I am super interested on what happens Saturday. Please check back in?

Things may have changed since I was working on an hourly basis, but I'm fairly certain that legally, you MUST have a lunch break if you're working an 8 hour shift. Not only is this new manager screwing your daughter over in terms of her breastfeeding, I believe they'd be breaking the law regardless.

My daughter works at Olive Garden as a hostess, they were really good to her throughout her pregnancy, shortening her shifts, giving her shifts where she rolls silverware instead of standing at the hostess desk. Before coming back, she discussed the fact that she was breastfeeding with the managers and would need to…

Eh. That’s kinda, really, only if you ignore everything from before the late 1800s and focus entirely on Western civilization.

I mean, it's sort of the defining feature of mammals...

It shouldn’t even be a fucking issue. Women have been breastfeeding babies for what... 2 million years? Longer? I don’t know how far back in human evolution breasts developed... but it’s not recent!

Agreed. I think she probably thinks she gets a pass for The Accused since it was based on a true story, though. Ugh, I used to love her but now she bums me out.

Ugh I forgot about the Mel Gibson BS. She’s also worked with Roman Polanski and Woody Allen so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Yikes... That’s one hell of a thing to say.

Foster’s not wrong here, but not only is this biting the hand that’s fed her (The Accused), which seems a little rude, also I just cannot with her anymore. She’s such an asshole.

But to do those things they would need more than 1 female character so I don’t see how that could possibly happen.

Or, for a real challenge, a relationship between a female lead character and male supporting character that has zero romantic component, but is still an actual relationship and not a vehicle for exposition or crappy subplot. Like Star Trek: Voyager, but consistently well written.

this tired literary and film device also reinforces simplistic thinking like this in “real life”. When involved in a lawsuit against an employer for sexually harassing me (amongst other types of harassment and discrimination), the defense was able to gain access to information that I had been sexually abused and…

Also, audiences can figure out when rape has taken place without graphic depictions. In the latest Mad Max it’s pretty obvious that there was non-consensual sex involved without having to see Immortan Joe’s (probably) freaky junk.

Right? This is the thing: I just don’t need to see it any more. It’s become a sort of bullshit shorthand for “serious” treatment of female characters. You want to show me what a great auteur you are? Show me the relationships between your (named female) characters. Show me a sisterhood, or a mother-daughter…

For godssake, this.

Dear Jodie Foster, when you want to talk please say more things like you said above and much, much less about how your deranged asshole buddy Mel Gibson is a swell guy.

I spoke about this to my friends last year. There are way too many of us out here who have been sexually assaulted. We don’t need to constantly see it in movies and shows. We get it. We fucking get it.

It’s an extremely tired trope. I’m also so sick of seeing it everywhere. Also included in tired female tropes ‘not being able to have babies'

Idon’t have a problem with her doing her job. What bugs me is that she straight-up gets the giggles while describing how she got the rapist off the hook. Also, she didn’t have to take the case, she did it as a favor for a pal.