I am making this comment in good faith so I hope that you will hear me out.

Ok, I know this isn’t the main point of your comment but can you please tell me who the YouTuber was? You have piqued my curiosity now...

Good point about the Amanita/ Nomi relationship.

Religion itself isn’t poison. It’s an integral part of the human psyche which is why even atheists become heavily emotionally invested in what are essentially modern updates on religious mythologies, like Star Wars and Harry Potter. This stuff is built into us. There’s a reason why all cultures have it, why it’s not…

I think some people will a closeness to this topic will definitely be disturbed watching this (I couldn’t even watch the whole trailer) but I don’t think that’s a reason not to tell such stories. To anyone who thinks telling these stories causes more eating disorders, I would counter that NOT telling them just feeds…

I grew up in a beachy and coastal place and kind of love being in the water, but one thing I do NOT enjoy are “beach days” - you know, when everyone packs some towels and some lunch and heads off in the car to the beach for an entire day. Not my scene. First of all, I sunburn easily and 6-8 hours in the sun is going…

This is how I feel. The show is a mix of good and bad (personally I think the large parts of the middle seasons were barely watchable) but the good episodes are REALLY good (remember ‘Panic in Central Park’? Or the episode where we met Jessa’s dad?) and even the just-okay episodes sometimes have moments of brilliance,…

I agree with everything you said. I did live in NYC for a bit and loved it. Now I live in Toronto which is the closest thing we Canadians have to NYC and it has all the things you mentioned and those are the reasons I pretty much never want to leave. The majority of my family have an attitude of “Why would you want to…

I grew up in a house and I don’t even know how you accumulate enough stuff for one. Also, I don’t WANT that amount of stuff. And not for some self-righteous reason either. I genuinely get anxiety at the idea of having to take care of and deal with all that stuff. I’ve moved around so much that I’ve learned to have…

I predicted the bullying thing but I also didn’t mind it, because it fit. I actually didn’t predict that Perry would be Jane’s rapist though. Although if I’d expected it to be any character we knew, it’d be him. I didn’t think we were going to find out who he was. I thought the point would be that Jane had to find a…

I wash my legs because I use a lot of public toilets and my legs (well, the backs of my thighs) are what sit on them.

Same. I get so tired of the hate directed at her an other women like her. Yes some of the criticism is legitimate and needs to be heard. That doesn’t change the fact that wealthy, successful women are criticized and hated on FAR more in progressive feminist circles than wealthy, successful men, for doing far less…

Pfft. Everyone knows they’re healthy because they smoke a healthy amount of cigarettes (1-2 packs/ day).

She’s a similar case to Kiera Knightley, who was playing a young bride in Love Actually 14 years ago but is still only 31 according to Wikipedia.

I think you’re right. I also think the time period has something to do with it. Many people are more sensitive now to issues like privilege, millennial narcissism and entitlement. (Personally I think the latter two are problematic as concepts, but that’s neither here nor there.) Rory’s character seems to push a lot…

I get a bit sad seeing the way she is hated on so much now. Yeah, I guess I can see where people are coming from, however I still have a soft spot for her after loving the show as a teen. She was the only teenage character I remember on television who didn’t seem impossibly more experienced than me at sex, partying,…

That was my first thought too. Well, my second thought. My first thought was “Oh great, another high fashion appropriation ‘scandal’ that really isn’t a scandal at all because what else do we expect from the high fashion world at this point?” I hope this story makes the rounds and she becomes much more popular as a…

A lot of people dislike her lately because she is playing an Asian woman in a film that will undoubtedly be as shitty as other whitewashed films. But hey, at least she got to be the lead in a big franchise. Take that, Marvel! /sarcasm

I don’t particularly view her as a role model either...

Oftentimes I’m personally confused or suspicious of people who claim someone is “owning their sexuality” or “taking control of their sexuality” by marketing it in a way that appeals to those in power (men). There is a reason why, say, queer female artists who don’t trade on their sexuality/ femininity to appeal to…