I had a similar experience. (I think my grandma might have watched some of the CBS soaps occasionally, but we never watched them together—I always watched game shows at her house.) I got into GH in the mid-'90s, when I was in middle school and on summer break. Under Wendy Riche's tenure, they were doing good story…

I just read that costs have gotten to be such an issue that most soaps can't afford to build unnecessary bedroom sets, so everybody has sex on the couch now.

Days of Our Lives, I think.

Passions hands-down takes the cake for nuttiest soap writing. I just checked their Wikipedia page to refresh my memory, and apparently they had a plot where some characters (including that creepy doll-child) went to Oz. Princess Diana (post-death) was depicted in one scene as a main character's "guardian angel." Hell,…

I mean, sure, but that's assuming that the student in question is at a point in their recovery where they're able to identify that they're suffering from PTSD, seek out proper care, feel deserving of proper care, feel comfortable asking for individual accommodation (which is very rarely the case with anybody who…

I think it's fairly clear that she's willing to believe that—she's verbally grappling with the tension of, "Well, he seems like a likable person" versus "Well, if he was a psychopath, he would seem like a likable person" every time she talks to him.

In a lot of cases, though, people aren't asking for trigger warnings so that they can avoid a text and its ideas entirely; they're asking for trigger warnings so they can engage with the text/its ideas in a responsible way that's less likely to trigger their PTSD—they don't want to be blindsided by the material, or…

Yeah, I mean, my argument is less "Titanic is a perfect movie and therefore any criticism of it is sexist" and more "Titanic is a well-constructed but flawed movie of which the criticisms often seem to devolve into sexism." There are definitely legitimate criticisms to be made, and the dialogue is at the top of the…

They are not everymen though, they are the type of walking clichés only found in particularly cheesy works of fiction.

The characters aren't cardboard caricatures, they are intentionally sketched as broadly as possible so that they can function as audience placeholders and allow the audience members to get more deeply into the era/the film itself. This is a pretty common technique in epics—it's not like the leads in Ben-Hur or…

Same deal with people complaining that Titanic won. I mean, is it the best movie of the year? I don't know, probably not. The story is pretty uncomplex. But it's a well-made, well-structured story with an epic feel, gorgeous sets, solid acting, and really interesting technical effects. When people complain about it,…

Or the all-time classic camp movie, The Parent Trap?

And also . . . a lot of problem lies not in that girls look at the girl in the video game and think, “Hey, I should look like that,” it's that when dudes are exposed to women who look like this over and over again, their tolerance for body shapes that fall outside this extremely narrow range tends to evaporate, and…

It probably won't do quite as well as The Fault in Our Stars. But it's only got a budget of $12m—they should easily be able to make that back by the end of this weekend. By tonight, even.

Yes, I have been a 14-year-old girl. And by the time I was a 14-year-old girl, I had already been the victim of a sexual assault. So yes—it sucks. I get it.

He was not accused of any specific act of molestation or assault. He was accused of being like the creepy dad at pool parties who wants to chat up all the high school girls—I don't see how that can be read as anything other than an insinuation that he wants to fuck high school girls.

I don't think anybody's saying that nobody should be allowed to say "John Green is creepy" if they think that's the case. What they're saying is that "ugh he acts like that pervy dad who's always trying to hit on teenagers at pool parties" is not a responsible or compelling way to do that. If you want to make that…

Yeah, there's zero evidence that he tried to get any of his author friends to pile on—some of them, like Maggie Stiefvater, went out of their way to point out that they're not even really friends with Green but thought the post was horrific enough to comment on anyway. And I think the implication that he did push them…

Yeah, it's been interesting to see the rise of this "John Green panders to teenage girls" narrative, because prior to The Fault in Our Stars, he was known as one of the few realistic YA fiction writers to draw a significant number of male readers. And then Tumblr got on his case for not pandering to female readers…

He's literally just a normal dude who writes decent books and put a lot of work into developing his online presence before that was a thing. From this he acquired a cadre of fans who think he can do no wrong, and by the time The Fault in Our Stars was released, there was an equally sizeable backlash. Because he has a…