Yeah, I see this. I have seen popular kids who crashed and burned, nerds who grew up to still be nerds, nerds who grew up to be the kind of bro-y types who try way too hard because they still remember that they were once nerds, nerds who grew up to be normal, and popular kids who grew up to be normal. Then there are…

Thank you for this.

Ha. Me either...can't live with it, can't live without it. I suppose there are worse vices.

I don't hate her either (actually I like her music; as I don't know her personally all I have on her as an individual are the various contradictory tidbits spewed out by the media). But this article, and the comments below it, made me sad, both for her and for the state of humanity. (And now I'm the one being…

Sometimes we really are ready to pivot away from a statement, though. I think the expectation that we express everything in a super-duper self-assured manner is kind of like saying we should all think we know everything, or at least act like we do. Sometimes I have conversations with people about things I know almost…

This is true. I think she's basically been working nonstop since she was a teenager. Also, for whatever else has happened with her, she's never come off as unpleasant, personality-wise. I can't recall her ever publicly saying negative things toward any of her famous peers, which is quite a feat considering all the…

Oh my god I am glad I'm not the only one. That show was cute but in the end the only thing I really liked about it was the Sasha character. They should have given her her own show.

I thought wearing any kind of visibly labeled anything had been considered tacky for at least eight years now. A&F are just slow to let go of what made them successful with tweens I guess...

The stuff at Rugby Ralph Lauren was kinda like that...sadly it died :(

To me the uniform dark haircuts just look like they're meant to resemble Perry's own hair, like the dancers are meant to be larger-than-life caricatures of herself.

Sticking with the OC cast theme, I think she looks like Willa Holland

Well yeah, I get that in a realistic-drawn anime the rules are changed, to a degree. But in terms of anime in general, this article gives an explanation better than I ever could: http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010…

In my memory Serena was the most ridiculous character. All the others were fine, but she never seemed to want to fight or do anything unless someone else convinced her she could do it. And she was so insecure. Maybe the problem is I only ever got to watch random episodes as a kid (my parents were strict about tv so I…

I liked Sailor Moon but nothing will ever top the first Digimon series for me :P

Well, anime characters also often have natural pink hair and purple eyes. They're not so much 'white' as drawn in ways that don't fit with any real-life race. It's done to make the 'important' characters stand out (very minor characters and background 'extras' often have dark hair and less exaggerated features).

In middle school I knew a girl who believed in what she called the "four great beings," or something. They were elves, maybe vampires and a couple other ones I can't remember. And if she thought anyone was trying to say something against it, she would go very serious and say that was the same as questioning someone's…

Children's lives are in many (most) ways circumscribed by adults. In most cases this is for a good reason, i.e. they're not responsible enough to make all their own decisions yet. However to me, that makes it even more important that we allow them to make those decisions that won't deeply threaten their well being if…

You're absolutely right. I am currently going through a bit of an 80s/ early 90s sci fi phase and a lot of the books I've come across would definitely be marketed as YA were they published today. But back then they were just published as standard sci fi regardless of the protagonists being 17 years old.

Sorry to hear Panic sucked :( But I was expecting so by the summaries, honestly. I think Lauren Oliver is quite talented but she has a bit of a tendency to latch on to trends—it seemed like she wrote Before I Fall as a book surrogate for Mean Girls (there was even a line in it that was a line from Mean Girls with one…

Do you really want people who aren't 100% genuinely invested in those causes to be championing/ publicly endorsing them, though? I pay a lot of attention to anti-racist discussions and one thing that seems to come up a lot is how no one likes ignorant or half-informed people coming in and talking over everyone else.…