It’s been fun watching this debate. People complain about Barbie so they make some representing some of the greatest women of history. They then complain about the Frida doll.

Hey RitS,

A few other people have said this, but if your significant other’s reaction to “can we not consider other birth control methods (apart from withdrawal, which is not dependable) if you’re uncomfortable with latex condoms” is, “well, we can just never have sex again,” you need to get gone.

Like, yesterday.

There…

I suspect either the staff ungreys some trolls to keep the commenters engaged and on their toes, or they themselves have troll accounts to accomplish the same goal.

Remember Sanjaya? This is basically Sanjaya. People need to lighten the fuck up. There are nazis murdering people in the streets, people enjoying being fascinated by a weirdo does not register as an actual problem

Yeah hmm. As with many cases. It’s not the message she’s saying, it’s the meta-message.

I got to that part of the letter and it was like in movie trailers where the record scratches and the tone changes.

Yup. Dr. Nerdlove humoring the letter writer by focusing on the “protection” part rather than recognizing his sexual partner is emotionally abusive is concerning.

Fuckin-A.

My immediate thought was just get a vasectomy without telling her, relish in all the fleshy, bare sex you want, and then reverse it later.

Reading the new details of the situation around the Till case, it seems like her husband and brother in law may have just killed Till for fun, then made the wife lie to police to provide some sort of justification.

I brought this up to her and her solution is “we can just not have sex ever again.”

Doc, how come in your letter to the first writer you didn’t acknowledge the totally not cool all-or-nothing ultimatum by his lady friend? I’d say the fact that she’s withholding sex because LW1 doesn’t want to take unnecessary risks with his health and wellbeing is a pretty huge red flag.

The Grosvenor family, who controlled NGS for decades, were notoriously hard-right. As an example, the National Geographic Society’s employee cafeteria was gender-segregated until the 1990s.

There are very few static or set up shots and the camera is always moving so that when it’s edited together there’s a continuation of movement across frames. I feel she was doing this to convey the emotional states of the characters during those scenes, and it’s a radically different type of film-watching than I…

I mean, is getting invited by random websites to make silly youtube videos really going “upward” ?

I watched it this weekend, and I will agree that it is a mixed bag, but will also reiterate that this film needs both a suspension of disbelief and a suspension of cynicism to appreciate. DuVernay’s camerwork is also a bit challenging but after a few minutes I started to get a feel for what she was doing and it’s…

Yea, after not really digging the vibe from the commercials (it all seems too bright and cartoony for me) I don’t think I’m going to see it. I still want to support it, though, so I donated the cost of a couple tickets to a group that was buying out the theater for a local girl’s group.

I loved this movie so much. I enjoyed the book as a girl, and it worked for me on that level. More than anything, though, it felt like a love letter to my 13-year-old self: another biracial girl with a Black mom and an absent dad, who hated her hair and glasses and thought she would never be good enough. It was so, so…

One similarity = exactly the same.