I grew up with a girl who wasn’t allowed to watch Phantom because her parents though it was ‘garbage’, but she was allowed to watch Cats, and they took her to see it live. Cats?! Really?!

Nah, I was also obsessed with Phantom as a youth and I grew out of that one. Jesus Christ Superstar and Victor Victoria are good films (JCSS just doesn’t hold up quite as well), and growing up with them has definitely affected my tastes.

I assume the logic was, “Sure, he’s a bad singer. But also, he is ridiculously sexy, so...”

Guys and Dolls, though! And Victor Victoria! I definitely wouldn’t answer with Singin’ in the Rain or Grease, honestly.

Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone were very hot together in Crazy Stupid Love, so I can see why someone thought it was a good idea to cast them together again.

A Georgian! I thought Jo Beverley was the only person writing Georgian romances, honestly.

Kylie gets a pass for accurately recreating an already sexy outfit. My pet peeve is people doing sexy versions of not sexy things when there are a million already sexy things a person could dress as. Why be sexy Batman when you could just be Catwoman, who’s already sexy

I guess I’m just into playing things straight…

I had a very similar thing happen, but in the dude’s bed instead of mine. It was maybe the third time I’d spent the night at his place, and I was hit with some fierce food poisoning right after we finished the sex portion of the evening. Without warning I was violently ill all over the poor man’s bed.

Anyway, he was a…

I grew up in a neighborhood with a lot of First Nations people and Native was definitely the term I grew up using. I also worked at the Union of New Brunswick Indians back when Native was considered the appropriate word. When I’m typing comments it is very easy to use the more PC terminology, but in conversation I…

Oh, for sure. I have First Nations family members (by marriage) who refer to themselves as Indian, but I would still never use that term myself. Self-identification is often very different from what language is acceptable for an outsider.

Which is exactly why Marie Kondo would tell us to discard 2016 entirely!

10/10, would wear.

That is really surprising to me as a Canadian. I had no idea that American Indian was considered an acceptable term in the US.

In Canada ‘Indian’ is considered wildly inappropriate and ‘Native’ is only slightly better. Here, ‘Indigenous Peoples of Canada’ or just ‘Indigenous’ are acceptable as a catch all, but one should refer to the specific group (‘First Nations’, ‘Métis’, or ‘Inuit’) whenever possible.

In another situation that comment would probably be considered shade, but I don’t think that anything said at a roast could possibly be considered shade.

Likely a joke about how this dude thinks girls suck and having to bring his child to a park where he might have to speak to (ew) moms would be a real hardship for him.

My Gran’s house wasn’t child proofed (white carpets everywhere including the dining room, white furniture, expensive objets d’art on low shelving, nothing to stop us from jabbing a decorative letter opener into an electrical outlet or one of our cousins) and we were just expected from birth to not fuck it up. I think…

You’re right that it means something, it just doesn’t mean what you think it means. While confident larger women typically describe themselves as ‘curvy’, ‘curvy’ does not actually mean ‘overweight’. So yeah, women with prominent tits and asses (basically the standard ‘sexy’ body) are more confident than women who are…

Agreed. ‘Curvy’ is a very interesting descriptor, though. On OkCupid (and I am active on OkCupid) you see thin, Katy Perry-ish women with impressive boobs calling themselves ‘curvy’ and you also see heavier, Tess Holiday-ish women with impressive boobs calling themselves ‘curvy’. There’s no specific criteria for any…

You do realize that on okcupid ‘curvy’ is a different category from ‘average’, ‘a little extra’, ‘overweight’ and ‘full figured’, right? So in this regard, the body type category a person chooses is going to directly relate to how confident they are. ‘Skinny’ women are already showing that they aren’t confident by…