Or they go with Pratt opening the pod but treat it like the psychological horror film that it should have been.

They could’ve made it work if (SPOILERS!) when his character is drunk and talking to the robot bartender he tells the bartender how he wishes Lawrence’s pod could’ve also opened early like his did so he wouldn’t be alone. Then the bartender wanting to make his human customer happy, goes and opens her pod. Pratt’s…

I feel like Jennifer Lawrence is currently experiencing the same backlash that Anne Hathaway experienced. Like, I log on one day and suddenly everyone is so fucking sick of her and she’s so goddamn annoying but I don’t recall anything that would make people feel that way. I mean, she dated an older guy and they did a…

Straight people routinely speak of boyfriends, girlfriends, and spouses. In fact, I think every heterosexual coworker I’ve ever had has “come out” to me on Day #1.

Absolutely! And it sets up future wins for our trans friends, too, because the same logic applies. “A woman* who is subject to an adverse employment action because she is attracted to women identifies as a man* would have been treated differently if she had been a man who was attracted to women identified as a man*,”…

You’re complaining about the sexuality of your skydiving instructor? Aren’t you missing some more important stuff, like how not to die when you jump out of that airplane?

Why ‘fuck this guy’?

If Caitlyn Jenner has proved everything, she has proved that transitioning to your correct gender does not transition you from being an obtuse asshole. It’s much harder to stop being an asshole than it is for some transpeople to become their correct gender.

“You cannot be anti choice and feminist. Period.”

Jesus, this sentence you wrote sums up the problem with policing, especially when the officer and victim are a different race. Just to amplify it:

Yeah, me too. How many other men are also similarly suffering in silence? We need to do away with this stigma that sexual assault is anybody’s fault but that of the perpetrator. Nobody deserves to have their body violated, nobody.

This is the fucked up effect of toxic masculinity. The patriarchy is terrible for men and boys. These guys who are coming forward with their stories give me hope of real change coming.

When Jane, after she turns down his initial proposal, points out that they can’t even discuss the idea of marriage without fighting—”The very name of Love is an apple of discord between us”—his response is so absolutely classic; this is your fault for not seeing the right thing to do! Lucky for you I’m magnanimous…

I completely understand St. John! I suspect most women do, right from the book’s first publication. The self-knowledge that goes this far but no further, the mansplaining, the rigidity that isn’t seen as rigidity but “reasonableness”, the inability to perceive how much space he demands in a woman’s life (let’s learn…

Literal currency, of course, in all the ways you describe, but I was also thinking of social currency in the form of beauty, connections, accomplishments, and charm, all of which, as we see in Austen, could be used to somewhat compensate for lack of monetary fortune. Jane is intelligent, and talented at whatever she…

Currency is a huge theme in the book; money and how deeply it’s needed, and how badly it treats people.

I can’t find it now, but I JUST read a post about this. The girl is saying that guys complain when she won’t pretend to like sports for them. “But what if you’re dating a guy who does, won’t you watch it with him?”

Plus she imagines St. John observing “all the forms of love” and just. can’t. get with it. Bleeech.

I always love the St. John chapters because, while the Rochester/Jane romance is of course central to the book, we are ultimately reading to find out about Jane’s development and her path to finding a home and family.…

Excellent article, though I would make one caveat. IMO, the reason so many readers love Darcy is that he isn’t chiefly attracted to Elizabeth for her looks, but becomes attracted to her and trusts her based on who she is as a person- so it still supports the article’s contention.

I personally, especially as I get older, find the St. John chapters of Jane Eyre fascinating, and St. John himself the personification of “unaware that he’s unaware” privilege, a striking contrast to Big Daddy Rochester; his money, his demands, his prickly personality, his horror show of a marriage and how he dealt…