I think a lot of adults have a lot to learn about the future generations. Bodily functions are not scary, and not weird. If more people would teach their kids that, it would be a total non-issue.

I agree. I think when he describes seeing the tampons in the book he's more intruiged than disgusted, because it's an area of life he had no idea about.

the creative director for the new Tomb Raider game says that's the exact feeling he's going for with Lara and...he gets his asshole ripped apart.

She isn't raped. Sexually assaulted, yes, but there is no penetration

My recollection of the book is that when Carrie gets all dolled up in her prom dress, with hair done and some makeup, she is discovered to actually be quite pretty. Her date even thinks of her as beautiful.

I feel your nausea. :) Hell, I kept up the cleaning part-time to help pay my way through university and journalism school. I'm no longer surprised at what pigs people can be when they know others will be cleaning up the mess. Office kitchenettes - vile. Was often tempted to buy a lipstick and leave a message Shini…

And not just a female one. In one of those delicious ironies you can laugh about long after the fact, my first copy of Carrie was confiscated and burned when I was 13 and attending an all-male boarding school. A place where, let's just say, it wasn't a great experience being a fat, bookish, bad-at-sports,…

When I left school, I spent a year as a commercial cleaner and will cheerfully admit that, yeah, I always felt slightly twitchy about cleaning women's toilets because it just wasn't somewhere I should be, even in the middle of the night. Doing my job. I wasn't reduced to a sobbing, twitching emasculated mess by the…

Quite - but I see where Pierce was coming from. After all, there's plenty of misogyny around the idea that menstruation renders women unclean and insane (how many times have you heard a "uh oh, must be that time of the month!" every time a woman gets even mildly annoyed?) A woman's period is a physical indication…

A lot of people asked this when Chloe Moretz was announced as Carrie (which kind of frustrated me because she's an actress so she can play anything) but some folks felt Chloe was too strong or beautiful to play a misfit, Carrie.

In the book On Writing Stephen King said that he was inspired to write Carrie (especially the shower scene) after seeing tampons in the girl's shower room while he was working as a janitor in a school. It always struck me as a man being horrified by women.

Everytime Charlie starts making those ridiculously exaggerated expressions of stoic grief while she pretends to struggle not to cry and talks about FAAAAAAAAAMILY I can feel my eyes rolling so hard they want to go bouncing across the room.

I think what really blew my mind in last night's episode was how badly the writers misjudged how viewers would feel about Charlie. It isn't the actress, I finally realized. It's that this show is written as though people will find Charlie sympathetic.

1) Charlie can't act. It's so bad my wife said, while watching this episode; "Charlie can't act."

Not that I'm defending the Militia — but I'm surprised that nobody ever points out that the sheltered upbringing that allows Charlie and Danny to be so smug and so sure of their moral principles came as a result of people like Tom Neville going out there and killing scumbags like Mr. Headbanger.

Countries have their alternate film versions

I suspect, like everywhere else, the audience will be pretty strongly polarized between "this is fraking awesome" and "what a load of pretentious horse shit". :)

I have. Please leave the moderation to people who actually have mod privileges.

It's quite shitty of him to sign a contract and then come out to say this.

At least Hugo Weaving can open his mouth without being a sexist prick.