I’ve only ever dated men “publicly” (like, social media official, met all my friends and family), but that doesn’t erase all the women I’ve had sex with. The numbers game for bisexual people tends to favour straight couplings, as there are just so many more potential matches.

It seems odd to use Black Swan as an example of mainstream media co-opting ballet without acknowledging the darker side, when the film is entirely about that darker side. She’s sexually abused, suffers an eating disorder, endures self-harm and dancing injuries, and ultimately dies - how much darker could it get?

My cousin had one of those twirling fairy dolls that flew up and smacked kids in the face!

But Megan Fox never presented that ‘cool girl’ persona - as this very article points out, she repeatedly criticized the men around her. And was punished for it. In this 2009 interview she literally said, “I’m so suspicious of all boys-slash-men. I just don’t like them or trust them” - the opposite of the Cool Girl.

By reputation at least, Whedon has always played favourites and had actors he lavished praise upon, and then ones he froze out over some perceived slight. So he love love loved Alison Hannigan and Alexis Denisof and Eliza Dushku, but treated Charisma Carpenter and Sarah Michelle Gellar like set dressing, and the…

I think you’re confused, Lean In is Sheryl Sandberg’s thing.

What the fuck was this show? I cannot imagine Michelle Obama saying this - and since it was written without her involvement, she certainly didn’t - and Davis looks like she’s doing a racist SNL sketch.

All of this! It also plays into the frustrating queer-baiting thing where media has always loved to show characters pining for each other, straight and gay, but gay characters get the worst of it because any physical affection is seen as a shocking taboo. So it’s used as titillation (a single kiss treated like it’s a…

I think they’re confusing it with Torchwood, where Ianto died telling Jack he loved him ( a pretty classic staple of the trope). It’s an easy mix-up, Torchwood was a spin-off which shared characters, after all.

Byzantine seems a fair word to me, it must be incredibly complicated to be simultaneously trying to hire talent and navigate schedules while fundraising to make the project actually happen. You’re trying to hire someone, but you don’t have any ability to actually pay them yet or confirm that the project will even…

Depending on his process, it might serve as persuasive evidence - a lot of songs sound very different in the demo stages, and if you can prove that a song didn’t sound like the one it’s accused of ripping off until a tempo change or something then that’s a pretty strong case. Convergent evolution is a thing.

Australia doesn’t have “particularly crap single-payer” either - I don’t know where the commenter above lives specifically, but here in NSW a Mirena IUD is $40, or $7 if you have a low income card (subsidised by Medicare) and my ten-year copper IUD was about $200 (not subsidised, but still pretty good for a decade of…

Why is this written like it’s E News? Jezebel’s snarky-but-intelligent voice is the strongest part of the brand, this piece is weird and generic. And no mention of all the questionable sponcon some of these women have used social media for in the past? They liked social media when it was making them a buck, and that’s…

Definitely too soon, remaking them now would only do more damage to the brand. It would be an Amazing Spider Man situation, where the movies might make money, but would erode interest in the characters and make them kind of a joke.

Eddie Redmayne spoke out against Rowling too, and he’s still there, though obviously he’d be a little harder to write out.

Ok this DDL story is confusing - I’ve worked on a set, and you can’t have tripping hazards everywhere like that. It’s a workplace safety violation, and the union would riot. Even if standards were different then, why couldn’t they just make clearways for his wheelchair to get through, why carry him?

Ha, the first season of Bridgerton had several of those! And there was no good reason not to have more of them in the second one.

When you have a record contract it’s not that simple though - if she has a deal, then she can make whatever music she likes... but then they can remix it, repackage it, refuse to ever release it, release it before she feels it’s finished, etc. And she’s probably legally obligated to do promotion.

The joker isn’t supposed to be wearing makeup though, that’s meant to be just his skin. Same as Harley, the chemical bath gave them white skin and Suicide Girl makeup, and if you’re embarrassed by the basic traits of those characters, you shouldn’t be making a Batman movie.

I don’t even understand how she could sign over the rights to another man’s life story. Why does she have any ownership over events that happened to someone else?