Basically, I think I’m just tired of online feminists under a certain age right now.

My problem with Beyonce and “feminism” is that a) like many celebrities, she only embraced the term when it became cool to do so, when she had denied being a feminist in the past, and b) again, like many celebrities, her brand of feminism isn’t so much about women supporting each other as it is about wanting everyone…

I think it’s more, how every normal person imagined being “rich” was before we all had easy access to what their houses actually looked like via reality TV.

Can I save this and use it in a hypothetical future novel? Wow.

I think the personal grievances with authority thing is probably true and a good point. He strikes me as the type who enjoys being the bad kid in class. He’ll basically do whatever he has to do to get a rise out of people. Someone above compared him to Lena Dunham. I think LD has gotten some unfair criticism, but one…

I mean, they were born into this world. They are natives. We are the outsiders who had to figure things out. This is all they’ve ever known.

She’s certainly a far better singer than I or most people could ever be, when it comes to raw voice talent, but I still think the vast majority of her music sounds like a bunch of ball bearings sliding around inside an arcade game machine from 1985.

That part of the post reminded me of a friend of mine who used to read into completely innocuous text messages thinking they were grave insults. She once flew off the handle at me for saying “That’s fine!” at the end of a text. Like “OMG IF YOU REALLY THOUGH IT WAS FINE YOU WOULDN’T HAVE HAD TO SAY ‘THAT’S FINE’,…

As a teen I thought my second-wave feminist mother was being ridiculous when she refused to watch Lord of the Rings because it was “all about men”. Now I am totally in her same boat. I still love LotR and think the few women who do appear are badass, but if it came out today, I’d most likely be the person reluctant to…

Rogue One was a great example of “major characters can be either women OR POC, but not both”. I still loved it, but yea, they could have done more than they did.

Incorporated is the best. I wish io9 would recap it. They don’t seem to be recapping anything lately.

I actually agree with the thing about people acting like they’re more busy or their time is more valuable than anyone else. However, you should probably never come to Canada, as we say ‘oh, sorry’ like it’s ‘hello’. At least I do.

I’m not that old really, but I think I’m officially too old for memoirs and fictionalized tell-alls depicting the supposedly glamorous, designer-labelled lifestyle of the hangers-on of the rich and/ or famous. Maybe it’s because at this point in my life I’ve actually known people who were or are part of that scene,…

Dual citizen of Canada and the US here. I am with you. I am legitimately worried that if I tried to cross the border now, some sudden new legal regulation might pop up that would require me to give up one of my citizenships because honestly, they basically don’t give out the kind of dual citizenship I have anymore and…

The places in this video sound good to me:

WIN.

I wore one when I was 17 and going backpacking, probably because that’s what everyone I knew over 50 who’d never been backpacking told me to do. I gave up wearing it after approximately one week when it became clear that walking around all day in hot sweaty weather and having a scratchy polyester thing strapped to…

Weirdly, I’ve been under the impression that no one thought logos were cool anymore. I know it was really cool in, like, 2001, but most brands seem to have been pulling back on that stuff in recent years, even previously heavily logo-oriented ones like Coach. Maybe LV is the one exception, although does anyone really…

Oh my god it’s actually worse than that though. He’s insane. He lectured me about washing my dishes. WASHING MY DISHES. Because I was “using too much water”...to wash dishes...like wtf you lunatic.