Knoxvillian here! And you’re exactly right. For the most part we’re tough, mean little Celts who don’t feel sorry for ourselves or take ourselves too seriously. I love it here. It’s truly unique. And Dolly is our queen.

I'm in Elizabethton! Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg are hokey but in a good way. Even now, I still love to go and spend the day. The drive to Gatlinburg is gorgeous.

Yeah, I prefer the Satanic Temple’s tactic of circumventing all of the wait periods and useless ultrasound nonsense, etc, by saying that it all violates their religious rights. Because it reinforces the idea that women have a right to bodily autonomy that shouldn’t be based on anyone else’s religious beliefs, but on…

You aren’t tired of your mother’s bullshit yet. Hang in there.

You need to break up with your mom.

I agree. It took me years but I’m finally no contact with my maternal unit. DarlingNikki, your story reminds me of the time mine quit speaking to me for about 8 months because I wouldn’t drop my work and drive 8 hours to pick her up 3 states away WITH MY HAND IN A SLING just because she didn’t want to take the train…

Your mother is sounds like the kind who will suck your blood and complain about the taste. I hope your can continue to resist her guilt trips! Time to stop driving her, methinks.

You know what DTMFA stands for? In this case I think you need to DTFMA.

Stop being “nice.” She doesn’t appreciate it, and as long as you are, she’ll never stop being so demanding.

Oh, it’s time for Momma to grow up!

You need to learn to say ‘no’. She’ll suck your blood dry if you don’t.

I would have been fine with that scene on it’s own, but juxtaposed with everything else in that movie, gah it made me so ragey. Clint’s secret life with wife and 2.5 kids in the country is supposed to be this ideal existence, and then you have Bruce and Natasha (and good god what happened to setting up a story? That…

Yeah, I gotta say I found that disturbing. So...I guess I’m a monster by choice, whereas Black Widow had her monstrosity forced upon her? I should probably see the movie again to see if I interpreted the dialog wrong, but since I’m apparently not the only person who said, “Wait, what?”....that indicates that, yeah,…

I don’t disagree with any of that, but I making Black Widow’s worst pain that she was sterilized was a shitty move, because rather than choosing parts of her story in which she had some measure of agency, they chose one where they raped her body. It’s a very feminized form of violence and in a movie where the dialogue…

I also thought it was a cheap shot. I DON’T HAVE A UTERUS SEE I AM A MONSTER TOO. NOT BEING ABLE TO DO THE ONE THING THAT MAKES ME A WOMAN MEANS I AM A MONSTER VIS A VIS. Like... wut???

I’ve actually suffered from diagnosed infertility, though I eventually went on to have twins through IUI.

That annoyed me so much. I wasn’t fond of the romance plot to begin with (if you insist on having a love story in your action movie, don’t give it to your only female team member), but that scene really took the cake. “I just destroyed a city and probably killed a bunch of people along the way, I’m a monster!” - “I…

That entire film just felt like a fanfic filled with OOCs (with the exception of Whedon’s fave, Iron Man) and fight scenes. All flash and no substance. And I’ve spent so much time raging about what this film did wrong on Tumblr that I have no energy left... Calling yourself a feminist and portraying a female this way…

okay, I can answer this! Sex shop manager with ten years of experience here! Okay, you know how the article mentioned that the phthalates break down? Well, when that happens it can cause severe skin irritation, like a my vagina is on fire oh god why feeling. So that's why phthalates in your sex toys is bad. I…