seriously considered having my own biological children until that link was made.

For real, I don't really know much about Kim beyond what's been on Jezebel but it is pretty obvious she really loves and misses her dad. If she wants to feel like her son has some connection to him then let her. 

I actually think he was a malignant narcissist, not a sociopath, since Bundy still very much cared about what people thought of him. But it doesn’t matter in relation to his actions, they were deplorable, and blaming others for one’s own shortcomings (such as raping and killing a multitude of young women and girls...)…

I can’t be mad at someone who loved her deceased parent so much and is clearly devastated that they will never meet their grandkids who looks for a connection between him and her kids. She’s the only link between her dad and her kids, and I think it’s lovely that she has a vault of information stored away, that she…

The best book I ever read on Bundy was written by two journalists Bundy contacted after he was convicted in Florida. He wanted these guys to basically write his biography but right after meeting him they saw through the myth and that’s what they wrote about instead. The whole book is them deconstructing the myths…

I binged this on Sunday and enjoyed it. It destroyed a lot of the Ted Bundy myths about him being super intelligent or extra charming. His high school peers described him as creepy and he was simply able to take advantage of how women were (and still are) socialized to be nice.  It was good to see if from the women…

I’ve been told my whole life that this fucker was good looking and all the actors that played him were and yet all the recent pics of him have been fuggly. Couple this with the “new” coverage of the Manson Family and how stupid they were and I’m feeling like the media was equally to blame for perpetuating the myths of…

It just came out, so maybe that’s why you haven’t been bombarded about it.

I thought it was really well done.  It’s the first documentary I’ve seen that truly gives a voice to his victims, as well as the women who were instrumental in finally bringing him to justice.  

Saying he was “upset by women’s lib” is silly. Bundy was absolutely notorious for blaming other people and things for everything he did. He did it his entire life. Every interviewer he talked to got a different explanation. He even did an interview with James Dobson (the Focus on the Family guy) the day of his…

The joke’s on DOT - didn’t Grande have to give like 99% of the revenue from the song to the Rodgers & Hammerstein estate just to sample “My Favorite Things” without getting sued? 

It’s still attractive in theory because if you are crazy, you can be helpless and it’s okay. People have to pick you up and you are excused from regular life.

How can you leave out the seminal work of this Gen Xer’s teen years on this topic, the Drew Barrymore/Chris O’Donnell “cute boyfriend thinks he can cure his bipolar girlfriend with looooove” movie, Mad Love? I was only 16 when it came out and vividly remember thinking it was a fucked up movie and would be an entirely…

We’re a white family that had plenty of money (my parents acted like we didn’t) and this was a white community in a mostly white Midwestern state.

Not a good one.

NYMag/The Cut have published a few pretty white girls gone rogue stories in the last couple of years which were easily their most read stories. Elizabeth Holmes, Anna Delvey, Caroline Calloway are the manic pixie dream girls of the instagram/technology age.

As a Gen Xer from a super sexist household, these books appealed to me for all the wrong reasons. When my sister and I were “well-behaved” and did what our parents wanted, we didn’t really get any other attention. Our submissiveness was our value.

It the show lasts long enough when they get to the appropriate time period:

Racism tends to make things less fun and cheerful. 

This is going to make for a great episode in “The Crown”.