Now that I think of it 'Shrek' and 'Chicken Run' are the only two Dreamworks animated films I really really liked, and 'Prince of Egypt' was emotionally affecting but with that story how could it not be. I know what you mean about lack of heart. They generally either seem like, I don't know, intellectual or technical…

Oh my god, does anyone remember the MTV telemovie from I think it was either the late 90s or the early 2000s? (of course, of course it was)!? I Erika Christensen was Cathy, Izzy from 'Grey's Anatomy' was, er, Izzy Linton and some smouldery pouty dude was 'Heath'! Instead of going to Liverpool to make his fortune as a…

But...but... if you don't share it with the internet and receive validation from masses of people who don't personally know you, then that means it didn't really happen!

Yeah, I can see what they were aiming for but also see where it backfired. Basically it's boiling down to telling girls "It's totally okay to be smart - as long as you're pretty too!!" which seems to be where the cultural 'evolution' from the now-outdated "You can valued for being smart or valued for being pretty, but…

This is the first thing I thought too. It won't affect the clubs' income, they'll just cut salaries of the dancers and servers, or introduce some new "levy" or similar.

Or there was that episode about porn, but it was a patient watching porn in his room because it was the only method of pain control that worked for him, or something. And they took the dirty movies away but then he was in pain and Yang was all "ugh, whatever" and began improvising a story for him about three nurses…

One of the reasons 'The Secret Garden' sticks out in my mind is that in that narrative Mary being thin at the start was framed as a bad thing, because the thinness was associated with poor appetite, ill health and mean-spiritedness. As she got healthier and happier she put on weight, and there's actually a line where…

Sorry if anybody else has said this eleventy times already - with 'Kinja' who would fucking know? - but I like when celebrities are honest about the effort that goes into looking how they do, rather than go down the "Oh, I just use a good moisturer and do an hour of gentle yoga every day, but I totally ate a…

I wondered briefly whether this was faked, but I don't see how. But the way the camera was aimed right there at the seagull, down on the level with the birds, it was almost like they were waiting for it to happen and were filming it especially.

I have a policy of sticking with a companion as long as they want me, because I assume they're going for the companion trophy. But because the game's been around for a while now, has anyone else started coming across companions who obviously know the game very well and are, well, kind of bossy? There's helping a…

When I get the "You all look like" line, even jokingly, I always use Margaret Cho's response. "Why do you need to tell us apart? Are we being sorted into groups? Are some of us being taken somewhere? What are you going to do to us?"

I've used Implanon for over six years, so I'm onto my third "rod" currently. It's a three year thing. I only ever spot very occasionally (like, I haven't in the last year or so), and apart from that no period, zilch, zero, I am a period free zone. I've also experienced none of the side effects like weight gain, etc.…

I have this fuzzy and not-entirely-fully-developed theory that the writers consider Hoyt the straight male audience wish fulfilment character - he's "normal" (well, normal by Bon Temps standards), good looking enough but not shown off in an objective female-gazey way like Jason or Eric, and the amazingly hot…

Yeah, I remember a bit of fun trivia that came out of the 2000 Games in Sydney was that there is actually a maximum permissible width for the bit between leg and hip on the women's team bikini bottoms.

Also - and this could be way too cynical and harsh of me - but I think it's particularly useful to see male commenters being quite harsh and critical of the "I am a rapist, this is my story" submissions. As in, I'm a big believer in the theory that a depressing number of rapists genuinely don't believe that…

Agreed. This is why I'm a big fan of the "enthusiastic consent" theory. If you are in any kind of doubt that the yes is anything less than an OH FUCK YES! then may don't bone. I get so skeeved when rape apologists start going on about "It's so hard to know for certain that she's into it" blah blah blah. Stop it!…

And I've been thinking hard about if someone asked me "How does this combat rape culture?" would I answer? I really don't know, but maybe like you say, that so many of the incidents involved guys who knew their victims, their victims thought they could trust them, the circumstances were more of the date rape type than…

Last sentence made me LOL. Well played.

Yeah, if the video above is the NBC footage as broadcast, it's not like she just happened to be visible in the background of a shot focused on Raisman. There's actually a cut away only on her, as the camera lovingly lingers on the poor girl trying to keep her shit together. WTF?

This will sound weird, but for me she's one of the few female characters on TV who I can relate to emotionally. Some characters, it's like they're almost saying to the female audience "Just fantasise for an hour that you are anywhere near as awesome as she is and that your life is as amazing and interesting as hers"…