Oh for sure, she’s got charisma and energy in SPADES, like I’m so excited to see how she grows Chi Chi, but I also could see how she’d be much more comfortable doing repeated, choreographed stage performance, vs. creating original content in the pressure cooker that is The Race. She might also be a contender for a…

I have so many thoughts! In no order whatsoever:

That’s a really lovely thing to say. I’m trying. Knowledge of what actually happened helps, as does valuing how I’ve responded. Thank you for that phrase, I’m trying to let them be just that: ghosts.

So, this is not the right place to discuss this, but whatever, it’s a Wednesday and I feel like wading in to something definitely over my head.

So, I’m with logic and science, and the fact that revelatory psychic claims aren’t based on either. I don’t think this psychic knew about Bowie’s future, save the generically…

I am so unbelievably excited and relieved to see All Stars 3. There is quite literally something about its’ actually physically bright color palette that makes me feel emotionally brighter. A celebration of excess in almost every aesthetic way. Yes. Need. Gimme.

I’m a former midwestern girl with crazy anxiety and…

My parents were hard to figure out. At first, it was a pretty flat ban: until I was 8 or 9, I was only allowed to watch Doug. Only acceptable television show. After that, it was more specific objections: 1) Ren & Stimpy (which, on review, is pretty fair. I was born in the late 80's, my sister the early 90's, it was…

One commenter above (or maybe below, I have no idea how this platform organizes comments) mentioned that Rebecca’s IQ seems to have dropped drastically from the earlier seasons: from ingenious and cunning to “spaz”.

I think that’s kind of the point? I don’t have the impulsive features of BPD, but I do have Complex…

I also know this struggle. I’m barely treading water as I try to get over what damage my narcissistic father and emotionally absent mother (not to mention, a more conventionally wanted sibling) put in me, before I can actually understand and BE myself. It’s not an easy journey. I’m often blind to the energy drain of…

I literally have no cares in the world as regards “when can we talk about Drag Race lovingly and critically? Was that comment too long ago?” because for me the answer is “ALL THE TIME. ANYONE. EVERYONE. LET’S DO IT RIGHT NOW.”

I do not follow any Drag Race discussion anywhere, save just a scan through the write-up on…

This YouTube clip is the performance from the article. Not sure if you’ve seen the season, but I think the story of the performers and the context of the night is relevant to how enjoyable it is. I like talking about it, so feel free to ignore the rest of the comment, but if you want the scene set:

Sasha has been an important winner to me. I care very much for Drag Race; it lifts me sometimes when very little else will.

The show has never much cared for academic dissection of drag. It’s relevant, but it doesn’t tend to reward queens who have high probabilities of “getting in their head.” It has certainly had…

If you’re starting in Drag Race; season 4 is definitely where it’s at for an entry point. I think the show has a few different casts to its winners; all of them are legit, in their ways, but sometimes you get a very FASHION!Queen who wins and sometimes a very COMEDY!Queen who wins. The best, I think, is when it’s a…

I’m definitely indebted to Rebecca Bunch and CXG in general. It came into my life after my father’s death and the end of my marriage, and a rock bottom of “holy fuck, I do fucked up shit for fucked up reasons, I really need to look at myself.” My over-identification with her is at least some because while I think the…

I see this as one of the central questions of the show, the Josh vs. Rebecca likability, and why what we accept and interpret for one is not the same as for the other.

Oh good. I was looking for more things to make numerical and chart so I can make my life simpler and be better at my womaning.

Dratch talks about this issue pretty early in "Girl Walks into a Bar." She doesn't seem to have any ill will about it. I used to feel really weirdly about her being recast (because I think she's great and believed Fey had enough clout to fix it if she had really wanted to) but Dratch's explanation of what happened…

My guy and I are mid-20s now, so he has often said that when he first found Lindsay Lohan attractive (circa Freaky Friday and Mean Girls) he was an appropriate age for that, and now he still thinks THAT era LiLo is hot, but feels weird about it. His taste is a combo of big-eyed, cherubic sweethearts (early LiLo, Katy…

I don't want to be flippant in my response to this, because employment discrimination based on any minority status is absolutely abhorrent, but that's the thing...there's data showing this in virtually every minority group. Female resumes responded to less frequently than male, "black" names responded to less…

I agree on principle, but add the caveat that we need to stop reinforcing both sides of the role, if we want any actual change. I feel like generally, when a gender norm is deemed unfair or undesirable, we push *women* to change whatever it is (instead of either reciprocally or singly pushing men, if it specifically…

I feel like there's such a delicate tightrope to walk here, and having a gifted child puts a lot of pressure on parents. I was/am (I never know how to talk about it...is it technically past tense? Whatever) gifted and it has done both wonderful and terrible things for my life, so I think whatever happens with your…