While I agree that feminism, due to historical context, is more complicated than wanting equal rights for women, I think that Emma seems pretty intelligent and likely is aware that there is more to feminism than just believing in equality. The problem is that she has an audience where a large number of people cannot…

There's always going to be that type of ignorant person. I'm just kind of hoping things like winning a Darwin Award will thin 'em out.

It is insane how raised my hackles get when I think an outsider is talking shit about the South, and how they relax when I realize it's a fellow Southerner. Like, I don't even live in the US anymore, and I will still fight somebody who advances an unnuanced view of the South - but at the same time, I will regale…

Why bother with it? Because it's fun. And because changing the way you look depending on the time or day or season or decade can be a great way to express creativity, in the same way that getting a different haircut or changing clothes can make life less boring. And because emphasizing or de-emphasizing certain…

Hey, it's cool! I get annoyed too. Obama visited our town today and it was fascinating to watch the comments on local news. Bless their simple, simple little hearts.

I live in the South. I generally read a lot of local news, and THAT is where I find my racists whose hearts I like to bless. I find it particularly helpful locally because the saying is never misinterpreted by Southerners (in the context of local news comments) to mean anything other than "Fuck you, you ignorant…

I was talking with my BIL over the holidays and he works with at risk gay youths in Boston. We were duscussing racism in relation to the North vs. South argument. I've encountered far more racist individuals here in the North. One of his colleagues put it best (paraphrased). In the South you know where you stand,…

I mean, make no mistake, many Southern women have LONG been perfectly capable of saying "Fuck you" when the situation demanded it.

GAWD, thanks for this. I'm SO TIRED of hearing people, ever since this became "a thing" deploy a dear colloquial phase and say, "That's the southern way to say 'fuck you!'"

"Bless your heart" is the best phrase ever because it can mean literally anything you want it to. Plus, you can piss off a racist Southerner SO QUICKLY if you bless their hearts in response to whatever racism they've decided to spout off. It reduces them to the level of a child, it's fantastic.

"In actual fact, breast-reduced Power Girl and Crack-Ho Emma Frost and Middle-Age Spread Seven-of-Nine are negative commentaries on how these [okay, fictional, right?] women look. Not how they dress. Not how they act. How they LOOK."

It is a negative commentary on how they look, but the commentary is that they look the…

"From this am I to gather that females would prefer that female characters be made less sexually attractive? Practicality in design is laudable. Making attractive characters less attractive for no discernible reason is less laudable."

I think making characters less attractive is laudable. Would Jonah Hex be a better…

I know, but this is CINDERELLA, not some period drama that needs to be historically accurate.

Starred for Ever After.

It's not the diet itself that I find so troubling (I am a big soup fan myself) but rather the fact that they felt that they had to tightlace this already slender girl for a goddamn kid's movie. There is no reason to make that waist of that dress so incredibly, exaggeratedly tiny. It's shitty.

I read a book about marketing to children, and in it they referenced studies about how kids find Cinderella to be the most "aspirational", and she is specifically marketed now only in princess form. You never see good hearted, put upon Cinder Cat, only flashy, corseted, Cinderella.

An aside: I thought that was Catherine Keener at first glance! She looks terrific.

You have an amazing husband. Does he have a handsome single brother? Lol. You story is so moving. Unfortunately a few years back in 2007 I became seriously ill & after lots of frightening tests & a cancer scare (thank god I don't have colon cancer)...I finally got a diagnosis of ulcerative colitis. I was in a lot of…

When I was suddenly given a cancer diagnosis, we were stunned. But, I later found out from my mother that he called and told her that she didn't need to worry. He was not ever leaving me and that he would take care of her only child no matter what.