...but the truth about them is that many of them buy take out food and buy new clothes if they lose a button or rip a seam. Or pay someone to fix it.

Seth Rogen’s Pumbaa is aggressively fine. There is nothing overtly offensive about it, and he does amuse. But eliminating him from the story would have done little to affect my enjoyment of the film.

A Casey Affleck vanity project?  No thanks, I’ll pass.

The first time I’d ever heard of Ryan Adams he was doing covers of Taylor Swift songs. So obviously the world needs his genius. /s

Never listened to his music and certainly don’t intend to start now. 

Careful what you wish for....

Also is a pretty clear indicator that he shouldn’t become a doctor. 

At least they didn’t go all Lion King and try to make actual cat faces sing.  That is the extent of the positive feelings I have about this.

Agreed although I think the grandiosity lent itself well to the screen adaptation. And it was trying to convey the political and social landscape of a particular time period in Argentina. Because of that I can forgive the excess at least for the film version. For a stage show it’s overblown AF.

You picked the worst ones to start with. Original Phantom is still great theater and I personally loved Evita. I’m a musical theater nerd and I agree the rest of his work is overblown garbage.

Does the origin really matter if it’s current day usage is pejorative? Does that make it any less hurtful or misogynistic? Where is it in current day usage as a medical term (are doctor’s documenting clinical notes and using medical coding with this word)?  Language evolves and as do social mores. If I ask a man to…

THIS. I am all for reclaiming if it’s treated like other slurs and socially considered off-limits for men to use. I’ve encountered white dudes that thought using the word cunt made them cool and subversive. They wouldn’t dare use the N word to be edgy because that’s a bridge too far but misogyny was totally on the…

Might be the first Bond movie I’ll remotely give a shit about. I generally hate this franchise but I’m here for the sad little white boys that are gonna piss themselves over this.  

Agreed, and the second part digs into that more.

Hi. Here’s my limited experience from first-time buying a few years ago:

Same.  Even had a male teacher that would not so subtly hover near my desk and that of another female student that had developed early in a presumed effort to try to see down our shirts. This was in the fucking 5th grade. 

Thank you! This language has been used to excuse male creepiness towards teenage girls far too often. Underage is a child regardless of how “developed” a girl appears to be.  

Maybe I’m being simplistic but with organ donation the recipient typically needs a transplant to survive. No one needs a baby (sorry, not sorry). I’m all for letting women dictate their price when it comes to an necessary burden like childbearing. I get the concern around exploitation but this is already happening…

I get that but the woman’s time and level of risk merit a lot more dough in my opinion. Like I said, 45K is high end. Back when the recession was in full force I casually looked into this and 25K was the going rate. F-that.

I never wanted kids so the lengths that people will go to have a biological child is mind-boggling to me. My issue is primarily with the compensation side of surrogacy. Surrogates are putting their lives at risk carrying a child for someone else. A measly 45K (and that’s on the high end) doesn’t even begin to cover…