1. Wuthering Heights was a serious novel about the darkness of the human soul until it came out that the writer was a women and then it suddenly got reclassified as a romance.

 My cousin had to invent a fake girlfriend at his job because his coworkers just couldn’t accept that he was happily monogamous with his wife.   

I’d argue that Gaston’s sexism a feature of his immaturity, so it’s not really one or the other. He treats the courtesans like toys to be picked up and discarded at will. He mocks their emotionality and talks up how a rational, cool person like him doesn’t act so ridiculously over something as silly and…

The catch is making it less creepy means reducing the inherent power disparity between them, so having such a stark class difference would go against that. How about he comes from a rich family, and his dad is just waiting for him to join the business. And then a big part of his arrested development is going through…

I think Seven Brides has worse characters in Adam and his brothers, but a better world in that Milly rips them a new one for what they did and kicks them out to the barn with the rest of the animals. Then when the men from town come to get them in the spring, the girls have all the power over whether to stay with…

I was trying think of a way in my head but nothing really worked. Lessen the age gap and have them separated for a couple years so you can infer a progression into adulthood for Gigi rather than just being in children’s clothes one day and adult ones the next? You’re still stuck with the regressive sexual politics of…

Eh, knowing exactly what it wants to be hasn’t been an issue Netflix’s adult animation. The problem is it mostly wants to be Ninja Scroll.

I have similar feeling about Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. In the problematic fav sense, not so much the personal theme song. Doubt I’m going to have plans to kidnap any sobbing women when I’m 50.

Thematically there isn’t really any leering male horniness in it. On a subtextual level, Gaston is just as much of a child as Gigi, which is why he enjoys her company so much and is upset when he’s forced to ackowledge that she’s an adult. He’s angry again when takes her as his mistress because he realizes that,…

You left out the part where they make fun of a womans’ attempted suicide. That movie is fucking insane, but I did kind of like the underlying message that Gaston is the real child in all this which is why he’s so pouty about having to treat Gigi like a grown woman.  

A lot of people are more fluid in their sexuality that our culture tends to allow for, especially in previous decades. There’s also a concept of political lesbianism, where women who are really more bisexual/fluid (maybe even straight in really extreme cases) are so turned off by dealing the inherent sexism that comes…

I think college humor did that as a bit, with employees in the office asking if they could marry a bunch of people at once or if they stole a car during the purge, did they have to register it afterwords. There was another one where one guys purge was just being an asshole instead of breaking any actual laws, and…

Because he identifies as being exclusively into women, which for a man means he’s straight you fucking bigot. And please don’t come back with some assertion that you’re not. You’re going through intense lengths to exclude trans women as women because YOU don’t like the idea of a woman having a penis, and that other…

Wrong direction. It’s a euphemism for vomiting which grew into the more metaphorical telling everything you know.

They ain’t exactly Fairport Convention or the Pogues, are they? How much of the modern British folk scene is doing the American folk sound anyway? 

Not really. Saying it’s about women who change to fit men’s desires instead of being themselves is framing it as a problem with women, when the monologue is pretty explicitly about a problem with men- wanting an uncomplicated fantasy rather than a real person. Cool Girl isn’t into guy things (though it’s possible dumb…

Nah, I’d rather have to put a new roof on than redo the entire electrical or HVAC systems. I’d add termites and flood damage to the “just walk away” list. Structural damage that’s going to be hard to know the full extent of without gutting the house is a big no.

I will never tire of internet grandpas talking about the degeneracy of some internet thing which they know all about through some curated exposure garunteed to be totally real and not a collection of troll posts deliberately crafted to outrage people for attention.

Hasn’t VS’s most profitable line for years been PINK, the comfy lounge wear marketed directly towards young women? If they go under, I hope there’s some massive, dishy exposé where some execs were desperately trying to get the others to see the writing on the wall, but the ceo just kept going on about how men dont…

If there’s something you do that you normally put the tv on during then podcasts will also work. I had a day off today, so I skipped my meds and spent it playing video games with a bad movie podcast going.