Yeah the author definitely started with a conclusion and then tried to make the rest fit. Maybe with more time to research and edit si might have made sense.

Isn’t there a word that’s neither child nor woman and conveys that in between stage? Something like “teenager”? 

That’s your take. I don’t agree and will continue to use it regularly. Language is a beautiful thing, words can be both good and bad and everything in between, context is everything and the language police can fuck right off.

Yeah I use cunt a lot and it always shocks Americans, it’s a lot less common here and in Canada than in the UK and other parts of the English speaking word. I grew up in Europe surrounded by lots of brits who used it in the daily and I picked up the habit. I use it positively but I also use it as an insult and there…

I think it’s bitch and mean spirited and bitter and petty but not homophobic.

Yeah I feel the same. I’m a lifelong Bond fan (except for the Pierce Brosnan years) and I love Waller-bridge and this sounds cool but I don’t understand the obsession with making female versions of male characters/franchises and calling it “progress” and acting like it’s some feminist achievement. Why do women have to…

Yeah in this specific case, for sure, and not only because Hill was a trans man but because physically they could not have looked more different and it’s obvious ScarJo was trying to Monster her way into an Oscar nod the way Charlene Theron or Christian Bale have, either through a major physical transformation (weight…

She’s saying some people privilege social justice over artistic freedom (and business interests, though she doesn’t mention it) and that insisting on this can at times affect/hinder artistic freedom.

Personally I think it’s something that has to be evaluated on a case by case basis. If someone can pass for whatever the character they’re playing is supposed to be (see: the omar sharif and Anthony Quinn examples cited above) I generally don’t have an issue. Sometimes it’s so egregious that it’s obvious it could…

But by that same definition, doesn’t all art that’s made about a person render that person - male or female - “inhuman”?

It wad different 50 years ago when women had fewer options. While we still have a ways to go, I would argue that these days any woman who puts herself in that position has to own her decision. Don’t marry - much less have kids with - a creative man baby if what you want is a partner who will view you as an equal.

Don’t we all idealise the people we’re in love with though? At least at the beginning, before real life resumes and we start getting to really know our lovers?

By that same definition, any art made about a person - male or female - is objectification. Which seems like a really reductive take on art.

I mean, at this point, basically anyone who’s in the news gets death threats, whether they’re on the left or the right, so as much as I’m on her side against President Asshole, this isn’t surprising or, frankly, all that worrying since when’s the last time someone was killed by the people sending them anonymous death…

I also think it’s a generational thing. Kids growing up today have this need to announce everything publicly, there’s something performative and a little narcissistic/thirsty about it. And not just about their own gender identity and sexuality, it’s everything from past trauma to baby gender reveals to putting their…

I knew there was a brother but I think this is the first time I see a photo of him. I think he’s quite pretty actually, this is probably what Bella looked like before she got her horrible nose job that turned her into a cheap Carla Bruni knock off.  

At least she stopped giving herself sharpie Edgar Allen Poe-meets-chola brows.

We’ve had packages stolen from my building lobby by people who manage to get in because some idiot resident didn’t close the door properly, or let people in even though they didn’t have keys. I don’t own the building but I’m sure as hell not letting anyone in unless i know they live there, I don’t care if they tell me …

But she’s not a Democratic socialist! Burn the witch!

This. They don’t seem to grasp the concept that just because you want something it doesn’t mean the majority of the democratic electorate does. I mean, it’s fucking Kentucky, do they really think that the state that elected McConnell and loves trump is suddenly going to elect an AOC type to the senate? are the writers…