I did this. It was very useful, though I still have like a painful ring of tissue in the vestibule that makes intercourse a bad idea. But yeah, if you have vaginismus you should definitely ask your doctor about physical therapy. It’s not *just* psychological. Funny/super awkward story about physical therapy for this:…

On this topic: I was just on the film set of “The Zookeeper’s Wife” in Prague. The book is a fascinating mishmash of unearthed information about saving Jews in the Warsaw Zoo after the city was bombed early in WWII. (A Gentile family decided to stay in the zoo to work with the underground. Their zoo became a secret…

I agree and disagree. I think there are obviously a lot of human stories to mine or retell in the context of such a horrific event. I think it is important for those of us who were not alive at WWII and may even not remember speaking to a relative who served in WWII to never forget. But at what point is the pain of…

Conversations often include exchange of similar lines of thought.

I can tell you, as a white person, there’s nothing we love better than to look at the past and talk about how much better we are than we were back then. Slavery movies do that very well. We can watch them then give ourselves a big circle jerk about how much better things are now, and that since we dont’t literally…

There are, actually, very, very few movies about slavery, especially given the kind of overarching and overwhelming impact slavery has had on American (and global) history, culture, economics, and politics up to this current day. One of the “big deals” about 12 Years a Slave was the very fact that a film centered on…

You know, on the regular . Every time you blink Tom Cruise poops out another action flick that no one cares about.

It’s pretty fucking rich that people are cool with consuming and confronting slavery in the form of entertainment while gasping at the horror of it all, but refuse to budge when it comes to things like criminal justice reform, income inequality, etc., and acknowledging the lingering effects of a country built on the…

Unpopular Opinion: I don’t want to read any more books based on The Holocaust. Sarah’s Key, The Lampshade, The Book Thief, Number the Stars, All the Light We Cannot See...

They do, but only to terrible schools where they are about to drop out until some middle-age white man having a mid-life crisis really connects with them.

You know what I would love? More movies with black people just being people. Like dramas, character pieces, etc., with black people just being normal people, you know, like we are in real life. Not “black movies” (stay away Tyler Perry. Stay far, far away). Not slavery movies. Not Straight Outta Compton. Not Boyz in…

That’s what I find most hilarious. They just confirmed for a news outlet that the things claimed by HondAnonymous are accurate.

Good on you guys. I’ll keep this in mind if my insider knowledge of deep fried and frosted breakfast confectioneries is ever relevant to a discussion.

Nice closing to the article. I approve. I am also a honda engineer!
(Not really, see how that works? You can say ANYTHING)

So, they’re saying all this stuff is CORRECT?

5,000 years old... This Justice League movie is starting to feel like its going to be a harder sell to the public than the Avengers was. In Avengers the characters have all a fairly standard origin story. Aside from Thor there is nothing too out of the ordinary for them, and he is explained via inter-planetary…

“Does this mean the older Bruce and Diana are gonna crack a lot of jokes about Superman being a young whippersnapper?”

i am hoping for superman/wonderwoman stand off , then suddenly Jason Momoa/aquaman turns up and kicks both their ass before tag teaming in the flash who hits batman with chair like some kinda royal rumble of a movie.

Vanessa, is there any chance you can arrange more cross-postings to Jezebel or Vitals? I think there’s relevance for both sites (particularly this article), but mainly I hate the idea that After Hours got another shot only for it to die off again because its commentariat (understandably) didn’t know it’d been reborn.