You think the U.S. Military is going to stay on those bases when you’re not part of the U.S. anymore?

Not sure if this is a Marine Todd style copypasta or not but still: You know that if you (try) to leave you don’t get to keep the bases or the marines right?

SC out, Puerto Rico in. Git’er done!

“Don’t you know what Hillary has done!?”

Taught a lot of girls that, too. I wasn’t as much of a critical feminist thinker when I was in middle school and I didn’t dig that deep on Duckie. I liked him, I didn’t like Blaine, and I thought Andie made a bad decision.

Not quite a decade after that initial viewing of Pretty In Pink, I started up a flirtation with…

Sorry, you’ve edited your comment since I started my response.

he does it multiple times. i just watched the movie a few days ago. also, riding by her house dozens of times a day? riding in circles in a lot across from her house, watching? calling -repeatedly- and leaving messages every time within the space of like 20 minutes?

Waiting outside a club for hours that she goes to SPECIFICALLY knowing he can’t get in, just to ambush her when she comes out?

The mid-course correction to NOT have Andie end up with Duckie was the best decision they made in that movie. The guy had issues. When one person is that enamored of another who doesn’t share the same feelings, it’s going to be a weird friendship. Turn that into a romantic relationship and you’re looking at an…

Also, not to derail too much, but can we also talk about how Duckie Dale taught a generation of guys that pushy, entitled, Nice Guy behavior was quirky and adorable rather than being borderline stalkery?

Me included, by the way. I spent a LOT of my teens acting like garbage because I thought I was a Manic Pixie…

Aside from the grossness of trading Caroline off for a pair of chonies, I never even understood why we were meant to root for Sam and dislike Caroline. Because Caroline’s... blonde? Because she has the guy that Sam wants? One of the things that struck me as an adult was that Caroline’s actually really nice*; she even…

There are a ton of movies in this category. Animal House and Revenge of the Nerds are the rapiest fucking movies ... and I thought both of them were cool and hilarious when I was a kid.

What astounds me is how OK we were ... how OK I have been ... with this particular plotline for what – 30 FREAKING YEARS? Why? Were we all collectively asleep?

Exactly what would you want him to say? The films are what they are. It was a different time and most people, including myself as a teen, didn’t miss a beat while watching them. Ringwald has every right to talk about the films that made her famous; she is asked about them all of the damn time. Pretending the movies…

I just came to the realization late last year that the entire “I’ll let you take Caroline home” trade-off is so incredibly awful, and of course I realized this after I had already shown “Sixteen Candles” to my 14-year-old son and his best friend.

What astounds me is how OK we were ... how OK I have been ... with this…

Sixteen Candles is essentially unwatchable now between the racism and the misogyny.

Oh he’s a Democrat.

Yep, when he says “working class” he means the white section of it.

Bernie got his start in politics from NRA money and backing. His ascendancy as a white working class hero came by aligning himself with the Lou Dobbsian, Mexican-phobic, anti-immigrant movement of the 2000's. He doubled down on his hostility towards migrant labor when he attacked Dolores Huerta (who is a legit civil…

Bernie Sanders is an asshole. Bernie Sanders talks about the losses in the Democratic Party like he was on Mars at the time, not sitting in the fucking Senate. He talks like he was hatched from an egg in 2016. Did we not need a socialist revolution in 1992 or 96 or 2000 or 04 or 08? Bernie Sanders is the crank sitting…