I don’t know how Benson got through Buffy with her self esteem intact. Do you remember how she got fat shamed by Oz-Willow shippers who wanted to hate her for any reason, so much so she actually posted on the Bronze message board to stand up for herself? Even though she was an average size for a working TV actress, ie…

Buffy and Angel were extremely important TV shows in my life (never watched Dollhouse or Firefly so can’t comment on those) and even now they’re some of my comfort shows.

The majority of people aren’t eating Impossible junk food because they think it’s better for their bodies, they’re eating it because it’s better for the planet than Big Meat junk food is. 

Oh fucking gross I’d forgotten about the one acting like he was kissy facing the cutout as well. 

I remember seeing a story here a couple of years ago (?) showing a bunch of young white bros at one of their hate rallies posing with a cardboard cutout of AOC. One of them had his hand at the cutout’s throat in the classic porn style choke hold.

I’ve seen guys offer to walk attractive female friends to their cars, taxis, bus or train stations etc, but not think they need to do the same for less attractive friends as I guess only pretty girls need protection.

(Tangential to main story because I’m pretty sure Mulligan’s character wasn’t raped herself, she is avenging a friend who was)

In case anyone is curious what he looks like, this is Dennis Harvey, writer of the review in Variety. :)

I love raw meat (European steak tartare and Korean yukhoe are two of my most favourite things to eat) so yeah I’d absolutely try this if it was prepared by someone I trusted. 

Oh I’m old enough haha. I’m still not totally over how Muriel’s Wedding got mis-marketed (and is therefore sometimes misremembered in the pop culture conscious) as a rom com, just because the lead character is female and it has the word “wedding” in the title. It’s actually a bit of a gut punch of a film.

Rebel Wilson actually played a character like this in a movie, I think it’s called Bachelorette? One of her bridesmaids, played by Kirsten Dunst has a scene where she rages about how it’s just not fair that she’s beautiful and thin and Wilson is fat but Wilson is the one getting married. She and the other bridesmaids…

It’s called “Pretty Girls Need Jobs Too”. 😬 https://jezebel.com/pretty-girls-need-jobs-too-5980607

My BFF’s husband didn’t even remember I was with her the night they met, when recollecting the night much later he thought she was alone. Because yeah, sure, conventionally hot young women go clubbing by themselves on New Year’s Eve all the time, it makes way more sense she was there by herself rather than with her…

The “and introducing Cloris Leachman” credit at the start of “Raising Hope” made me laugh almost every episode. 

Right??? I still buy physical books (especially cook books, graphic novels and any books generally where the pictures are a big component). Buying something to read at the airport bookstore when I’m about to go on a flight has been my travel ritual forever and will probably continue being it whenever the fuck air…

It’s so frustrating isn’t it that in even some fairly mainstream feminist spheres thin privilege and beauty privilege are still touchy subjects. Thin privilege discourse can get derailed by the usual boring concerntrolling about health. And I think people don’t like talking about beauty privilege sometimes as they’re…

Did you see any of the short lived American version? Not one of the finer moments in cross-cultural remakes of international intellectual properties. D: (no offence if you’re American!)

C’mon, I think it’s a little snarky to paint it as though she’s “just learned” about fatphobia and sizeism if that’s what you meant. I’m not surprised that she spells it out in interviews when she’s asked about it, as while I’d bet the farm it’s not news to her that society rewards women for achieving thinness it…

This. Some veggies are hardy, but others are hardly worth eating after a few days in the vegetable section of the fridge even with the right settings. Bulk buying for multiple meals isn’t always practical, especially if you’re single or a household of two.