This is such a great article. Thank you for writing it.

Isn’t their whole plan to make federal government totally non-functional so they can then go, “see, we always said big government was a bad idea”?

Haha yes. I’ve been watching this movie with my sisters since it came out and every year I find new ways that it is terrible. But I still love watching it. Pointing out its awfulness​has pretty much become a part of the ritual at this point.

I love this movie too (for reasons passing understanding), but it’s still true that’s there’s a million ways he could have got out of showing her that video. Besides that, it is still creepy as hell to go to your best mate’s wedding, as best man (!) and make what is essentially a wank bank video of his new wife, to…

She found out after he showed her that super creepy video he made of her wedding that was just close ups of her. Which he then justified by calling “self preservation”. Just, WTF, dude, dial it back.

I know nothing about Patti Lupone, but I just bought her autobiography on Kindle based purely on that ALW story.

It’s been taken down, but this guy reposted it for the masses.

I had to gently but very firmly explain to a male friend the other day that women exposing their breasts =/= men exposing their genitals. Everything women have or do does not require a male equivalent or an allowance for how men might want to react. Yeesh.

He’s ideal as head of a non-functional EPA, which I think is what they’re going for.

Haha running back to country music as a refuge from misogyny is the dumbest shit I ever heard.

I mean it’s great that she discovered she had a life-threatening, chronic illness and that helped her realise that other people deserve healthcare as well. Hopefully she (and her heartless asshole of a father) will also discover that she’s LGBT, in need of an abortion, an immigrant, a WoC, a Muslim, a refugee, etc...…

He’s not exactly spluttering. I feel like most of the people who are sympathetic to his side wouldn’t understand or care about what’s actually being said. All he needs to do is keep looking smug and they’ll assume he’s getting one over on her. And he does look smug as fuck the entire time.

First time I saw Now, Voyager was a few years after Titanic. I remember sitting on my couch when that scene happened and hearing myself mutter “yoouuu bastards”. Also Bette Davis is the goddamn queen.

I feel like this might have been inspired by one of the little girls trying to put on her mum’s clothes, which could be cute in a private family setting, but is a creepy thing to try and market directly. I can’t imagine why the Kardashians would be unable to see the difference between a spontaneous and a manufactured…

Did they eat Cheetos​ though? I lived in a relatively well off neighbourhood for a while, and I still get flashbacks to the mums giving their little kids babycinos and cold-pressed juices and seaweed crisps. They were only middle class though (read: rich, from where I’m standing).

It’s a bogan wardrobe staple.

I haven’t seen this show and I have no plans to, but I self-harmed pretty consistently from age 14 to age 19. Back then, anything, no matter how it was intended, could have set me off. Even now, after over a decade, triggers​ won’t actually drive me back to that behaviour, but you can bet they’ll fuck me up for a few…

Literally my first reaction as well.

And really, how hard is it to just not fucking say it? Just stop. And maybe have a little chat with yourself about WHY you want to say it so badly.

I read an interesting thing about the orchestra audition issue. I forget the specific orchestra, but when they introduced blind auditions, the success of female applicants rose as you said. They then installed carpet in the audition room, so that there was no way to tell if the applicant was wearing heels. Even more…