Excuse me James, but all superheroes (except for maybe the Hulk) are beauty icons. That’s the unspoken core of the genre: perfect physical specimens expressly designed to ping the hardons of teenage boys.

This is a non-profit organization IIRC. An advisory board could be people who donated a large sum of cash to keep this place open. It’s entirely possible the legal issues were kept as close to the vest as possible (especially out of range of big donors).

What he’s missing is that it doesn’t have to be Wonder Woman OR Sarah Connor— we can have BOTH. They’re completely different women, because there isn’t just one type of woman, and the idea that we can only have one archetype of feminist icon is fucking stupid.

Was the original suit in the West coast news? I barely know who she is, but having been on advisory boards, unless Larson had a google alert set for Cinefamily or one of the litigants contacted her directly, it is entirely possible she didn’t know. Advisory board members are often people who either write a big check…

Yup, social worker here and I thought it was a great film. I don’t work in residential treatment, but I do work with adolescents, many of whom have spent time in residential treatment, and I’d say it’s a pretty accurate portrayal, and done in a way that didn’t seem exploitative or sensationalized.

She totally was!

She could’ve given the weakest, emptiest of PR statements, but we get this. Brie Larson is a class act.

This is one of the best statements I’ve seen from a celebrity. Reading “I believe you” is so, so powerful.

That “girls do the work, boys get the rewards” shit made me livid when I was in school and I very quickly showed any dudes in my class I wasn’t dealing with it. My freshman year, our first year seminar class was put into pairs to do a presentation on something and my male partner did almost literally nothing. I worked…

I’d rather have my boys in Girl Scouts than anyone’s girls in Boy Scouts.

It’s vital. VITAL that girls have a safe space to grow, learn, and develop their own strength away from a world that prizes boys from birth.

Having worked at a major GS council (regional, instead of national) I can state that GS embodies its values and mission, and has always been open as an LGBTQ+ ally without needing to be pressured into it by donors and members unlike the BSA (they haven’t said so, but I’m 100% sure BSA finally bowed to pressure because…

They need to be separate.

“I dunno, Brad, you don’t think they’re maybe, I dunno, too square looking? I mean, that one kid’s got a sweater over his shoulders or some shit.”

I might be wrong but it sounds like Joss has cheated with some of the cast/crew. It’s also not that he just cheated one time, but he has cheated multiple times and then gaslighted his wife about it.

I imagined Jon’s inner monologue during that scene was “please don’t say yes please don’t say yes I mean I really like it and I even personalized it already so pleeease say no!”

Oh sure, mock us with a well groomed and sane Prime Minister.

If you haven’t seen it, the Beware the Slenderman documentary on this stabbing on HBO is a really informative, heartbreaking look at the situation. Getting a glimpse at these girls’ lives leading up to the attack and understanding the context of it really sheds a new light on it. It’s not just some nasty, Mean Girl…

I hope she gets treatment, she seemed to have trouble distinguishing reality and make believe. But she is still a danger to herself and others if left without rehabilitation.

That, more than anything, was the most frustratingly counter-intuitive part of the episode for me. Suddenly The Hound becomes the kind of fucking moron he’s been fighting this whole season? What? No.