Noooo. My grandmother has told me a few times about what it was like being completely knocked out with drugs (they didn’t ask her permission of course, just decided everything for her, natch) then used forceps while she was pretty much passed out to yank the baby out. They can do so much damage like that.

By what form of twisted white logic does this geezer (and his good pal Taylor) think it’s cool or cute to cover Trap Queen? You sound ridiculous.

Right? I didn’t get the tone here either.

Interesting that this seems to be a rare case where female characters have been aged-up for a movie. In the book the Therese character is 19 and Carol is 30, whereas the actresses they’ve chosen are each about 10 years older than that.

Just read this book - loved it. Was (perhaps foolishly on my part?) pleasantly surprised by its quite frank and progressive depiction of lesbian desire and romance, given the era in which it was written. In notes at the back, Patricia Highsmith said she was still getting letters from LGTB Americans decades later…

On a related note: my boyfriend and I are heading to a destination wedding in Europe shortly for one of his friends. It’s costing a bomb in flights and hotels, as you can imagine. On their wedding invite, the couple has said not to feel obligated to buy gifts but then included a link to a registry at a very upmarket…

That sounds really awful, sorry you’ve had to deal with that most of your life. Parents can be such kids.

Neparstek announced his surprise (?) departure from the Good Weekend yesterday.

Yes all the snark here is weird and misplaced. Any kid whose been through a screaming, petty divorce can appreciate the effort these two are making. Good for them.

This is so well written, thanks.

My uncle gave everyone (and I mean everyone) in our extended family a HUGE framed wedding portrait of him and his second wife for Christmas one year. Like, bigger than the portraits people had of their own weddings.

It can be really hard to understand why people smoke when you don’t smoke yourself, given all the obvious health risks, the fact that its a fucked-up lying corporate industry etc.

So distracting. Like, she did a decent job in SLP, but the idea that this glamorous 22-year-old was a widower in her late thirties was laughable and made the movie seem absurd. Likewise, she was all wrong for the role in American Hustle, far too young to be playing bitter housewife. Those scenes just did not have the…

Also not someone even remotely qualified to assess cancer risks.

The lack of scientific literacy in this article is alarming, not just from the yoga teacher-turned entrepreneur, but from the writer. Looking at vague country wide cancer statistics to test whether certain products cause breast cancer is some of the most non-sensical reasoning imaginable, and does a huge disservice to…

As a side note, that’s wonderful your students respond so well to this book and engage with it so deeply. Must be so thrilling (and a relief) as a teacher.

Nope. Sure some people change their beliefs over time, but I know lots of ageing hippies and liberals, who are as open minded in their retirement and twilight years as they ever were, if not more so. It really doesn’t square up for me that Atticus would so radically change, given how resolute and strong his…

So it’s Jumanji?

Or even, “HELP we’re trapped in this mason jar!”

Right? He can be very funny and cute but there’s a distinct thread of... kinda immature, smug humour there too. I know everyone Tweets something stupid from time to time but all his slip ups had a similar “punching down” flavour, targeting women or fat people, which doesn’t bode well. I dunno, he just seems a bit…