Dear Savage Nobody,

I’m not quite sure why LW#1 is so wigged out about her boyfriend’s internet habits. The women on Facebook could be the bf’s high school classmates who he’s curious about but doesn’t want to befriend. Maybe he likes looking up randos on Facebook and masturbating to some fantasy where he meets the ladies in question and…

Yeah, I read the title and said, wait, are the characters actual FBI agents who are operating way out of their jurisdiction, or do the suits at CBS assume that no one in their audience knows what INTERPOL is.

If any AWOLNATION song was going to be memeified, it really should be the gloriously ridiculous MF, shouldn’t it?

I’d say that at this point in time, the LW is definitely within his rights to ask to renegotiate the terms of the arrangement. But if his friends aren’t amenable to a change, then he has to decide if the sex he has with the wife is worth whatever discomfort he feels about serving as his friend’s masturbation material.…

Yes. Of course Rowling is being transphobic (and overly sensitive for viewing “TERF” as some out-of-bounds insult). Of course Rowling is wrong. And it’s true that she’s using the platform her fame has given her to spread vile ideas that make trans people less safe and that will almost certainly delay their access to…

I never could figure out why everyone was so down on Garth Brooks pretending to be a rock star. After all, Chris Gaines’ songs were competent, and consider the following:

If the LW refused to tell the husband about the sex afterward, it would not be a violation of consent. Consent is a process rather than a discrete event. Consent means that anyone is allowed to say no to something they’ve done before or something they previously promised to do. If the LW has sex with the wife, but…

The best part of friends coming out (as trans or whatever else) is how much happier they seem, both overall and in their own skin.

I’m really excited for the new Arab Strap album. I haven’t listened to the whole thing yet, but “The Turning of Our Bones” sounds great. It’s classically Aidan Moffat in its lyrics (with his post-Strap preoccupation with aging), and Malcolm Middleton’s sad-louche dance music sounds better than ever.

This movie is a really great family movie in the sense that it works on different levels for both children and adults. Kids will enjoy all the cool seals and the movie’s validation of “negative” emotions rather than simple happiness and heroics. Adults will appreciate the movie as a metaphor for how individuals cope…

“Joyless” is the perfect word for this movie. The first PotC was about good, old-fashioned swashbuckling, comedy, light romance, and stopping ridiculous baddies. The movie’s biggest selling point is how darn fun it is. Then, the sequel is all dour all the time. I can’t figure out why anyone thought that would be a…

Now I’m trying to figure out exactly what sort of gay man the state of Illinois thinks is so in the closet that he’s willing to marry a woman but will come out when prompted by a marriage certificate.

I like your littering analogy, but I’ll invoke an even more limited version of the categorical imperative here: you may be okay with having an affair behind your partner’s back, but does that mean that you’re okay with your partner having an affair behind yours?

True, though I don’t know that the first cousin marriages of educated people are any sort of great advertisement for the practice. For the rich (both in Europe and the U.S.), first cousin marriages were usually about keeping wealth and property in the family as opposed to love. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt’s first…

I mean, all the lies are definitely a problem, but the bigger problem is that no matter how careful you are, there is a good chance that the truth will out, especially if the affair lasts for years. Lying is bad, but doing something that has the potential to hurt someone you supposedly love, and doing it for years (as…

Yeah. I don’t get why Dan is going on about how a cousin is a safer choice of (sexting) affair partner than other women would be. Having an affair with a cousin is problematic for several non-incest related reasons:

Vis-a-vis underappreciated animated movies, I’ll put in a plug for Tomm Moore’s work. Wolfwalkers is getting a certain amount of press these days, but Moore’s older work (The Secret of Kells and Song of the Sea) is 100% worth watching, and is sophisticated enough to qualify as the best kind of “family entertainment”:…

This movie is a fun one. It’s nice to watch a children’s film that feels so unfamiliar, and I don’t mean unfamiliar merely in the sense of the cultural setting. While Kirikou and the Sorceress is about a hero, it doesn’t follow the regular beats of a Disney or Disney-style movie (e.g. inclusion of an obligatory cute…

In the U.S. versions that I have seen, nothing has been done to hide the nudity. The child characters are completely naked (male genitalia are stylized rectangles rather than realistic) and the adults are all topless. I can imagine a lot of parents refusing to let their children see the movie for that reason, but as…