I didn’t get a good look at the orphanage photo. I thought it was a photo of Sister Alice as a child in an orphanage, indicating that her mother adopted her from there. (The photo was with some personal Sister Alice memorabilia, which may be why I thought that.) But my husband didn’t make that connection and thought…

There was a failed 1920's real estate subdivision named Girard in the location briefly shown on Perry’s map. See https://la.curbed.com/2014/4/16/10115040/how-a-visionary-scoundrel-created-woodland-hills-in-the-1920s

Nobody in my high school read it, but I picked it off my grandparents bookcase when I was 11 and read it... as well as Sybil, and The Happy Hooker. 

This was me except I was obsessed with Jack Kerouac.  At 16 I thought he was a misunderstood genius.  Now I just see him as a jobless drunk and deadbeat dad who lived with his mother.

The “story” in this is kind of a mess in general and I just couldn’t get past the thought of why does this exist. It’s like:

perry busting out the n-word was pretty jarring considering our current point in history, but what was interesting was that he used it to provoke paul into giving him what he wanted and paul, although clearly angry about the whole situation, wasn’t gonna let perry get to him that easily. his response was great.

As a sidenote, as the comparison is inevitable, while this show has its flaws, it is astonishing how it does everything better than Penny Dreadful did. Starting from the seemingly baffling assumption that if you start your show with a horrific ritualistic murder, maybe that should then be the focus of your show and…

Can we just put a cork in this “is not my Perry Mason”. I think this is an audacious and stunningly well mounted take on a literary character and not not the dismissive “gritty reboot” so many are claiming. Further I think this is leading up to a courtroom drama while at the same time immersing viewers in a time and…

Because far more women (and men) have been abused than the overall public realize, and while subs are acting out rape/abuse they’ve endured, doms are manipulative pieces of shit who are acting out rape fantasy’s.
This is truly the most manipulative movement, and subs should be forewarned that the number of abuse and…

He said in his (very positive) “Fresh Air” review that, in the last episode, he meets Eva Belter, who’s the client in “The Case of the Velvet Claws,” the first book in the series. Whether he meets her socially or as a lawyer, he did not say.

Not a huge fan of this particular gimmick. We lose our appearance of moral high ground by intentionally misgendering someone we disagree with, even if they are a terrible person who seeks our destruction. It also creates a dynamic where it is “ok” to use bigoted practices (misgendering, fat-shaming, misogyny, racism,…

I feel like it was pretty clear that Ellen’s question was rhetorical...

I once had one of *those* people send me a friend request. I hesitantly accepted and she immediately send me a very genuine message apologizing for all of the horrible things she did and said in high school. She said she was committed to being a better and more caring person and felt I was overdue an apology.

In the…

I do think people can change. I’ve seen it in so many people who were dicks in junior high and high school and they grew up into great human beings. I don’t understand the resentfulness or intransigence of some people here who assume people are the same at 35 that they were at 16. However, if they were total assholes…

So people can never improve, and if they try they should be slapped down?

Lotta racist stuff against black women is about hair, especially that their hair isn’t “real”. I imagine she was going for that angle.

My soon-to-be four year old is currently obsessed with finding surfaces to rest his balls on. We’re a loooong way from consulting with him on any major life decisions.

May all of their bio children grow up to be radical queer atheists.

What sucks about this moment is that this *could* have been an opportunity to talk about the real issue of people with adoption regret, or adoption... idk fatigue, in which they are faced with raising a special needs child in addition to the stresses of adoption, let alone transracial adoption. But it can’t be, ‘cause…

If nuance is a concern, shouldn’t we be using the phone app on our smartphones?