Especially now that there are apps for anxiety management.

See also: pissed off boys grousing that their childhoods were being ruined by female Ghostbusters and wondering what Dan Aykroyd would say about it...only to turn on Aykroyd as a shill when he endorsed the film.

Hi, lifelong scapegoat here. And I have little sympathy for Swift’s position. This is not scapegoating. Actual scapegoating involves family patterns of blaming and shaming; more specifically, it is the practice of singling out any party for unmerited negative treatment. T-Swift gives as good as she gets.

Right. And let’s not forget how Taylor herself has cynically capitalized on Feminism as a way to forge best friendships. Her fans looooooooove to forget just how anti-Feminist her music actually is. Like the song where she describes a woman’s best work as having been on her mattress.

Agreed. if he paid for her ticket, maybe I could see him being annoyed she’s engrossed in her cellphone versus the concert. Even then, that’s a pretty big stretch to justify recording her—which would indicate he doesn’t even know her, let alone have any part in her being present at the concert, so he’s the dick here.

Lacey Chabert, though?

I feel like I remember the hot sheets running a piece by him where he implies Lohan tried to sexually assault him in a hotel room, but made sure to be super descriptive about her drugged out state and washed up former star status. Is that what you’re referring to?

I think a lot of people tend to devalue how fucked up you can be in the search for love, especially if your attachment to your parents is absent. Attachment issues are sort of the new big frontier in psychology because we are finally getting the picture of how important it is for our senses of self to have those…

Ugh, the truth in this. I did this once, about four years ago. I don’t regret that I did it—because it forced him to see that his actions were definitely leaning towards abusive, when previously he only had the echo chamber of his cadre of yes men to reassure him that his behaviors were totally fine—but it isn’t…

It’s incredibly difficult for us to say for certain what we would do in any situation.

It absolutely is bad for society. I’m close friends with someone who murdered her mother as a teenager. The case achieved semi-famous status, and I remember a lot of the media coverage seemed to hype the idea that she was beyond saving because she had committed this horrific act. And it was horrific, something that…

Yes, and people get pissed at “stereotypical” feminists because they don’t like being reminded of how they are actively participating in oppression. Which you did, kiddo. Trivializing mental illness is not hyperbole; hyperbole would be asking if I had ever seen a movie. That you meant it to be funny doesn’t change the…

I’m cool with not seeming delightful to someone that thought it was cool to use a slur over something as meaningless as respective film tastes. Also, responding in all caps—you sound like a super mature person. It’s 9:31 p.m. here. When is your bedtime, champ?

Not always, especially in the US. And even if that were not actually the case, how does something being optional negate being something to respect?

So disliking a certain director’s style means I have a mental illness or am otherwise non-neurotypical. . Nice ableist slur.

Why, exactly, shouldn’t the act of giving birth be respected? Side stepping anti-choice bullshit and platitudes, birth is incredibly hard. It’s painful, it’s exhausting, and you run the risk of dying, just to bring a being into existence, a being that will likely never be any real return on the investment you made…

And so much of it is that men are given credit just for showing up. I read an article by Jessica Valenti where she lamented about her husband being called a “good dad” because he changed a single diaper. My husband and I talked about it and he disagreed that was the case—until he took our daughter to the movies a…

I am so going to recite this the next time my husband complains about me “nagging.”

One of the biggest problems I have with Taylor Swift is purely petty. She not only looks like my former roommate, but said former roommate was obsessed with her (probably because they looked alike) so I am incapable of being a rational enough adult to ever do anything more than dislike her because fuck my ex-roommate.

Ehhhh. I can’t stand Coppola’s films. I tried SO HARD to like “The Virgin Suicides” and “Lost in Translation,” but I walked away from both, trying to understand what the big damn deal actually was.