I feel about this the same way I did about that wall street leonardo di caprio movie Scorcese directed. Another one?? Because there are not enough movies about rich idiots?? You’re Martin Scorcese, you can make a movie about anything you fucking want, and THIS is your chosen topic??? Enough already. Enough.
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Not quite contemporary, but Flannery O’Connor’s letters are feisty as hell.
Considering that she dropped an anal sex joke in one of her books —
Unfortunately, the woman that was forced to give an armed police officer a blow job didn’t get to choose which horrific experience she would prefer. Neither did the lady who suffered 3rd degree burns from near-boiling coffee. Nobody gets to choose.
And a trend amongst the more rich people within those countries.
I was on morphine 24 hours a day for over two years because of nerve damage in my ribs. I have recently started feeling better, and so I thought I could go off the morphine. I tapered down, and then finally went through full withdrawal two weeks ago. It was literally hell. And it filled my heart with compassion for…
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Sometimes I think she finds humor in “being on the wrong side of history”. Or she’ll hop onto a contrary mare/high horse and feel compelled to ride it into the ground. She may have also just been trying to get a rise out of me. I also knew her parents and there is no part of me that believes they were deeply committed…
She’s built up a considerable amount of goodwill from me so I’m going to have to let it go. Still
People say this, but I really don’t get it. I didn’t like the West Wing, Moneyball, or The Social Network. Is there a better starting point for Sorkin that isn’t quite so ridiculous?
This is so sad. In 1978, I was one of two adopted babies allowed out of India. The adoption was through Missionaries of Charity. Given the long-ingrained contempt of women and girls in some aspects of Indian culture, to think that that many more children won’t be helped (mostly girls) is heartbreaking.
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I think As Good As it Gets summed it up quite nicely:
In honor of rescue dogs- this guy. In a shelter 7 months ago. Now revered as a minor diety. (He’s wearing my husband’s socks)
I was 17 and an overemotional, overeducated, slightly overweight smart girl when I had an affair with a very popular married high school teacher. I felt absolutely compelled and duty-bound to keep it a secret, even to this day - and you can tell, since I’m writing this from a burner account. There were so many…
What a deeply moving, beautifully told and authentic piece of writing. I recall in 7th grade a girl was rumored to have “done it” with her own father. The whole school passed the tale around with great relish. I recall wondering how that poor girl, whose family was broke, and who appeared very bedraggled, tough, and…
My mother was molested by both her oldest brother and her father. The oldest brother also molested a younger brother, who later drank himself to death. My mother tried to tell, and this was in the early 60’s. So naturally, she was sent to reform school. My grandmother spent most of the time on the couch drugged on…
You are incredibly brave for standing up in your community and saying what happened. Not only because people need to be confronted with it but because those community members that would enable even if unintentionally should have their viewpoints challenged as well because I think a lot of the abusers power is only as…
When I was 17, I smiled constantly, still hiding the worst secret of my life. By that point, I was barely conscious…