Those of us who are old enough to remember seeing TV and film trailers for her work would certainly know, since the narrators always said her name. But it seems like she took a step back from her career in the 2000s, so I’m not surprised that people who can’t remember the 1990s don’t know the pronunciation, even if…

I’m not a prude, I have no problem with nudity or anything, but these just don’t look right- they’re aesthetically unpleasant.

I was alive and wearing bathing suits in the 80s, and while the sides of the bottoms of the suits were cut up high (“lengthens the legs” we were told), the rest of the bathing suit was a regular old bathing suit you could wear in front of your grandmother. The suits pictured above are porno suits. Wear them if you…

MTG: “Trust the science!!” (in scare quotes for some reason)

It’s what helped kill the original ERA. Opponents claimed (falsely) the ERA would force women to share public bathrooms with men, where they’d be raped and assaulted. Then I think it grew into an urban legend from there. I remember hearing variations of it as a kid. One from my own grandmother, who told my mom not to…

Looks like she included her air quotes:

Peak 2021: When people don’t understand the basic difference between sex and gender and just shout “trust the science” like a fucking moron.

What is it with these people and bathrooms? Are they not aware that there nothing stopping men from going into women’s bathrooms right now if they’re that determined that that's the best spot to assault people?

The comment about “Woody Allen the steamroller” (as opposed to the public image of Allen as a neurotic) reminds me of how Orson Welles absolutely pegged him for what he always was decades ago.

I have NEVER understood why he is lauded as some genius auteur. I, since I was a child found him repulsive and scary. I couldn’t understand why it was believable that beautiful, very young women would date him in his movies, and why anyone thought that was a story that made sense. In my opinion, the reason why several…

That’s how I feel. A coworker of mine got COVID over the holidays, after she went to a big Christmas gathering with her siblings and their kids. Well, the one daughter who flew in from New York, had it, and got most of the people there sick. A friend was relaying a similar story to me about her Aunt. Again, another…

Exactly. And it’s not so much that I want to chastise them as much as I am SHOCKED at what some people feel is acceptable. When those behavior have potentially deadly consequences, it’s also really difficult not to take it personally.

It’s like Trumpism, or Brexit. It’s utterly disillusioning to see people put to the test en masse.

It’s a simple feeling of unfairness, compounded by the feeling that others’ irresponsibility is lengthening the pandemic, and even a personal hurt if they’ve personally lost friends and family.

The “scolds” are suffering because irresponsible people are exacerbating the situation, which is leading to a longer epidemic and more deaths. This is literally life and death. It’s not scolding people for cutting the line, or talking in a movie theater. The risk/reward factor here does not compute. Someone’s “need”…

Especially because one of the reason I have to deny myself the pleasures that this person enjoyed is exactly because of behavior like hers. The more people blow off guidelines because they just haaaave to try the cute new restaurant with indoor dining, the more the rest of us don’t get to.

“You’re most likely mad at yourself for denying yourself the pleasures that someone else enjoyed.”

You’re most likely mad at yourself for denying yourself the pleasures that someone else enjoyed.

Oh my god I am shaking my head on this one. I think David Hogg pretty much sums it up here:

I never felt any way about the word "female" until I was on another blog and a guy chimed in an said that, in his experience, most of the men he knew that used it did so as a sort of substitute for the word bitch. He used a few sentences to illustrate: