I can understand your perspective and I have a few friends that had fertility issues. What angers me is the shame these women internalize when their bodies just don’t want to bear children. There is nothing wrong with them. I’d rather normalize infertility and have adoption be a smoother path than allowing (let’s face…

Thank you!   I don’t like/want kids in general so I get that I can look at this from a more detached perspective but for fucks sake.  Nobody absolutely must have their own little mini-me.

The few films of his I’ve seen didn’t appeal to me for the same reasons you mention.  Tarantino is overrated.

Thank you!  Great book.  I really wish this was being adapted instead.

...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.