Ex Machina was the Bluebeard story on film, though no one seemed to notice.

Uh, Indonesian Hinduism is not less authentic than Indian Hinduism... Sanskrit is a language not a people. If J.K.R. was inspired by Indonesian mythology, she doesn’t have to go back to the Indian myth to legitimate her interpretation. Indian people are not the only authoritative representation of Hinduism. Amish…

I have complex feelings that I can’t quite articulate tied to colonialism and negative stereotypes around deities from Asia.

Am I the only one who’s kinda here for this? Like, as a single 29 year old, looking in at the outside at like everybody coupling off, there’s this cultural expectation that friendship doesn’t count on the same level. Fuck that. Marrying your bestie should be a thing. That bond counts.

Pretty sure if he knew me, even a little, I’d be his favorite Jew, Hannah. Which reminds me, why can I ostensibly be written in the Book of Life, but can’t get out of the grays after nine years on this lovely site?

Anybody who routinely sleeps naked doesn’t own two cats that routinely pounce on them at night. Reeking of herring would not help matters.

Why do we have to forgive men who hurt women (and others)? I don’t agree that we do. I think we (as a society) need to hold them accountable and need to support them to a) be better and b) not have power over others. But forgiveness is 100% off the table for me. No one deserves forgiveness, especially those who are…

No, I wasn’t disappointed that he didn’t provide an explanation of Area X. I don’t think he owes the reader that information and it’s unimportant. I’m totally okay with ambiguity in fictional universes. What’s more important is how the characters in the story come to terms with the new or unexplainable. He didn’t…

I suggested this elsewhere but when you start the series, make a count of Vandermeer’s pet words and how long he goes between using them. It’s a fun way to distract yourself from realizing you just committed yourself to reading three garbage books.

I initially wanted to reconcile with my wife after she had an affair, so I’ll try to answer the ‘why’ in your comment.

:) My nerd flag is flying HIGH on this thread!

Jane’s response to letter #1 is getting a lot of hate, I think unjustly. The sad fact is that what this woman is going through is far from uncommon, and most women in this situation stay, even if they can’t forgive their husband’s infidelity/abuse/whatever. It’s a moral compromise they make in order to preserve their…

I found out my ex was cheating when I was 8 months pregnant. I locked down emotionally and decided I could stick it out for two years, instead of taking my toddler and soon-to-be-newborn and trying to manage on my own. I was a SAHM so I frankly needed that financial security.

Not being an American, maybe I’m missing some lack of nuance in this Tina Fey piece? I thought it was pretty clear satire and that she was not actually advocating sticking your head in the cake sand. Is my non-American inability to understand un-ironic humour causing me to miss the lack of point? Did the joke fly…

No no no we can’t explore the lives of women with lots of responsibility and power and how they juggle that with their personal desires. That is BOOORING! Give me some immature misbehaved entitled Real Houseviwes of the 60s please! I am not at all bored of all the TV shows and movies about the jet-set, not at all..

I married my husband because he looks like Ewan McGregor’s younger brother. I even get him to talk to me in a Scottish accent when I can’t reach orgasm.

“We would never tell mom implicitly when to start,” he said.

The last medical statement I got was for $500 for one procedure. As long as I don’t need any other medical care for the next two years, his analogy totally works.

Hey Afrikaner, Apartheid Much? That is your ID isn’t it? Should we impute something from that? Would that be a distraction from your comment? A comment that one, with no other context than your ID, might assume is a distraction/diversion from the central point of this article: a US citizen was shot simply because he…

A legit female rap beef of this stature makes me think gender equality is possible.