I read My Sister's Keeper as a teenager and I think that was a good time to read it, before I was old and cynical enough to roll my eyes at the needlessly inserted romance and cop-out ending.

People find a million reasons to complain about every YA heroine—she's too wimpy, she's a bitch, she's too selfish, she's a hypocrite, she's a Mary Sue...I've learned not to take them seriously. People's unmeetable standards are ridiculous.

She is. I'm happy for her that she is getting so much attention, she deserves it. Would not mind seeing her in some major lead film roles if that's what she wants.

If by "didn't hurt" you mean "had absolutely nothing to do with", then yes. He was completely uninvolved in her life at the time.

No, he didn't.

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I loved the first Dario. Why did they get rid of him?? (I've never read the books so maybe the first wasn't book-accurate or something, but man, he was purrrty.)

This is a really important point. There are lots of good roles for white women on television, even (and maybe especially?) middle aged white women, who are viewed more as television drama's target audience. It's the big screen that is a huge problem right now when it comes to female roles, especially in less 'serious'…

I don't know if this quite counts but a lot of people have argued that Katniss' casting in The Hunger Games was a case of whitewashing, considering Katniss in the book was darker skinned.

I don't think it had anything to do with race, since the controversy was over Kim and she is white. I think it's purely a reality television thing. Reality stars are still seen as people to be mocked, not venerated.

If your eyebrows are royal blue you don't even need to do anything else. You're already impossibly cool.

I don't know, I mean, I understand arguments like this and I am by no means a psychologist, but on the other hand, is teaching kids their own unique potential really a negative thing when you compare it to the alternative? I can't help thinking of times in not-so-distant history when everyone was basically taught to…

If they didn't before, attending parties like this will ensure they do. And that they all aspire to have their own reality shows.

Interesting, never knew that. I think if someone ever asked me those things during a job interview I would get up and walk out.

I think her judgment was poor but I also think whatever judgment a rape victim did or didn't exercise is kind of beside the point. I mean, it's not beside the point when we're trying to teach girls how to be safer but it's beside the point when it comes to criminal charges. The rapist is still guilty of a crime…

I intend to still be alive in 2092. Then I will have beat my great grandmother. And I will DEFS look back on this and laugh, from my apocalypse rubble heap.

It's funny, at the time I thought my Boomer parents never left me alone and were over-protective and ridiculous (well, they were compared to many of my friends') but they had nothing on parents these days, with their only-organic homemade baby food and calling kids' teachers to dispute grades and whatever else. I…

I thought that, too. He's hot by my god, he does not belong in a teen movie. I thought he looked awkward on screen, too, like he knew it.

Maze Runner was so terribly written I gave up after a few chapters. I wondered how it could have become so popular, and then I remembered that as an actual teenager I enjoyed things like the Gossip Girl books. So, that's how.

Also every guy in the movie looked the same. In the book they all have obvious differences in their appearance but the casting people seemed to be just like "Nuh, we'll just cast a few identical-looking white brunettes and call it a day."