The problem I have with it is, true or not, it's just "stop and smell the roses" given a coat of paint and all the usual trappings (Even scientists didn't know this one trick! The path to happiness is simple!). Which makes it seem less like a prescient insight and more just handwringing from someone with many books to…

I used to be concerned about the antisemitism thing until I checked the profiles of people insisting it, and they were all "The BBC is disproportionately Muslim, very scary. The future writ large." It was such a relief.

I'm not so sure he seems like an outlier - Obama's entire presidency was plagued with people rejecting him so loudly that their voice was always the most important one. Based off that, Trump doesn't feel like that much of an outlier cause I expect the American president to be hated but unlike Obama, Trump seems so…I…

The possibly mindblowing other side to this is that some girls are butch and don't find other girls attractive. They used to call them "tomboys," but I guess modern girls know that look doesn't catch the right sort of man.

I've read a tiny bit of his work, but have devoured all of the CDs and broadcasts. It may be because I heard him rather than read him first (via youtube, then the BBC shows), but I'm firmly of the belief that it just works better that way. They're cute but for me the third dimension is his delivery.

The "cured her mom's paralysis" thing kind of jarred with me, even having seen the full season. When they introduced her as an incidentally-disabled supporting character I thought it was pretty admirable to bother to do that. Then they cure it with magic and it stops being "here is a disabled character just doing…

Did those tapes of his songs include "Boney" or his cover of "I Touch Myself"?

Donna got given a brutal deal, one that hurts and outrages viewers over its unfairness but elevates her into something spectacularly memorable, I feel like as a character she got a superb ending.

For all the talk of diversity, there doesn't seem to be much said of the bits where it touched on disability, which I thought were really odd. Maybe it's my own personal expectation, because I saw them go "here is a very diverse cast…and some severe injury!" and thought this meant they would address it. I thought the…

For me that accolade had to go to "IDM," which was EDM but for intellectuals (really), and more upsetting to me because in the UK we just called it "dance" or "electronic" or whatever until that term came along in the 90s, and it still makes me cringe. Though I did just look up "EDM" and wasn't at all surprised to see…

well, i just found this, might be of some interest (I've been reading it for a few minutes but it's rather lengthy. still it costs nothing to drop it here on the off chance) https://plato.stanford.edu/…

You make it clear you aren't going to try therapy again, what do you expect to happen? You'll just grow out of this?

I feel like people seem to have a "bodysense" and how strong/flexible it is varies wildly. I got seriously disabled in my 20s and that particular change didn't ever make me feel I was in the "wrong" body. I was in a newly shit body, sure, but that was it. Running parallel to that, from a really young age I had a…

Well, I imagine i'm not the first to say this sounds like body dysmorphic disorder, like it's not just feeling a bit frumpy sometimes but actual decades of your life spent on this. Still, it is your life and you've experienced everything therapy has to offer, so here's to the next 40 years.

ah, the old "pep talk from a surrogate mom" school of therapy, really the only major type there is. I hope you didn't pay much for it though, you can get it for free

The vibe I got from her at that point was "okay, we killed Joyce, Giles left, who's going to be Mom now?"

1Q84 is the book that turned me from a Murakami fan to an obsessively angry hater of all things Murakami and ruined my enjoyment of everything in retrospect (I leave that deliberately ambiguous as to whether that means it ruined my entire life or just my appreciation for Murakami's works (it ruined my life. I only…

I thought it seemed entirely normal too, but then I'm not a big fan of shows that have to stop for two minutes while the audience is talked back down from a frenzy of recognition

If you're a bit obsessive about him, you can also catch the radio show/podcast he does on Radio 2 - sadly it appears that he's been told to stop gossiping about the TV show on it, because he used to say far, far too much about it (such as what he thought of being sat on by a drunk Mark Wahlberg, or very strong hints…

Those things are a modern abomination and I'll not have one in my house.
Also get off my lawn.