I admired Pixar director/writer Andrew Stanton's honesty on the 'Finding Nemo' DVD bonus materials, where he admitted that originally Dory was a male character because that's just the default "and I'm a dumb guy". Pixar was going to just yet another story where the protagonists were male, with a few supporting female…

Just read it then too (I haven't seen ZDT yet) but it seemed to me to be buying into the whole "a story with a male protagonist is just a story, a story with a female protagonist is A STORY ABOUT A CHICK" thing.

I sometimes wonder whether Greer looks at the actress playing whatever protagonist she's currently playing "snarky best friend" to and thinks "for fuck's sake, this should have been me. I was amazing in Jawbreakers."

I feel conflicted being annoyed about this, but I can't help it, I am! Yes, of course it is absolutely not unheard of for women in their early 20s to be (a) widowed (b) damaged troublemakers (c) in love with and/or attracted to men in their 30s. And like I say, I love Jennifer Lawrence as an actress and she seems like…

Only in the sense that I also hate the "Baby on board" type stickers, in that they seem to assume that I (general I, the driving public of the world) won't take general precaution and care unless you're a special demographic of the population. "Oh, you've got a baby on board? I was planning on just rear-ending you for…

The only question then is who would play Affleck's cool, supportive, and over-reaching parents, and who would play Cooper's uptight and in-denial-about-their-son's-sexuality parents. And who would have a cameo as the outrageously potty-mouthed social worker. Because it would be this sort of romantic comedy about a gay…

I assumed at first they obtained some kind of permit to do this, in manner of parade or similar, but I guess not (?)

Because unless you do something in public and receive the validation of at least a couple of hundred strangers, it didn't really happen. Duh.

I remember in 'Bossypants' Tina Fey joked about her or Amy Poehler being the perfect age to play Will Ferrell's mother.

I can't remember if it was VF, but I know one of those glossy magazines did a cover once with I think it was Seth Rogen and Jason Segel all naked and pouty, doing a parody of the one where it was naked and supplicant Keira Knightly and Scarlett Johannson (I know I misspelt that, sorry) naked with some entirely clothed…

But then I could have pretended Affleck, Cooper and Wallis were starring in a romantic comedy about a couple who adopt a kid.

I love Jennifer Lawrence but it really pissed me off that in the book Tiffany is the same age as Pat but in the movie she's played by an actress in her early 20s. Because an actress the same age as Bradley Cooper, yuck, gross, who wants to see that. /sarcasm

It might not be pedophilia but unless you too are a mid-to late adolescent, it's kinda pathetic.

And then be sure to watch the 90s telemovie version starring Rebecca DeMornay and the guy from 'Wings'!

Oh, just to be clear I wasn't implying "models are tall, you are tall, you should feel like society says you're hot", I was genuinely curious about whether the "six foot supermodel" thing has any kind of bearing. And you're right, you don't really know they're tall from pictures in magazines etc.

I'd be interested to know whether the fact that models (ie certified: ATTRACTIVE by our culture) are generally tall, has any kind of impact on how tall women feel their height affects their desirability.

nonononono. I have a round face, weak chin and short neck. I've worn a bobbed wig in a play (many years ago so I've nearly been able to entirely repress the memory, thank goodness) and I. looked. terrible.

I dunno. Since high school my hair has been, to steal a quote from 'Little Women', "my one beauty". As in, it's been literally the only thing about my appearance that has received objective positive validation. I cut it late last year, from well below waist length to shoulder blade length, and it felt like a pretty…

Yeah, beauty privilege is a real thing, and there are ways it has acted as leverage for you. The thing is you probably just weren't aware - because as you say you don't use this privilege intentionally. Like how a male may not realise he has male privilege because he just assumes that's how life is, or a white person…

YES. This is still my favourite episode.