Yeah, I know…hence my first statement indicating what JKR has said that werewolves are a stand-in for in HP. (Lupin has AIDS!) Including=including in the spin-off, not in a general sense.

But lycanthropy means AIDS in the Harry Potter universe! Though that probably just means that JKR is even more likely to include it.

Hey, don't forget about her twin sister, Parvati. She was always wearing a gaudy butterfly hairclip so you'd know just how exotic she is.

Oh JKR…I love you, but I really don't want to see what your version of "indigenous magic" is going to look like.

Yeah, that's a shitty deal, especially since that's a really common body type that generally goes ignored by the fashion industry.

It's generally considered appropriate in polite society to cover certain parts of your body, a task that becomes infinitely more difficult when nobody makes clothing that fits your body type properly.

Women 5'7"-5'10": The world sees you as being at an ideal height. You have won.

I hate being tall. Clothing is not made for tall women—finding pants that fit my legs and dresses that don't functionally become shirts is nearly impossible, and I developed terrible posture early on from being a six foot eleven-year-old who was head and shoulders over everyone in my class. It also becomes very hard…

I hate high heels for so many reasons, but especially because I am nearly six feet tall without heels on, and I honestly don't have any desire to tower over people any more than I usually do.

Please don't tell me how to best respect rape victims. I am a rape victim myself. I'm not idealizing Sansa; regardless of whether or not Tyrion actually is complicit in the murders of her family, that is why she hates him. It strips complexity from her character to have her hate him for "ew gross" reasons rather than…

Don't forget—Loras is gay, and that gayness is also inherently hilarious.

I mean that the only reason to have Ramsay Snow NOT be such a notoriously horrible sadist is to make it easier to get Sansa into a situation where he can hurt her and the people who might have her back won't know. There's no reason to make his awfulness a secret awfulness except to make it easier for the writers to…

I'm not making an argument one way or another—that's just the reason that Sansa hates him in the books, for being a Lannister and because the Lannisters killed her family. I could have phrased it better, sorry.

I love how they had to warp Ramsay Snow's characterization so they could make it easier to set up Sansa getting raped. There is no other reason to make that change.

The part of this review that really articulates how I feel is the fact that the writers of this show just have no understanding of how rape impacts a person. I hate this development not because I inherently have a problem with rape being a part of narratives, but because these writers have proven again and again that…

Looking at the mustache was bad enough, but the fact that he decided to devote his story to it was just beyond the pale. There is no excuse. Facial hair culture needs to end.

Scott's mustache needs to be ripped off my television screen, and preferably his face, ASAP.

Can we talk about that voiceover clue? That acting was as fine as any I've ever seen on Jeopardy or elsewhere.

All things I know to be true but are unfortunately just really hard to grapple with. Cultural conditioning that you've been internalizing for years is the REAL bitch to try to get out of your head.

I was a very orderly kid and Curious George was very stressful for me. There is a time and place for your curiosity, George. Get your shit together and keep it under wraps from time to time. (And yeesh I did not know that about the original books—that's some straight up Babar shit).