You cannot reproduce an object that is so completely the product of a zeitgeist without reproducing the zeitgeist itself— which is impossible. Historical context is everything. Leave Heathers’ grave undisturbed.

I wonder if some people are confusing it with Mean Girls (which I don’t think you could remake now either).

Thank you. As someone who loved the original when it came out, I don’t know how anyone thought you could shoehorn any sort of remake into the current environment. It was very much a product of the late-1980s post-Reagan nothing-matters-anymore soil it grew out of. The whole point of it was to subvert the inspirational…

Thank you for this post. It basically sums up how I feel about so much art/culture commentary on jezebel.

But that isn’t what people have been fighting for. Why would we want an environment where marginalized people can only be saints and victims? Isn’t the whole point that people can be complex and deeply flawed and that’s what makes them interesting? I understand where your fervor on this comes from, but I think that in…

This should be posted as the main article.

My very good friend is a former prosecutor. Her experience is that women are absolutely the worse jurors on sex assault trials. Yes, ALL women regardless of color or class.

You can think about ethics when your money situation improves. Sticking to your values won’t put food on your table and you’re not being asked to go on TV and make announcements that would go against your ideals.

Also, I have been told by a few people that Kirchgessner’s current partner was warned about the abuse. 

No!Wire!Hangers!...Honestly, most people didn’t think she would win. She has no experience and lacks the necessary education. Her opponent, Michael Lausell, was accused of being an establishment Democrat and working across party lines. When it became a bad thing to have experience and education and work across party…

It got cancelled by Fox but picked up by NBC. Since it’s a Universal show anyway, it’s going to be cheaper for them to air it as it’s an “in house” production. Plus apparently some of the NBC suits regretted letting the show ever go to Fox in the first place, so pounced at the chance to have it back.

It was rescued by NBC.

NBC picked it up 

I’ve made a few attempts, but it seems pointless. “They eat their own” keeps coming to my mind. It’s disheartening to see how hard we are on each other. We are so angry and fed up that we are lashing out at each other.

This.

Relax, we have been warned about this for weeks that FEMA was testing the Wireless Emergency Alert system. They tested it under Obama they can test it under trump. Breath

1)The area where they are, The Finger Lakes, is very working class and ready for change, and Kirchgessner won the primary handily. This ish really should have been out there BEFORE the primary, so that the other Democrat could have won.

This. You are more eloquent than I.

Read it again. I stated: “ I would like to know if the candidate did indeed get help and turned her life around and corrected her behaviors. If she did do that, I would have to consider giving her that fair shake. Doing so would not dismiss what her wife experienced at that time.”