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…

Even the Wright brothers would have not made it without Kate, their sister, minder, social rep and head of the household.

Nailed it

Meanwhile the guy version of this is “wife/girlfriend was killed”

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!

The Accused was also 28 years ago, and she was 26 years old at the time. Maybe it was empowering for women to see sexual abuse depicted openly in the ‘80s (I was a toddler, so I wouldn’t know) or maybe she was too young to realize how un-nuanced it was. Either way, she’s had a very long time to re-evaulate, and that’s…

Dirty Dancing has a progressive abortion subplot.

one of the many reasons why Game of Thrones is a steaming pile of garbage.

It’s always interesting when people say stuff like “well this is the real world / rape is a part of real life and you need to be less offended by that” when they’ve never experienced any kind of sexual assault themselves. It’s just so fucking arrogant. Because buddy, those survivors know more about the ‘real world’…

This is why I refuse to watch Game of Thrones.

TOTALLY. Meanwhile the guy version of this is “wife/girlfriend was killed” (or the variation “child was kidnapped”). Basically Hollywood defines women through sex and their ability to procreate and men through their ability to protect others.

In re-watching old favorite 80s movies, I have noticed how casually rape is used as a source of male character development as well. I do not understand how more people are not deeply disturbed that Marty McFly was going to “fake” sexually assault his mother so that his father could come in to save the day and win his…

see also: she had a miscarriage and was DESTROYED! DESTROYYYYEEED

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.

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.

I read an awesome discussion of treatment of rape scenes. In Outlander (sorry, I love it) there were two attempted rapes back to back (!) and one was directed by a man, one a woman. In the male directed scene, there’s all kinds of T&A, with improbable positioning to get the most out of the forced nudity. It’s also all…

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'

A (white) friend’s kid came out with the most wild curly hair. Regularly during the summer (when she’s out in the neighborhood with the kids all the time), people will approach her to ask about how she manages Marge’s hair, and every once in a while someone will assume Marge is mixed. When my friend is like, Nope,…

Funny how in the murder/suicide scenario, the suicide part seems to be the afterthought.