None of the romances in Harry Potter worked for me.
None of the romances in Harry Potter worked for me.
I don’t understand the heavy dislike of Ron either. Harry was a cartoon caricature of melodramatic self indulgent teenager for a whole book.
Or he could be a responsible adult who outgrew his adolescent emotional insecurity and aggression.
I didn’t like Ron much, just like everyone else, but at least he kept his angst for emotional explosions and truly confusing moments, not like Harry “this-scar-makes-me-special” Potter, who was a whinefest for a whole…
That epilogue was truly bad. I think she’d gotten really tired of writing for children/teens/young adults by that point and wrote the epilogue for adults.
I would have loved to see Lauren Bacall get her Life Achievement award, for one. Seeing Barbara Stanwyck and Deborah Kerr get theirs were the highlights of their respective ceremonies; such that it made the rest of the night worth sitting through.
Exactly. And I still haven't forgiven them for moving the awards for lifetime achievement/Herscholt Humanitarian, etc., to the non-televised "Governors Awards" ceremony. These recipients are living fucking legends (Hollywood-wise) and they've been booted off the telecast so the host has more time to have a pizza…
It IS hard, because so much of parenting involves forcing kids to do things they don’t want to do. I think that’s why a lot of parents forget about consent, because they have to spend so much energy of “DO WHAY I SAY DAMMIT.”
I love her coming for Rubio. Especially when he said Hillary wants it to be legal for women to have abortions on their due date and she said, “That’s called a cesarean.” And when he said, “I would rather lose an election than be wrong on the issue of life,” and she said, “Looks like you’ll do both!”
This is a really nice, well-thought post. I think you’re entirely right about it, and I see it within my own divorced mother’s new dating life. She used to complain about football and golf (which is undoubtely The Worst) on TV, and now she’s watching both along side her new boyfriend and cheering for his favorite team.
So Kristen Stewart is....Taken?
This is for all the assholes who plug their ears every time we talk about sexism and internalized misogyny in the media or anywhere else.
I’m looking forward to seeing PPZ, but I could not get through the book. I ended up throwing the book across the room and declaring, “Mr. Darcy would NEVER make sexual innuendos!” I think the book would have worked better if it had been the *actual* characters from P&P, with the actual characteristics Austen gave…
I would totally do this. My Fiance and I talk about trashy gossip mags all the time. Pretending that interest in pop culture is “gay” is silly. As for shopping, most guys LOOOOOOVE shopping. I think a lot of guys just aren’t comfortable in the women’s department because of how they think they are perceived (either…
Excellent article, though I would make one caveat. IMO, the reason so many readers love Darcy is that he isn’t chiefly attracted to Elizabeth for her looks, but becomes attracted to her and trusts her based on who she is as a person- so it still supports the article’s contention.
I personally, especially as I get older, find the St. John chapters of Jane Eyre fascinating, and St. John himself the personification of “unaware that he’s unaware” privilege, a striking contrast to Big Daddy Rochester; his money, his demands, his prickly personality, his horror show of a marriage and how he dealt…
Ikr! I hadn’t even noticed until the entire salt mines of the internet made sure everyone knew.
Me too! Abed’s love of Farscape is so endearing. I loved that episode where he gets hit on by some guy, turns him down and says he really loves talking about Farscape and only to get a drink thrown in his face.
I fell in love when they started casually talking about the Farscape plot without any real joke or punchline. Nobody mentions Farscape.
No. Robot Chicken actually did satire. And when it did stuff like Big Bang Theory it was often in parody of that type of “nerd humor”.