I think it’s from around 2015?  Not too old--it features a mom that just had reconstructive plastic surgery and her two young boys. 

My husband and i watched Gone Baby Gone last night because I never saw it back in 2007, and I feel like I’m just over the Afflecks in general. I found him to be so deeply unlikable, and not just because of his character. Just no. Also I love the movie suggestions—It Follows was one that fucked me up for a while, and…

This is a great article, I love this show for many of the same reasons.  “Energetic anguish” is such a great descriptor of what hypomania feels like too--I think the words mania and depression imply happy vs sad, but when I’m manic it usually feels like being on a rollercoaster that someone just told me is defective…

I just wrote a long semi-academic comment on this very thing and have NEVER heard of the Cassandra Complex--this is amazing and so spot on!

One of my favorite examples of this trope is the the Alien franchise. People always praise these movies as being an early example of an empowered female lead. However I would argue until the day I die that Ripley HAD to be female, otherwise the behavior of the crew towards her (beginning with ignoring her commands to…

I thought the animation of them 69ing was so funny—its one of those things that you hear/think about a ton before you start having sex, and then realize later that its clunky and weird and a super inefficient way to get off. So the perfect thing to be highlighted in virginal fan fic.  I just love this show in general,…

I really can’t relate to someone who is simply “angry” after spending $5700 on something. I would be basically destitute because that is almost all of my liquid cash on earth. It’s kind of the same reason I enjoy stuff like art theft—like, that sucks, but the fact that you have that kind of money to throw around in the…

I think that new laws are really easy to blame for this, but the fact that this happened to a black pregnant woman cannot be centered enough—dehumanization of black women is the primary lede, and in this case has merged with reproductive freedom issues to from an almost unimaginably inhumane clusterfuck. The terrible…

My instagram post about getting married got 50 more likes than my post about graduating with my doctorate, so I feel this so hard.

white people am i right

I used to pass the Bubba Gump’s on my way to work at a different tourist-aimed restaurant on Market St when I first lived in Charleston, and literally EVERY time I would marvel at the fact that it was a restaurant based on a movie. Once I actually googled it to confirm that the movie HAD in fact come first, because…

My husband and I recently decided not to have kids as a direct result of finances/student debt.  It’s a real thing, and if my student loans were suddenly gone, the rest of it could be paid off in about 6 months and our disposable income would go up by about $600 a month.  

“expensive-looking skin”

Im just tired of rape scenes in movies in general. We get it, rape is a part of the reality of women. We know that because a lot of us have lived it. But more and more I see rape scenes thrown into movies because “TRUTH” when really its not even integral to the plot or story, its just something EdGy that film-makers…

The second I saw this headline I thought about The Rock’s workout videos, I have wondered this for months.  Thank you for this in-depth investigative piece, I didn’t even realize how haunted I was by this question until now. 

We’ve all been there, girl

I have nothing against religion as an idea—if Christians actually focused on Christ’s teachings it would be progressive and revolutionary. But the thing that actually happens—using fear and ignorance as weapons for conversion, cherry picking arbitrary footnotes from scripture to oppress certain groups while keeping…

Lol at “actively gay people”. What about former gays with an honorable discharge

I didn’t read any of this article.  But I didn’t have to, because lengthy, all-caps posts from middle aged white men almost always guarantee a thoughtful, nuanced, and not at all paranoid critique of current social issues. 

Thank you for this article, I love jokes too, and sometimes even sports jokes!  This really was a couple of good jokes.