I also thought of The Good Wife while reading this. I've only seen the first 2 seasons but Grace especially irritates me in the way she is written. It feels like the writers were trying to do something against the grain by making her rebel using religion instead of sex and drugs, but it just comes off as awkward and…

True. And I think it can possibly be harmful to kids who are still figuring out their own morality. There is this party line way of thinking in the liberal camp (of which I am firmly a part) where you are just not supposed to question certain things, ever. I've never been comfortable with just accepting moral rules…

It's awesome BECAUSE it's immoral!

It's especially so since the reaction of so many people, including powerful politicians and media personalities, has been to react with a new cultural conservative attitude, a reactionary anti-muslim attitude, and a circle the wagons-style nationalism. That kind of thing has to be fundamental to the attitudes of young…

Speaking as a Canadian/ American (dual citizen, lived in both) I would point out there are also LOADS of Americans who, when confronted with allegations of racism in the US, will fall all over themselves to point out that racism totally exists other places, too and that poor misjudged America gets WAY too much of the…

I don't know why but I have always had a weakness for manic pixie dream girl characters. No matter how cheesy. I'm going to armchair-psychoanalyse myself for a second and say it's because by bff in my early-mid teens was a MPDG. The MPDG fantasy of someone whimsical and dressed in homemade clothes flitting into your…

Man, I remember the most popular girl in my 7th grade class wore that stuff every day. I wasn't that cool, which means I actually look normal in most of my pics from that era.

I like to think I wouldn't tip in an awful situation like that too (I also don't think I've ever not tipped). But honestly, there were a couple times when I was younger and more insecure and showed up to a nice restaurant with equally young friends, only to be treated shittily because the servers thought we wouldn't…

Oh come on, guys, she's not that bad. Didn't Angelina Jolie go through a weird phase when she was Shai's age, too? Like I'm pretty sure she used to wear a vial of blood as an accessory and talk about her incestuous love for her brother. So by comparison Shai is actually pretty normal. And in 10 years she will probably…

She was also Clary Fray in that unfortunate adaptation of The Mortal Instruments.

That's kind of how I remember her being in Ever After, too.

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I don't think its about age, I think its about education/ awareness. Women of all ages say things along the lines of "I'm not a feminist because I don't hate men and I don't want men to be ruled by women". The way they might say it might vary a bit based on age and cultural context, but the sentiment is always the…

Yeah, that makes sense for sure. I'm not sure if any girls felt outright threatened by me but I do feel like there were guys who may have been attracted me but didn't want to admit it because of reputation, like you said. Looking back it seems a bit obvious, but at the time I was naive and thought "oh, he's just being…

This thing. Ack. So I don't want to be one of those "I'm-so-pretty-lookatme!" people but I feel like it's ok to talk about this experience now that I'm a decade removed from it: I was that girl. I was an outsider in high school, never got asked on a single date, to a party, whatever. I got to college and although I…

In answer to the first one: I also was cursed with tiny, not-quite-pimple-like bumps on my forehead for a while. No idea whether they were the same kind experienced by the above person, but when I tried cutting out foods with added sugar, they went away. I know this isn't a realistic option for everyone but as someone…

I REALLY want long, silken gloves to become a part of high fashion again.

Hanson! I loved Hanson so much. I think I was drawn to them because at my school it wasn't cool to like them (because they "looked like girls"- people at my school were assholes). Everyone loved BSB instead.

Re: tween girls, I have a true confession: As a wee tween girl I once trolled a Harry Potter board that I already frequented as a normal poster. (Obviously I used a different account.) I only did it a couple times and never posted anything terrible, basically I just made a few threads spamming the board with silly…

Oh god, same. Why does no one warn you about adult acne? I had the occasional breakout as a teenager but I hit 22 and suddenly it was full on acne. Thankfully I've found ways to take care of it but it sucks that I even need to- I'm 27! This should be done by now!