It’s interesting, too, that different parts of fairytales/Disney movies are aspirational or inspiring to different people. I always saw Cinderella as regressive, trite bullshit, but I’re read accounts from a lot of girls and women from abusive or even just neglectful family situations that found the very idea of being…

He didn’t kidnap or torture her.

She doesn’t have Stockholm Syndrome, though. She volunteers to take her father’s place after he’s imprisoned for trespassing, so she isn’t being held against her will. She’s given a room instead of being kept in a cell, and she has free roam of the castle. And even though the Beast is rude to her, she holds her own…

Anyone who says this isn’t straight up fascism, is a straight up fascist themselves. Our right to peacefully assemble, which means anything short of actually smashing shit up, is guaranteed by our 1st amendment constitutional rights. Don’t think for a second that this law will not be used by a federal agency at some…

Well, maybe, but also quite possibly not.

Honestly I don’t know how people don’t understand that. It drives me up the wall when people say, “Your candidate lost. Get over it.” Like, how many times has our candidate ‘lost’, and we’ve all been able to accept it? Every. Single. Time. Until now. For the reason you’ve listed.

I do want it said and again and again how this has nothing to do with conventional politics. Trump isn’t just wrong or bad (or even primarily wrong or bad) because he’s a Republican. He’s bad because he’s just a shitty human being who just so happens to have hijacked politics.

Please stop with the “alt-right.” They are neo-nazis. White supremacists. White Nationalists. Take your pick. But do not use the language they adopted to hide who they really are.

STOP calling them Alt Right!!! They are NEO NAZIS!! The fact that they’ve given themselves a harmless sounding name does not change what they truly are.

I do absolutely get the “it’s easier for a man to be a feminist” thing. Every now and then a troll will presume I’m a woman and I’ll get a fraction of the gendered harassment that women on this site get, and it’s such a heartbreakingly personal reminder of how I, as an ally, can't truly understand the psychic toll of…

While I’m all about a diverse bachelorette, I would not have tuned in for Caila. She was low-key crazy, and not in an endearing or amusing way. I think ABC was going to cast her, but she was just too boring. I seriously doubt this was a race issue. It was a boring issue.

This so much. I want to rage every time I hear “blah blah blah underwater basket weaving”. I even hear it from other Millennials sometimes, which just goes to show how well the Boomers’ indoctrination has worked.

I saw The Witch last weekend and I’ve spent the week thinking it over because there was a lot going on. I also spent sometime reading articles about it. First off, I did enjoy it. It is about a family banished into the wildness due to the father’s pride. Before the supernatural stuff start things already are going…

IT ISN’T FUNNY ANYMORE

People want the same experience as japanese get. The original vision. But yeah I don’t really care if they reduce some bust size or something, whatever. Does matter to some people, for some people it just reprisents the fact that they are altering the original visuals/stories and such. And they want it to be stopped.…

well it was a fun controversy while it lasted folks

Thank you! That’s so much more practical than what I was told in school, which was essentially “don’t bother”. I don’t know if the lady was having a bad day, trying to hurry me out of her office for another appointment or what, but she didn’t even want to talk about options on how to get better prepared.

The people complaining about millenials living with their parents are the people who are trying to sell mortgages and overpriced apartments/condos.

I work for a large research center at a public university, so all of our salary data are publicly available. Over the past 15 years, my employer relatively lowered the entry-level salary (basically by not raising it with inflation), decreased annual increases from ~5 to ~2.5%, and lowered the salary increases between…