"For more casual bystanders, though, there's a touch of the absurd to it. It already felt too soon when Tobey Macguire's Spider-Man movies — the last of which was only in 2007! — was rebooted in 2012 with a new story and a new actor (Andrew Garfield)."

Cathy Young is the real-life Rita Skeeter

Dear Gabe,

The map of 2004 was way better than the one in Gta V.

Bigger, sure. Better graphics and all that as well. Of course. It came out a decade later. Having said all that, I had more fun playing S.A. than I ever did on GTA V. They don't have the same sense of humor. You can't go around beating people with a double headed dildo, while wearing heart boxers and a cowboy hat in…

GTA: Taking tons of content and spreading it over a map so big the world feels empty and dull.

Sometimes I feel that people like this go into a place LOOKING to make a federal case out of some small slight. All that agita over a seating arrangement and on top of it they had a $50 Groupon. They weren't going to be good customers anyway. The repugnant and repeated use of "retarded" as an insult makes me think…

These people are dicks and even if they had gotten the seats they wanted I'm 1000% sure they would have found something else to complain about and not left a tip.

Don't underestimate that whole "your parents loooove you, more than anyone else ever could" idea. It's super pervasive, so much so that mothers who don't love their kids are still considered "strange," I guess.Or there is no such thing as parents who don't love you, right? Even more dangerous. Like, my mother used…

I think a lot of this is that people who are close with their family don't understand the concept of not being close with your family. My parents weren't abusive, and I don't actively dislike them or anything, but...I just don't want to be around them. Like, almost ever. I have one or two things in common with my…

Yup. I fought that battle with my now-fiance. He just didn't believe that I wasn't, at least, a contributing factor. He now knows better.

My first take was the is the most public passive aggressive neg that I have ever witnessed. Geeze lady, that is some dirty laundry you're waiving around. I wouldn't talk to you either.

This has been one of the most therapeutic pieces I have read in a long time. My sister and I are estranged from our mother and when people hear of this they usually paint us as spoiled children. "But that's your MOTHER!" they say. No matter that she was and is an abusive psycho who both my sister and I tried our…

Yes, yes, and yes. Cutting family members out of your life is not a decision one takes lightly. I didn't understand it before. Now I do. I will have only limited contact with my siblings. I will not be alone with them. That's just the way it is. Anyone who wants to put the blame on me for that will be shut down…

Vagnoni is 56, a few years older than I am (I'm at the boom's end.). When she writes about the ideas boomers have about how parents should be treated, I have to laugh. Boomers treated their parents like garbage. They had tons of advantages. The kind no group before or since had.

"They accuse me of being a terrible person, but won't elaborate about exactly what I've done. Well, sometimes they do, but it doesn't make sense, at least to me."

I think sometimes abusive parents have a tendency to believe the lies they've told themselves about how wonderful their children's childhoods were. Particularly if their children turned out to be decent adults.

You sound bitter so I'm guessing you just hate them for the price or because they partnered with apple. I have a few different pairs(some for sitting at work or home and others for jogging or the gym) and they are the best damn headphones I've ever had. Including Bose.

LOOK AT MY ASS! LOOK AT IT!

Do you even science bro? "Women have a primordial need..." you sound like Curt Schilling