If they can write a character for Emma Thompson in, I guarantee all movie-going people in their sixties will make this a huge hit.

This is actually on my day off! Already snagged a ticket.

My viewing the novel's internalized sexism is about more than just the main character. Within the text, every female character- save his lawyer's wife, is painted as, at best, dubious about Nick's role in Amy's disappearance, and, at worst, downright deceitful and manipulative. The woman who befriends Amy? Betrays…

I think that's a fair assessment of her work. I haven't read Dark Places, but it seems kind of odd that Gone Girl is so textually anti-cool girl, and in Sharp Objects, being the cool girl is what saves the protagonist. Being a hard-drinking, always-DTF woman allows her to form connections with the men of the novel,…

I find that section of the novel- with the NPH character- to be extremely frustrating. False accusations of rape are far more common in fiction and the minds of dicks like Bill Frezza than in real life, and the fact that Flynn added that trope into her book to show how much of a sociopath one of the novel's women was…

I know I'll see Gone Girl at some point, but I've never been a fan of Gillian Flynn's work. In both this story, and in Sharp Objects, I felt there was way too much internalized sexism for my liking. I think it's probably more apparent in that earlier novel, but the fact that every female character- aside from the…

What about an illegal casino with a grocery store front run by Chinaman? Because I found out recently that's what my family's many stores actually were. Makes me wonder if my grandfather had his throat slit by skinheads, or people who wanted to put him out of business.

My mom too. No matter how many times me and my sister tell her that the founding fathers wouldn't want an Asian woman like her to have any rights, she continues to cold-call people for her Tea Party chapter. She IS a self-loathing Chinese person though- she once told my sister that sometimes she looks in the mirror…

Honestly, the reportedly poorly-written female characters are why I've yet to watch season one. I tend to agree with Emily Nussbaum's analysis, and the lack of complex women on the show makes me less-inclined to check it out. That, and all my male friends telling me it was their "soul" on-screen. I know…

I tried to read Delirium and couldn't make it more than halfway through. I just found Oliver's prose incredibly bland. Is there another work of hers I should check out?

It's cool. Now I just look like a crazy woman, mumbling to myself about unrelated stories, waiting to be institutionalized.

That's probably my least favorite Waters novel… meaning that it's still really great, heads above other historical fiction. And what a suckerpunch of an ending.

There's a lot of contention among queer women because Heard left her girlfriend of several years for Depp. It's hypocritical of me to be bothered by it, since I was certain for a long time that I was 100% gay, but I'm now in a relationship with a man, but I think it's group mentality. There's a lot of mistrust among…

The number of zeros on Johnny Depp's paycheck.

I thought of your Sarah Waters love today when telling a coworker about Park Chan Wook's new movie. This review makes me really tempted to bite the bullet and order the hardcover. Between this and the new Emma Donoghue, it's a good year for lesbian period fiction.

You should read the novel. It's a really great character study, and even the specific Greek elements in terms of alienation were pretty relatable for me, at least in that they reminded me of what it was like to grow up with an extended family of immigrants. I'm cautiously optimistic about this adaptation, even…

Between her lesbian and her time with the boys, Nancy was quite a libertine.

The article I linked to in this thread originally identified him as Adam Baldwin, but it's since been amended.

http://www.themarysue.com/v…
It's been amended since I read it, but I did confuse the harassment of Zoë Quinn, which did include posting photos of her, with Anita Sarkeesian. Sorry about that.

He's always been a conservative dick, but even my "I'm not racist, I hate everyone equally" libertarian dad would never condone this kind of behavior. Probably because he has daughters who have been abused by awful dudes, but still.