This. "Looking sexy" (or beautiful, or pretty, or hot, or however you want to describe it) is still the most straightforward and "easy" way to achieve validation for young women who are lucky enough to not be too overtly conventionally unattractive. How can we blame them for internalising the messages all around them…

I know. I literally flinched back from the screen.

Ha!

Little girls, like most people, want to feel like they are seen, validated and valued. And if you're female and don't fall too far outside the box of conventional appearance, pleasing the straight male gaze - ie being "sexy" - is the most obvious and straightforward path to being seen and validated because our culture…

I misread the title as "I'm suddenly much LESS interested" and was all "What the fuck is wrong with you? This is amazing and smart!" But then I read it properly. Google isn't helping but aside from the Facebook thing has there ever been an Assassin's Creed ARG? Because if there's a current franchise crying out for it…

Just wanted to say thank you. I have recently fallen for the Outlander series, hard. I googled this and had the most entertaining lunch break ever.

Judging from the internet, I think it's safe to say you are far from the only Silent Hill fan who's over the over-representation of Pyramid Head in all things Silent Hill. I really like the first Silent Hill film, but thought it was a pity they didn't have anything explaining Pyramid's existence in the film universe,…

Eh. This was by no means the best thing evar but I'm still going to give this movie a chance when it comes out. Even though it's 3D, which is a trend I really hoped would be over by now.

Oh dear god. This totally made me flash back to the last office I worked at, where there was a second ladies bathroom that was further away and didn't get as much traffic, informally referred to as the "Poo-N-Purge Bathroom", because that's where the women on our floor could go to perform either of those activities,…

I remember feeling very distinctly disappointed when I read something by author Lionel Shriver, where she said she didn't consider herself a feminist because "I don't like the connotation of humorlesness the label entails".

I read the books via audio book. The accent that the actress doing the reading put on for Wiress and Beetee in Catching Fire was very... well to be blunt it sounded like she'd been directed to "sound Asian". That plus the ashen skin and dark hair and eyes stuff took me to Google and I discovered that there's a fan…

S0 not alone on this one. I ended up backlashing against the Tara hate and she became my favourite character.

It's all right. At the end of it I did have a bit of a "Okay, so now I've seen another meandering artsy film with sinister-thriller undertones about an ethereal-looking white girl's adventures in the high end of the sex industry" feeling, but it's an all right film.

Yes, I like this casting decision. And I've been saying this forever but MICHAEL EMERSON (aka Benjamin Linus from 'Lost') should so be Beetee. If he was interested at any point I hope his agent campaigned hard.

Okay, now Michael Emerson for Beetee, kthnxbai.

Exactly. I seriously side-eyed at the trailer and the way the producer talked about it and really don't think that threat of sexual violence need be an integral part of the development of Lara Croft as a strong and empathic character (and that whole "so the player feels an urge to protect her" thing was just... no).…

No.8 reminded me of the time I saw an audition notice for a community theater production of 'The Joy Luck Club' that said "You do NOT have to be Asian to audition!"

Exactly, and this is why I react so viscerally when I hear people talking about "Oh Girls These Days act like such sluts, they have no self respect" blah blah blah. Teen girls are growing up in a culture that enforces the idea that attention = respect. If you think they "don't respect themselves" it's because our…

I like this in theory, but am worried that in reality what might happen is the dancers/employees get a wage cut or some new levy gets introduced so it comes out of their earnings, not the clubs' profits.