I hate this use too, people “female” is an adjective NOT a noun, but I think we’re losing the battle. I hear everyone using female (or WORSE “females”, kill me now) as a noun; young and old, black and white, even female political/government leaders. My dad loves torturing by using it this way too.
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There comes a time in every pop diva’s career when it’s clear that she’s surpassed that finite window of time when…
I gave birth last Saturday, when I was only 25 weeks along, because my high blood pressure turned into preeclampsia and then HELLP syndrome in a matter of days. Original plan was to keep me at the hospital for as many weeks as possible before delivery, but my labs turned bad and then worse and doctors think I would…
My burner name has been waiting for it’s day to shine!
Yeah, alright. But when are y’all gonna stop this infinite scrolling thing?
“Ask the Matriarchy” is a four-part advice series running on Thursdays.
15/10 would bang like a screen door in a hurricane.
EXCUSE YOU?
I don’t think Colin Firth has aged particularly well either
James Marsters (the actor who played Spike) recently talked about that scene with the A.V. Club:
I think that was treated with an unbelievable amount of nuance though. Like, they had had a sexual relationship, he took that to mean that her withdrawing consent was false (happens all the time), and then the look on his face when she forces him off of her and he realizes what he did was just very well-acted.
That “sucking the tears back and faking a smile to get on with life” scene? It was perfection.
I think that maybe I’m the only person with this interpretation, but here goes. I thought that with the cards he was explaining to her why he was always so weird and uncomfortable and even the stalky-video thing, because he realized that she had picked up on it and she thought that he hated her. And that he was saying…
Counterpoint: Lincoln was really good at capturing the frustration of unrequited love. I’m not defending the character’s actions, but as unrequited is the only love I’ve ever known, the scene where’s he’s just walking angrily to Aimee Mann makes me cry every time.
And he has a cute butt, all is forgiven!
In his defense, he was eighteen and Cindy Echard had just turned him down for prom.
Counterpoint: Icetown.