It can be, but it’s also overused and sometimes completely unnecessary to the overall narrative of the story being told. The same way that the plot device of a man losing a woman love interest to death or capture is.
That's not the Daily Planet building, but we want to believe.
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“For male showrunners, sexual assault is always the go-to when looking for ‘traumatic backstory’ for a female character.”
I have an almost 8 year old. I try to be a good role model for him. We saw Moana last week and he loved it. I told him that it was a girl who was the hero; you need to see more of that. I also played him some records later in the weekend like Joan Jett and X to show him women rock as hard as guys. There’s a women’s…
You can help make it up to us by being a great, hands-on role model to your sons, nephews, and every other young man in your life. It wouldn’t hurt if you became a Big Brother or did other volunteer work with young men. And also, when you hear boys/young men/grown men saying anything inappropriate about women,…
Once I really pissed off this Québécois. We were in Japan at a share house and he was going around asking people if they had ever had “real maple syrup” and giving them tastes of stuff from Quebec. He asked me, and I replied “yeah! Like from Maine!” because I grew up in New England and that is where we get the good…
Well, I can take joy in the pain of people who are regretting their votes because Donald is not building a wall/prosecuting Clinton. I really don’t have a lot of sympathy for those ones.
Newsflash; people who can’t tell they’ve been conned surprised when it turns out they’ve been conned.
as of this very moment, i think president circus peanut intends to fuck at least 64,469,963 of us from the oval office.
Racism is not a mental illness, nor is mental illness an excuse for racism.
Her family, particularly her father, had pressured her to fabricate the story precisely because they were upset by Ramirez coming out as gay. Her father hoped these charges would enable him to win a custody battle.
Literally, let’s put a end cap on this fucking year. Someone please blow this fucking useless rock into the sun.
“I want to destroy you for your own good. Why can’t you see that, you ungrateful little shit that I effectively disowned.”
^This!
KITCHENETTE 4 LYFE.
Anxiety Monster: this woman is not your friend. She is your abuser. It is OK and normal for you to feel love for her, because that is what abusers do; they exploit the good impulses of their victims (that’s you). Otherwise, they wouldn’t have anyone to abuse. You wouldn’t stick around for it.
Obligatory comment petitioning for revival of I Thee Dread.
sounding exactly like someone who has a book to sell.
I really wish that Oprah had never brought Dr.’s Phil & Oz out of the grays.
Ugh this whole thing is such a pile of WTF. If this guy wants a kid so bad, why can’t he just adopt one? Or, if he’s so desperate for a biological one, get a surrogate and an egg donor! There is NO reason for him to be doing this other than to be an insufferable, controlling asshole.