that is so porny gross

Don't drink the water. Don't even touch it. Not one drop.

But in all of America's most successful groups, people tend to feel insecure, inadequate, that they have to prove themselves.

Oh for fuck's sake, this isn't even worth the time to explain to you, but let's try anyway, shall we? You're determined to put me in a box before even recognizing the problem with everything you're saying is fantastically cruel in its oversimplicity.

Christ, fucking law professors. What a sweet gig. Nowhere else could you get a tenured, fancy named professorship at Yale while also producing this sort of vapid, racist, penny-ante "cultural criticism." (ok, that's not true, but still, these two are hacks).

who approved these adoptions?? so many children, so frequently adopted. Two children (Tam and Isaiah) were adopted ONE MONTH after the Woody/Soon-Yi scandal broke?! wouldn't someone approving the adoption think "maybe this isn't the best time to place not one but two vulnerable children with special care needs into…

Yeah, how is this line a throwaway? That seems like a *rather* important event.

As for the "they never lived together" question, they kept separate apartments blocks away from each other. If I was a woman with 9 children (at the time I think) I would BEG my boyfriend to keep his apartment, if for no other reason than to have a place for us to go where there were not 9 children. (My ex and I were…

As for the Woody/SoonYi thing, Woody was a father figure for 12 years, and a father to the children who were not Previns. SoonYi was adopted at age 8 (or 6) and Woody came into their life 2 years later. She was his girlfriend's child, and she had learning disabilities and developmental delays. I know what this is…

"visitation was suspended after Woody was said to have put both his hands around Ronan's neck in front of the supervising psychiatrist"

done.

Stabbing is a different matter.

Remember, it was once okay if not encouraged to say gay people could become straight, and if they wished to avoid oppression they should deny their sexual orientation.

But here's the thing: they were.

It sucks to be obese on an emotional level, sure.

How is it doing good? Yo-yo dieting, which is what this show encourages is bad for your heart and it can screw up the metabolism. Yes, obesity carries health risks, but that doesn't mean it's good for your health to take extreme measures to lose weight fast. You should only lose a 2 pounds a week. That's a number…

Just because a chemical found in an edible thing that but also found in another inedible thing that doesn't mean we should freak out. Everything is chemicals. The amounts and how they are combined determine the freak out level you should apply to it. Science, it's your friend.

Tying this all together, 'Night Mother was written by Marsha Norman, who also wrote the libretto for the musical of The Color Purple (really under appreciated playwright, I think; her Getting Out is fantastic and I'm also a huge fan of the Secret Garden musical she wrote).

Why is Kate Winslet always so heart-stopping, why oh why. It's not just the face. It's in the eyes. It must be the eyes. The way she stares the camera down. She's amazing.

I love how much they just look like people. Attractive people, yes, but people, not inhuman magical god-beings made of poreless, plastic sexiness.