So when it was bees vs birth control, ya’ll decided pollinating crops was more important. But now that your precious pets are on the chopping block, your tune has changed. Really? The blind devotion of a cute animal is worth starving for, but not the pill that liberated womankind? I’ll be the first to chow down on…

*dismisses another disproportionately furious reply*

Damn. Bros sure hate it when you fail to worship the actor who did that one aggressive monologue they still love to quote at parties ten years later.

Come sit with me, Jennifer! I haaaate DDL’s performances to begin with (the frenzied level at which he emotes is just super inauthentic and distracting to me; I always feel like I’m watching some butthurt theater professor trying to prove how hard he can act. So hard! Much yelling! Such spittle!), but THIS is his…

Whoa! I’ve never been able to put my finger on this exact feeling, and this dude nailed it. To me, there is just something so wooden and uninteresting about heroes who read as “super-powered person who has to fit in with the rest of us between battles” and not “person with super powers”. A hero’s personal life informs…

After a few years of seeing the name Pentatonix pop up here and there but never hearing their music, this comment finally prompted me to go listen to some of it.

I felt a little squicky about that, too, until realizing she’d never be speaking about it all without her family’s consent. At the tour show, she had a long monologue before singing “Joanne”, explaining that it’s a song about generational pain, about how a tragedy that happened even before you are born can play a…

I think they meant underappreciated by people who consider themselves great arbiters of music. We all have those friends who bought Iron and Wine on vinyl once and have since decided that anything that ever involved backup dancers is not real music. Those kinds of people are everywhere, and they are loud.

Hot take from a fellow stan friend of mine: “she’s gearing up for a permanent name change. She’s been doing that winky “call me Joanne” thing since the album came out, and her documentary was all about how she feels like she’s outgrown certain parts of her act and wants to mature and “become a woman in this industry”.…

See this is exactly why my partner (full-time gamer) flat-out refuses to watch it, and in his case I find it pretty eyeroll-worthy. Really? You’re gonna miss out on some pretty spectacular, emotionally impactful storytelling . . . because you feel personally defensive when old people complain about kids and their…

I kept thinking she accidentally turned the censor function back accidentally before busting the screen (because her mom’s face was blurred) and that she was gonna spend the rest of her life unable to see anything sensational. Unable to enjoy scary movies or thrill rides or sex. Yikes!

Arkangel: Sara was part of the testing group for Arkangel, and the psychologist Sara sees when she’s nine or so says that the program never got off the ground, because it caused the kinds of problems in other test subjects that Sara was seeing him for in the first place. So there is no generation of kids who’ve grown…

omg this. My cousins do some cool stuff as parents, like limit their 9yr-old’s daughter’s screen time. But they also pre-screen EVERYTHING, and refuse to let her watch anything that has concepts they think she can’t fully grasp yet. She couldn’t watch Sandlot or Home Alone because they don’t want her to see how the…

White People Annual Board Meeting:

I disagree that her more stripped-down era is less suitable for vegas than her meat dress era. My Dad, for instance. He’s a 58-year-old redneck, and he LOVES her. (Like, I have to send him a recording of “Edge of Glory” from live shows and he literally sheds tears listening to them, loves her). But he’ll never go to…

THIS. THIIIIS.

I got that impression that she is just very career-driven when I heard a short NPR bit about her, right around the time she was replacing Spicer. I don’t remember the details, but I remember being surprised by her resumé or whatever, and how sharp it made her sound. Very unlike literally everyone else he tags to do…

Yeah I am weirdly impressed by her. Wouldn’t pass up an opportunity to push her into an active volcano, but impressed nonetheless.

Honestly I’m more* appalled that he is supposed to be honoring men who bravely did incredible things to serve a country that didn’t give a shit about them, and all he can manage is the usual off-the-cuff limited word salad. “I like you because you are special.” Are you fucking kidding me, man? When someone comes…

While there is no silver lining to a Trump presidency, I take what nourishment I can from the small crumb that is Melania’s obvious misery.

“Women are special.”