I’m thrown by the sneering at people who don’t want to use hormonal birth control? I haven’t used it in years, not because I’m a sucker for “wellness” buzzwords but because it made a noticeable negative difference for me. I’m excited that we’re exploring alternatives because my (non-hormonal) IUD was really painful to…

For these reasons, I’ve always found the Conjuring movies kind of gross. The idea of depicting a pair of real-life callous grifters as unimpeachable moral heroes just seems dangerous in a completely avoidable way. Are there really that many morons out there going to these movies purely because of the “true story”…

Agree. We have two Dyson vacs - one cordless V8 Animal+ and a standard plug-in Ball - they’re both ridiculously good at their jobs on all fronts and worth the cost of admission.

I’ve talked about this a long time ago. There’s a field of psychology called “childhood emotional neglect.” It’s when a parent or caregiver fails to meet the emotional needs of a child. In some cases there are other signs of abuse or neglect. In others the child has all their material needs met but they are not given…

100% this.

Why does Ross, the largest friend, not simply eat the other five?

1) All were awful friends - that was the point in the beginning, that they were all codependent and incapable of maturing. That only works for a couple of seasons though, and they were all caricatures of their original characters. By the end, Monica’s “obsessiveness” was fanatical and Courtney Cox couldn’t deliver the…

I swear I’m a Sparkly Unicorn too!

I’m just glad that they’re called the “Arianators” and not the “Arianation.”

Can confirm as a person who has kids that until I did, I didn’t make that connection, either.  Having a biological child who I had the ability to shelter from everything that happened to me set off something in me that made me demand boundaries be respected SO FAST.  I was nearly 30 but it needed to happen.

I put the foot down in my late twenties, and it was because my dad was dying and his family were being insane.

You sound unhinged, posting effectively the same comment over and over again. Most of us don’t have the confident sense of self in our 20s to break away from a controlling and overbearing family, I would say even less so if we were known by literally everyone in the world for being a part of that family and nothing…

Don’t forget he’s not grateful enough and how dare he be unhappy, he’s a literal prince who lives in a castle.

I think it’s got to be a real mindfuck to be told that your only purpose is to support your older brother and be required to always walk two steps behind.

Ah, but he’s a prince and therefore doesn’t deserve our sympathy or benefit of the doubt. Clearly he’s only speaking out on these painful, personally lived issues to get money and attention, despite the fact he’s got both in spades (probably more than what he bargained for where the latter’s concerned).

Um, yeah, this. I’m not a famous Prince, but I get this through my own experiences. I distanced myself from my family and family stuff for years. Got back involved and tried for a decade. That pushed me to the edge. So now we’re back at the distance part and I’m much happier. So that on a huge famous family and being w…

It’s almost as if the $hit he’s gone through has caused him to be inconsistent and a little crazy. I’m not seeing anything sinister here, just a guy who’s tried to do what his family wanted and found he just couldn’t so when the chance came to run from it, he took it. We should all be so sane. No sarcasm.

The inheritance is because she took care of him with no ulterior motives other than to take care of him and everyone else around him was a vulture with the same ulterior motive. 

I have never met anyone who didn't like that movie. It was remarkable in the fact that people who generally like wildly different types of movies all liked it. So when I read that, I knew exactly who wrote this. The edgyedgelord hating everything that's popular thing is so over. 

Knives Out was badly written? You really want to criticize someone else's writing?

J.K. Rowling could be among the most popular, beloved people in the world if she could just avoid caring about (or telling everyone else how much she cares about) policing the particular set of genitalia millions of people currently have and/or were born with. What an odd, and cruel, hill to sacrifice so much of your…