This show is explicitly about Sabrina rejecting the patriarchal system of hell. Are you saying patriarchy shouldn’t be depicted in the media?

I’m genuinely bothered by the fact that the Boomers got all their pop culture nostalgia in the form of new and compelling content like Quantum Leap, Forrest Gump, and the Wonder Years, whereas we’re forced to endure these hack remakes and reboots that pale in comparison to the originals.

I feel the same way when I talk about Alicia Silverstone’s performance, specifically. Everyone in Clueless is great but can you imagine Cher played by anyone else and having the movie work as it does?

When I tell people it’s one of my all time favorite movies I get looks of horror, but, as I said upthread, it is an amazingly well written movie and insanely smart and witty.

I appreciate Clueless more in my mid-30s than I did as a pre-teen, although I enjoyed it then. It’s far more clever than it seems on the surface and the performances are perfect. You can try to remake this in earnest and cast great actors but it wouldn’t matter. Clueless is Clueless. You can’t capture the original…

Can we admit that Paul Rudd has held up in a way that no other man his age has? 

You know, my mom divorced him bc he broke her nose and ribs. My grandmother (her mom) facilitated my kidnapping bc “she needs a dad.” She stopped speaking to my grandpa for a couple of years bc he helped my mom get said divorce and hide me from him once I got back from being abused physically, psychologically and…

I was a victim of childhood sexual abuse for many years. It took me twenty years to tell anyone. I worked with a great therapist, but still kept it to myself. About six years ago, the relative who did it was arrested for child porn. My mother asked me if he had ever “bothered” me. I was sick of lying so I told her the…

Huge kudos to this girl and her teacher - I know it’s the teacher’s job as a mandatory reporter, but its easy enough for adults to ignore such signs of abuse because it’s easier. I remember in high school (roughly 14 years old) I wrote a creative piece that depicted abuse, drug use, and rampant violence. I was dealing…

I can also understand why girls might not speak up if  it happened to them “years ago.” Our president and his wife have decreed that “hard evidence” has to be shown and that if it happened “years ago” that it’s too late  to do anything or to be believed. The shitty messages being sent these days are certainly heard…

Please let her know it’s not about not being prepared. It’s about someone committing a crime. If anything happens it’s not her fault for not being prepared, freezing, thinking the person was a friend, being drunk, leading them on and or not being proficient in weapons.  It’s always the fault of the perpetrator.

I’m thinking that’s going to be the major obstacle in the archery-as-self-defense strategy. I’m not likely to be carrying my bow and quiver when I’m on a date, standing in line at Wendy’s, dancing in a club, or at my office (all places where I’ve been groped/assaulted). 

“The Associated Press reports that the student was initially reluctant to come forward because the sexual abuse occurred years prior, but detectives found enough corroborated evidence after interviewing the three sisters to arrest Knight.”

Gee, I wonder why the girls thought that would be an issue. I am so over this…

I had a baby nephew kind of claw at my chest. Also had a kitten bite my nipple through my shirt once. Not sure if they were actually trying to feed off me though.

Sounds like smoking! I’m an avid non-smoker who spent a week in London with a friend who smoked and it was super eye-opening for me. Getting on a plane? Better find the smoking lounge right before boarding and pray the flight isn’t delayed. Get up in the morning, go outside and have a cigarette. Eat breakfast, have a…

Oh Fresh Babies. Anything can be a boob if you try hard enough, I guess. 

Toddlers are going to throw a tantrum about food no matter where it comes from.
And there’s really no such thing as handing a toddler a sandwich and getting some shit done. Parents, most often women, pretty much need to monitor small children during mealtimes all the time.
You definitely should’ve just avoided the ball…

My grandmother was 8 years old when she a refugee during WW2. She recalls living in a bombed out train station with about a dozen other people, all women and children, no adult men. Her mother was pregnant when they fled and gave birth in the station. Everyone was starving and my great-grandmother could not produce…

The idea of being “too much of a mom” is really interesting to me. I think it shows itself in so many ways, the judgment against extended breastfeeding, the judgment against homeschooling, the idea that being wrapped up in your child makes you some sort of weirdo. It’s the other end of the coin from the judgment…

My sister, who breastfed at least one of her kids to 18 months, said the nice thing about BFing toddlers is they come to you to nurse, no having to schlep to the baby.