I think the consensus is “it’s very complicated, and a case-by-case sort of thing”.

White girls are totally irrelevant to this conversation; that’s what we are. And that’s okay.

Black girls.

Sufficiently represented and venerated in popular culture at the current time.

Privileged?

Still convinced they’re the famous Dear Prudie incest twins:

I can’t look at their faces directly. Like I have to force myself to look at them from the corner of my eye. It’s almost like there’s something off-center about their faces? Like something’s slightly askew and when you stare at them directly you feel slightly off center?

“protest is the new brunch”

Sometimes when I see ridiculous commercials, I try to imagine what that pitch meeting must have been like, and I feel like the phrase “protest is the new brunch” was uttered in this one.

NO. STOP. IT’S TERRIBLE. It’s been airing here for a few weeks, and it is NOT good at all because:

Anyone reading over my shoulder would think I’m a monster.

Miss Fisher fuckin rules! It’s the only historical show I’ve seen where the heroine samples cocaine, takes home a different hunk of hot manflesh every episode, & traps a poisonous spider under her diaphragm case. (Also, different fabulous outfits for every scene. ^^)

This is pretty particular and I totally understand if it’s not your bag, but Amazon has like 18 seasons of Survivor available to stream and I recently went down an insane (but fun!) rabbit hole of tribal councils.

Fellow Murderino! My parents did not at all limit my tv/movie watching... I think it just made me a savvier person. For example, I was reading in the news about a woman who had been held at gunpoint and nearly killed after getting home from work to find her front door off its hinges. Honestly, would you or I enter our…

OMG I’m OBSESSED with the My Favorite Murder podcast. I only discovered it like a month ago.

I second Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries!

Sometimes I wonder what the everloving FUCK my parents were thinking letting me watch shows like Unsolved Mystery and Rescue 911. Hello, anxiety. I also recall a Lifetime movie where a victim of domestic violence (played by Jo from Facts of Life) gets stabbed/her neck stomped on by her psychotic ex. I think that’s why…

Agreed. I think this was partly due to the decision to move the setting from Australia to California. Madeline and Ed and Nathan and Bonnie are all still pretty priveleged in the book, but the do have actual money pressures and concerns (i.e. when Abigail goes to live with Nathan and he asks Madeline for child support…

I agree, but I’m also a big fan of teamwork. I’m thinking the larger shower will help facilitate this.

Ridiculously wasteful of water???