As somebody who saw the movie, I would say that all the triggering would happen before the *spoiler*. Basically, the entire movie, up into that point, is about Charlize Theron suffering from depression while being completely gutted by motherhood. Even for me (a single male with no kids), it was excruciating.
Afterword
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well, she did have the GALL to perform a monologue about PERIODS (gross) and WOMEN AGING (disgusting) and WEDDINGS (that’s girl stuff!) while being a slightly overweight woman. how fucking dare she?
I’m with you. Damn near every Mother’s Day is like this. I keep hoping one of these years is going to be better.
It’s a lovely thought, having a day dedicated to mothers. But it only makes me feel guilty for not feeling how I should, I suppose, towards my mother. I see everyone getting their mom gifts and making sweet FB posts and I just... Can’t do that with the way things are right now. Not in good conscience. And unless a…
My dear friend’s husband was diagnosed with cancer less than 4 weeks ago and passed away in her arms last night. They have three young children. The email she wrote this morning to her friends and family about their love and life together was incredible. I don’t speak to my mom. I’m spending today in bed with my cat…
I have a difficult relationship with my mom for a variety of reasons. The past is the past and I’m basically over it, but what I struggle with now is that it just keeps going—people never stop guilt tripping me over why I’m not close with my mom (even strangers), the reminders of the family you’re “supposed” to have…
Fucking this. I’m having a different flavor of not-so-great Mother’s Day—the kind where you are a mother who feels unappreciated—and it feels like fucking Happy Mother’s Day is EVERYWHERE. Can’t imagine what it would feel like to be grieving the loss of a mother at this time. So—if you’re having a not-so-great…
That would require a very, very small modicum of effort. So, no.
I bet you make fun of people for being earnest because you’re rude.
Megan I’m sure your mom is a really awesome woman but she didn’t invent that quote.
Are all your best lines from 5 year old memes?
I think you’re reading a lot into a short stand up comedy set about marriage and tampons.
Just want to send some love to all the people who never had a mother figure, are missing someone, who’s mothers aren’t good to them or make the mother-child relationship difficult. In some ways I’m close to mine, and in others I continue to be hurt by her. Mother’s Day is a really shitty holiday for a lot of people,…
She hosted less than three years ago. And I have not seen any behavior to suggest the conclusions you have drawn.
A lot of great commenters left before that though. I think people just kind of move on. No particular reason, except maybe for the fact that there are a lot more dudes on here lately, and many of them are annoying.
Ah, please being a woman doesn’t mean I don’t know that women can be bigots with the best of them. Plenty of women who have always been and will always be women rape and sexually assault other women in jail, and that was going on long before transgender women were housed with cis women, so why aren’t these fine women…
The trouble is that in this debate (like so many we’re having in this country these days) there aren’t two equal sides, there’s the rational side and there’s the anti-progressive-social-compassion-science side. If you have no evidence to offer but some person’s vague discomfort to offer don’t expect anyone who isn’t…
You’re the one being intellectually dishonest. You’re picking and choosing what you want from that article instead of reading it all the way to the end.