Hell yes. “Ripper” and a tweedy librarian? ROWR.

Fact is that both Nicholas and his brother have a lengthy (and fairly gruesome) history as repeated victims of childhood abuse, too. (Their childhood abuse being another one of those “open secret” type deals out on Hollywood, I’m informed.) This is in NO WAY even REMOTELY offered as “mitigation” for fucked-up…

The NFL doesn’t play minors. That doesn’t stop parents from slapping a set of pads onto their 5 year-old before dropping them off at football camp for the day.

Yessss! Please let this be the beginning of a flourishing subgenre of 80s/90s figure skating biopics. Suggested other topics:

Because in this instance, the monster is the system. How many girls did the doctor assault, over how many years? That is a fair indication of how the system polices itself.

I give her credit through, she has owned that photo.

The way she was treated for that made me so mad. People who lose control because they don’t get the parking spot they want were mocking a child for expressing emotion when her dreams were crushed.

Victims of these crimes in the workplace, or anywhere they occur, are not obliged to look inward and examine their commitment to feminism in order to combat them. Not conforming to conventional, commercial standards of beauty, or having healthy self-esteem, doesn’t protect one from sexual violence any more than being…

Also, don’t forget how much crap she got for not being adequately cheerful at winning silver in London. Imagine all the abuse she took, putting her body on the line, always made to think she’s not good enough unless she won gold, and suddenly she has to put up an appearance of being happy after coming short?

While I think it’s possible to divorce training elite athletes from sexual abuse, I don’t know that, in a world where China and Russia go to the lengths they go to in order to compete, you will ever be able to get away from coaches who don’t treat their athletes as cattle to some extent.

Agreed. He’s a total NiceGuy™ and seemed to be a creator insert for Joss. Given what we’ve been learning over the years about Joss, this hasn’t improved my opinion of Xander. He has good moments, but they are vastly outweighed by the bad.

Ehhh, I always had a thing for Giles.

Anya was way too good for him.

Are you on Season 4? Because it’s so good, really knocked it out of the park this year. Its the only thing on currently I’m actually excited to watch, apart from maybe still Game of Thrones despite it’s weak season/gradually diminishing ability to make up for all the horrible shit on screen.

“Agents of SHIELD” is my favorite Mutant Enemy / Whedonverse series now. A large, racially diverse cast featuring multiple complex women, briskly paced storylines, a tone that’s badass and funny and heartfelt. And the obvious male audience stand-in niceguy characters (smart but socially awkward white guy in jealous…

I rewatched Buffy not too long ago and Xander really is the worst.

Catching up on Agents of Shield.

Xander is amazing, Nicholas Brendon is a piece of shit though.  

He has been getting arrested for nearly a decade. I’m sure things were going on behind closed doors for years before that. I wonder if his twin is awful too.

Essential dinosaur oils, that is some ancient healing!