NEVER BEEN KISSED, YES!

Sweet Home Alabama is soooo good.  I love it.

You’ve Got Mail is a VERY good rom com.

My boyfriend decided, after watching the Olympia Dukakis/John Mahoney dinner scene that he would rather watch a movie about them instead of this Nic Cage nonsense.  He also can’t get past the Cage.  It’s an acquired taste!

These are all good choice. Who can argue with Tom Hanks, Drew Barrymore or Reese Witherspoon? 

(I mean I am def hot for teacher if that teacher is Michael Vartan.  Also Never Been Kissed is hilarious and the prom scene is memorable.)

Oh man! French Kiss, Overboard, MOONSTRUCK (!!!), Valley Girl (sorry young Nic Cage is hilarious and I love 90s Meg Ryan so much) When Harry Met Sally (MEG!!!), Four Weddings and a Funeral....

‘You’ve Got Mail’ and “Sweet Home Alabama’ are my clubhouse leaders too, with some ‘Silver Linings Playbook.’

Bringing up Baby with Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant. 

What’s everyone’s favorite rom-com? How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and 13 Going on 30 come to mind for me, but there are so many others.

Right? I have a collection of books about people like Rosa Parks, Amelia Earheart, Martin Luther King Jr., etc. that I read to my 5-year-old. We’ve had some spectacular conversations about race and gender issues, but at 5-year-old level. This kid can’t sleep when she thinks her stuffed bunny might be lost and alone,…

If they were talking about how more girls need to be the protagonist in “Bobby Goes to School!” type books I might be on board here. But, as you mentioned, these are kids books about real people, of course they are going to be about extraordinary adults, men and women, and gloss over the age-inappropriate parts of…

So this is what a blog post looks like when you run out of 1st world problems to complain about.

Thank you. Personally, I *celebrate* societal advances like finally seeing good representation of active, courageous women in children’s literature. I don’t even have kids, but somehow, even I know that children’s books don’t have to include rape, torture and murder to win some kind of imaginary Wokeness Award.

This! I grew up reading everything I could get my hands on and the books I loved the most were the ones with boys as protagonists, not because they were boys but because they were having the kinds of adventures I wanted to have. I had no use for Little Women or Jane Eyre or Little House on the Prairie, not because…

I really do not understand what the problem Jez and Slate is trying to stir up about these books is. Boys have always had role models and icons who they were told made history. It is about time that girls get to understand that they can make history, too, and that they have always made history but it was hidden.

Because some people just want to complain.

It’s an enormously stupid thing for a first lady to wear any time, anywhere. Period. It’s for fucking petulant teenagers.

Jesus H. Goddamn Christ. Enough.

The format privileges the successful and the extraordinary, popping them out of their context and any social movements or communities of activism or mutual aid that sustained their work. Telling stories for children also tends to file away rough edges, and there’s also the matter of who gets included, which is rarely…