Honestly, I don’t think it’s abortion as much as we think it is. I feel like we overestimate the religiousness of the suburbs, but I don’t have any data on that, just my supposition based on my experience there. I think it’s race. Democrats are associated with the racial justice narrative and for suburban white women…

Oh, good call! Yes, Kevin and Janet went on to have successful media careers.

I wrote a scathing review of Joe Millionaire in my high school paper in 2002. 

I can’t speak to the dating reality shows, but as a scholar of The Real World; Jamie Chung and Jacinda Barrett both went on to have moderately successful acting careers.

Surfing into North Korea in the cold open at least set the tone for what was to come, and I respected that. It felt like a Roger Moore Bond movie and not a Brosnan one.

She is deeply underrated as a Bond Girl as well, because she got stuck in the shittiest Brosnan turn. She was really really good in it as opposed to...most everyone else.

I shall die alone on Batman and Robin island. 

The next best example of this is 1999 when Cruel Intentions dropped. Fully shaped my understanding of New York City Rich White Teens until Igby Goes Down.

A small but might club!

Oh for sure. White lesbian here, and 100% with you. But you’re giving them too much credit with the “forgot Kat was Black”...they didn’t forget, they just straight up didn’t consider how to write a truthful Black character and didn’t bother to get someone who could.

I feel like there’s always one big Style Zeitgeist film (for teens) that changes everything and you don’t know if the film shaped fashion or the film’s stylists were ahead of the curve setting trends. Clueless was definitely one for this year (and Empire Records). Which lasted until the next one which, in my mind,…

Omg, here for everyone to describe their junior high best friend who was really into Korn but also had a sweet side.

She went on to get cast in the disastrous (I think...unfairly so!) Batman and Robin, during which she underwent constant scrutiny of her body, did a few more films (love u Blast from the Past) and then said fuck it I can live on Clueless money and save a bunch of shelter dogs.

Yeah, I’m all about flawed characters who regularly make The Wrong Choice, but Tarisai really hit it on the head with this:

They did a really really good job of setting up a takedown of White Feminism and then instead had Kat fall for White Feminism. Leave it to white writers to think this one up.....

When I first saw this storyline unfolding I was like “Ah ok, they’re going to showcase and break down the myriad of issues with White Feminism; that’s cool! The audience for this show is a good demographic to hit with this, as it is v strong and v pervasive amongst many white, cis, “liberal”, upper-class lesbians who…

This is why the majority of video game developers start with A, they price is right each other when someone leaves to start their own company

When Shelley Winters died heroically I (a small child watching with my parents one New Years Eve) I cried so hard my parents had to pause it so I could collect myself. 

Here for this love fest! She’s good in almost everything she’s in, even if its shitty source material, and elevates it to being wildly less shitty. 

I’m in the same boat. I think the only way you can really enjoy this is if you have an existing understanding of what Eurovision is, its role in EU pop culture, and how it works. As someone who unabashedly loves all WF vehicles (and feels Blades of Glory is EXTREMELY underrated when people are ranking his repertoire)…