I feel your pain. I used to freelance for a geek culture site, and eventually I began to feel like I was just writing advertorials and subsumed in a culture that's focused on pandering and consumption. I totally understand how/why people feel differently, but I'm also really glad I got burned out on it before this…

Wasn't she also kind of 70s hot, though? The willowy figure / long stick-straight hair / massive eyes thing seems like it was pretty in vogue at the time.

Wow, you just reminded me that Epitaph Records exists. Unless it doesn't anymore.

For some reason, I don't believe that everyone who says they're afraid of clowns is telling the truth. I think they might just do it because it's kind of a social norm. Like how I pretended to have an imaginary friend as a kid because I thought it was expected of me.

Those people sound insufferable.

My YA novel characters keep randomly chattering in my head, so I've been listlessly placing dialogue in my word doc. I also found a new structural direction for the plot, though, so it's just a matter of overhauling a bit of what I've done so far and refining it. Then writing it. Then editing it. Bleh.

Over a decade later and I still love that video/laugh at that face every time.

Have a script on my desk by Monday!

You can hate people based on sheer ubquity, right? I've never actually seen Keeping Up With the Kardashians (is that still a thing?), but her seeming omnipresence grates on my nerves. As is the claim that she's a feminist icon because she's a great businesswoman, or something, and I'm supposed to agree and like her…

I like both of those things, but I also recognize that neither are Actually Good.

At this rate, I might even settle for anything that isn't "superhero movie" or "upper middle class white couple in New York is getting divorce; learning how to live with malaise".

Somewhere along the line people became unable to separate "I really like something" and "Something is empirically great because I, an obvious genius and tastemaker, like it".

But whiny white boys never ruin anything!

I thought you were joking until I googled. Wow.

Don't you think that at least deserves some moral and philosophical investigation?

That wasn't me, but I appreciate the response nonetheless!

Patriarchy harms men in frequently different ways than it harms women. We're talking about how it effects women specifically in this context because the consequences and events are not proportional or equivalent.

Canada has a lot of evil stuff in its past (and present!) but has such inexplicably good PR that even a lot of Canadians won't believe it.

Are you really saying that rape culture is something women of this generation don't have to deal with?

You can feel things about your lived experience and still develop cogent arguments about their societal implications. Please see, like, all of the comments addressing the sexist bullshit in this comments section.