So you just want to mask for all eternity?

Not sure what your point is because I’m absolutely assuming I’ll get Covid a third time at some point or another, very possibly later this year. Most of us will get Covid again and again, until it eventually turns into just another flu virus, like the descendant of the Spanish flu a century on, which is one of the…

All true except your last point about kids being better off. It appears that’s the case for girls but not boys, who appear to fare better when raised in a traditional two-parent home.

This might be hard to grasp for those who are more risk averse but we can’t live in pandemic mode forever, even if the pandemic isn’t over. With Spanish flu, everyone stopped being in pandemic mode in 1920, 2 years in, but people kept dying in high numbers for a good decade after that. It’s human nature, and for the…

I mean, I think they’re insufferable and an overrated, derivative mishmash of George Michael and Madonna but that’s still no excuse for the fatphobia, transphobia and moral panic.

I think it’s that but also historically virginity, and specifically female virginity, has been held up as some kind of prize for men. That and lack of experience are seen as basically the sexual equivalent of unwrapping a new toy. 

Just because someone had a violent, Satanic, stage persona did not make him a bad guy.

Agree. They’re just more passive aggressive about it. 

I’m sorry, how does she seem well adjusted? Don’t get me wrong, the conservatorship was bullshit and her dad abused his power but that doesn’t change the fact that this is not someone who’s well and both she and her defenders seems to be in denial about that.

I think you could also argue the Oscars should stop trying to be a mainstream blockbuster event competing for mainstream viewership and could be smaller and more niche and should focus on being an awards show that rewards movies based on how good they are, not how popular. You’ve got the MTV awards and the People’s…

I don’t think it was all bad or exploitative though. There was also just a lot less shame around nudity, and nudity wasn’t automatically sexualized the way it is in American society, but Anglo-Saxon society in general because I think Canada and the UK and Australia are pretty much the same, though maybe less…

Accessible doesn’t mean she was middle class and did her own groceries. She was “accessible” in that she had a warmth and a personality that most people of her social class didn’t/don’t. She hugged sick children hospital patients at a time when most royals doing charity barely showed up for a photo op and waved hello…

Thank you. That’s exactly how I felt reading this. You can’t be mad that she was sexualized and exploited as a teen and then also not respect the feelings and opinions she has now that she’s older and found her agency because she’s not saying what you wish she’d say. It’s fucking disrespectful. 

She wouldn’t have allowed it now. But she also doesn’t ever say that she regrets doing it. The fact is we live in different times, and I don’t think it makes a lot of sense to judge the 1970s through our 2023 lens and our 2023 cultural values. So much has changed in our attitudes. I don’t understand why people feel…

We don’t deserve a Putin supporting Assange apologist? 

Did you look at the book? This is not a book for 10-12 year-olds. It looks more like a book for a 4-5 year-old. I’m as pro choice as they come but I don’t see the point of teaching a 4-5 year-old about abortion. 

Hahahahaha sorry but this is amazing. I get a kick out of Dakota. And she doesn’t actually owe anyone an explanation, it’s bizarre to me that people think they’re entitled to know exactly where someone stands on any given issue just because they’re famous. 

Good.

Ultimately, I’m glad Hudgens got in her comment on the whole matter, and hopefully she continues to laugh so hard that she cries. That’s one of the healthiest ways to deal with an ex who’s moved on with a 21-year-old.

Of course people are free to draw their own red lines. I was taking issue more with the idea that people need someone else’s permission rather than deciding for themselves.