John Kelly fired Gorka, though I’m not sure how you get fired from a pretend job.

Because the ‘crazy’ hair doesn’t matter unless it’s on a hot girl.

The whole “Caught my reflection, here’s a description of my ass” bit feels very textbook porn stories.

Taylor Swift is the musical equivalent of Fireball Whiskey...popular..artificially sweet..terrible.

The author does not know how to do the “she doesn’t know she’s beautiful!” trope right. The protagonist doesn’t sound modest/oblivious, she sounds like a member of the Plastics doing their ritualistic/performative self-criticism in front of the mirror.

“UGH I HATE MY WEIRD VIOLET EYES AND FLAME-COLORED HAIR, WHY COULDN’T I JUST BE NORMAL HOT” - every Mary Sue ever

I read this excerpt and it made me think I could very easily be a famous YA author. The writing is horrendous, but also, her lack of a thigh gap is her great flaw?

I can acknowledge the point, buried somewhere in there, that it must be very irritating to have created great female characters like Ripley and (to some extent) Sarah Connor, and have everyone “Finally!”-ing Wonder Woman.

I bet most of those mansplainers are all just Jean Claude Van Damme, using a bunch of sockpuppet accounts.

I think she was “retired” by high school so in her mind this kid is simply way too old not to be able to do splits.

The misconception that young athletes can just walk it off is brutally persistent in this country’s sports programs; the idea the kids “bounce,” that they heal in no time, etc. Yes, a child probably can recover more quickly than a forty year old from strained muscles and bruises, but damage done young doesn’t…

It’s insane. I think sports are great. Participating in sports is a great way for kids to learn the value of teamwork and how to work toward achieving a goal. Obviously, the physical fitness aspect is valuable, too. But it boggles my mind how much emphasis people place on it. It’s insane the kind of pressure adults…

This mindset is deeply sick and truly thinks of these young children as clay to impress their dreams of stardom into. The notion that they have physical bodies with limits and pain receptors is considered as weakness to push past, as though Athena or some other deity is going to reward their physical sacrifices.

It was part sarcasm and part fact.

You are one hundred percent right. Sports culture in this country is disturbed. And the toleration of bodily injury and pain is probably the worst thing about it. Throughout high school, college and grad school I’ve watched star athletes be praised for doing the exact same thing: injuring themselves and then taking on…

May I present, this map:

This is sports culture in America. Sports teams get amazing funding as teachers are struggling to keep pencils in their classrooms, many of our colleges rank sports as more important than classes, sports are being pushed onto kids younger and younger, and they’re only getting more extreme. And I don’t mean like fun,…

As a former high-school female cheerleader back in the 70's, I can confirm that splits are:

1. Something you need to work your muscles into over a period of time

I am not clicking that video.

Short Term 12 is my official cry movie. Don’t even know how many times I’ve seen it when a good sob-fest was in order