I know for me growing up it was more insidious. Like, it wouldn't happen all the time but little comments or looks when I mentioned I liked the X-Men cartoon or just telling me I'm not wanted when they're looking at comics. It still does happen, although masculine things are still seen as more acceptable for girls…

I can't figure out if pins is a British euphemism for something or if it's just like hairpins.

Well, her husband's funeral was also HER funeral, but yeah to the rest of it.

I mean that's great that your daughter doesn't deal with that ... but that doesn't mean it still doesn't happen. I don't have kids, but I've talked to nerdy parents who have had their daughters go through some nasty bullying because of the things they like. It does still happen.

You know, it was around Goblet of Fire when Harry started dealing with the wizard newspapers being nasty and discrediting him, twisting quotes for their own purpose so they could use his story to sell more copies no matter whether it was the truth or not ... I'm sure that has NOTHING to do with how the media started…

Although I'm sure the boys would be telling Juliet that she shouldn't like superheroes and who knows if the adults would chastise them for bullying her. But yeah, the adults wouldn't give a rat's ass if a girl wanted to wear boy things more or less.

Not surprising, but definitely disappointing. Does it really hurt other kids for a playmate to dress the way he wants? Is it really hurting anyone? Isn't telling the boy he's wrong for liking personally healthy things hurting him more than he could be hurting anyone else just by dressing how he'd like?

It sounds better than it is ... mostly because it's played serious. Granted it's an Elseworlds story so you get a little leeway with it being ridiculous, but it's a bad comic.

The movie franchise is loosely based on The Amazing Spider-Man series and pulls from several canons. They didn't NEED to kill her off. They chose to and I am totally within my right to criticize them killing off a female character to give the main character man pain. You don't have to agree with me, but complaining…

Oh oh, AND the storyline where Jason Todd becomes a giant blob monster and starts consuming people. And that was in the regular canon!

.... Because sometimes comic book stories suck. I mean, there's a comic where Superman has a santa beard in the apocalyptic future and carries a machine gun that he shoots at clones of Hitler. There's a comic where Batman smacks Dick Grayson in the face after driving him away from his parents' murder and later…

Yeah, but the people writing the copy for the magazines/entertainment websites that fixate on her looks aren't doing it because THEY feel that way about themselves ... they're doing it so they can manipulate their readers into feeling worse. And then feed the insecurity that actresses feel about their own bodies that…

I said the same thing. It's 2014 and I don't care if it's "iconic," women in refrigerators is one of the laziest story choices you can do. And yes, they got rid of one of the true strengths of that franchise, both as a character and the relationship. So lame.

Yeah, I read lovely as "delightful."

Demisexuals are REALLY into French sauces.

For a lot of people, having that "identity" means defining what they were told growing up was just "broken." Not saying you HAVE to come up with exactly what you are (I made a comment on here mentioning that while I am cis, I'm still trying to figure out my sexuality itself and haven't found a good definition that…

This is why I've had trouble (just this week, even, since I was actively pondering this on Monday night) defining my space on the sexual spectrum. For the past year I've leaned towards bisexual with slightly more sexual attraction to men without needing an emotional connection for that desire. However, as far as…

But even then the actual Republicans representing the GOP are so pro-corporations that I can't imagine anyone who actually looks at their politics think that they're for the little guy. Or girl.

Anyone else imagining a Sister Act 3 where Whoopi Goldberg travels to the Vatican and brings them into the 21st Century with the power of soul music?

You know, every once in a while the past few years I would think about her and how she still exists. Like, she's a person who still gets groceries and does work and lives. I don't know, I do feel bad for her because of the shitstorm that surrounded her at a time when the paparazzi were just starting to become the…