Everyone who has been born and is breathing lives in the real world. The troubles others face are often difficult to see from the outside. A little empathy goes a long way.

I hope she learned something from the experience. I think we were all so surprised because she was one of those actresses who played smart characters and thus people assumed she was brilliant herself. Like Natalie Portman. Except with NP the assumption was slightly more justified by her much-discussed Harvard degree.

Yea, they said this exact thing about Peter Pan and Rooney Mara’s casting as well.

I mean...at least this one is kind of original? Not something obvious and predictable like “All men have the fantasy of banging teenage girls”.....right?

Most major global religions have multiple different communities within them, including liberal communities that don’t take their book of faith literally at every word. I’m going to bring up Christianity, because that’s the one I have more personal experience with: there are schools of thought within Christianity that…

Aw man that sucks :( My issue is basically adult acne, which is aggravated mostly by diet and hormones (i.e. I can control it through diet to a certain degree, but no matter what it will still crop up around that time of the month). I’ve never dealt with eczema but who knows, a dietary change may help that as well!

Ms Bosworth’s diet may sound crazy to some but I actually eat a ‘diet’ (ugh, hate that word) pretty similar to that and it’s not THAT bad once you get used to it. I do it mainly to control my skin issues so I don’t have to be on antibiotics. Yeah I miss eating dessert at times but after a certain point of not eating…

Yea, that’s true that just reminding my mom she is awesome helps, I think. I try to do that pretty often. I’m honestly looking forward to being 30 at this point. It’s still a couple birthdays away...I plan to spend my 30s kicking ass at my career and life and doing nice things for my mom/ friends and not further…

That is so awful. You did not deserve that and they clearly have some serious issues to blame their own problems on you.

I’m glad you found the solution that works for you, even if it’s not ideal. I agree sometimes people just can’t change. I don’t know what will happen with my sister; my mother seems to be holding out hope that motherhood will change her now. I’m not so sure that’s possible. The one good thing I can say is that the…

I’m so sorry to hear that. Was it precipitated by a particular event? I think I am just sad for them and having trouble accepting that what I used to believe about our family (that we were strong and close and not like ‘other people’) just maybe isn’t going to hold true in the long term. I know it’s a cliche to have…

Life rant alert:

That’s great you could see that at such a young age. I remember in middle school knowing several girls who were ‘dating’ guys 5-6 years older and at the time it was treated as either a Big Important Secret or So Cool. I never thought of it in terms of the guys being creepy because I just didn’t have that maturity…

Exactly. Agh. Really, I am not the most familiar with Elba’s work but clearly he has a huge following and I think he’d probably be an ideal person to play a brand-new iconic character, or at the very least a character who hasn’t been on screen yet. So why not do that? Tom Hiddleston has already played an iconic…

This is my feeling too. My reaction to all the people campaigning for Idris Elba is pretty much: if you love him so much, WHY would you want him in Bond of all things? Why not campaign for him to have a brand new action franchise all his own? I don’t get it. I love Tom H but even he isn’t guaranteed to attract me to…

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I was in the teen section of a book store the other day and there was a shelf labeled “#bestofbae”. Even though I haven’t been one in 9 years I still cringed on behalf of every teen out there. Weird nonsensical slang is not cool when adults use it to market something to you, why do companies not realize this ??

Well, her character in the movie Domino was a supermodel for like 5 seconds of the movie before she became a bounty hunter, and that totally counts right ??

If you were 18 in 1996 that means you’re in your late 30s now. Really by the age that you are, you should have learned to have a bit more empathy. Not everyone is you and not everyone is in the headspace to think deeply about politics as a teenager. It’s great when they do—any many do. But that should be admired, not…

Don’t feel bad- I am a professional artist and I don’t get modern art.