This has probably been said but I don’t think the Taylor backlash is all that surprising. I’m a 30 something black woman, so not her demographic but I kinda root for her. By all accounts outside of the Kanye nonsense she’s a kind, generous and thoughtful person, and since my twenties weren’t that long ago, I feel for…

Awesome! I also got divorced from The Other Asshole, I feel like I finally hit my stride in my career, and I went on a vacation with a boyfriend who I love and he loves me and he treats me respectfully. I have a 13 yo daughter who still likes me, for the most part, and I have the strongest female friendships in my…

See, this is a healthy perspective. Global politics suck, but your life is your life. People need to ask themselves, if we didn’t have the internet to feed us bad news, would that change our opinions on 2017? I got my drivers license at 30 after a decade of fear. I traveled to Italy having never flown. I went out on a…

Yes! We need a “Good Stuff That Happened in 2017" thread!

I disagree - while 2017 started off shitty, it ended with the Hollywood Reckoning, and for that I am grateful. I hope this recent environment of BELIEVING victims continues into 2018, and we continue to try flush every abusive dickhead out of a position of power.

Fair enough, reading comprehension is diminished by my wine consumption.

OMG. every damn time I see/hear Apatow interviewed in connection with the #metoo events (because he’s all over the place for some reason), I yell at the tv/radio for someone (anyone!) to ask him about his and Seth Rogen’s trashing of Heigl, for having the nerve to say some TRUTHFUL SHIT about the fact that it was,…

Yep. Jay-Z had a variant on his when his first daughter was born, some insight on how awful it was to call women “bitches” and how being a Father To A Daughter meant he understood that now. Oh fuck off. You understood it just fine before, but you now have the fear that some asshole is going to be just like you to your…

I’m with Taylor. 2017 has been great for me personally. I moved abroad, found a great new job, made some amazing new friends, turned 30, travelled a bunch, got in the best shape of my life, and have been just generally living my best life. Donald Trump is making the world an actual nightmare, and that sucks every day,…

I had a good year too. My first real vacation that wasn’t just going to my mom’s house, my job is good, and I got divorced from The Asshole.

isn’t she talking about her personal life?

I’m so fucking bored for this hate-on for Taylor Swift. She’s neither feminist role model or emblem of evil. She had a good year this year. People are allowed to have those! Call me when she hits someone with her car.

Ah! Now we’re policing gratitude? What?! Are you that dense?

A couple of years at Harvard and an undeserved screenwriting Oscar?

It implies that men only care about women when they are their property.

Exactly. Also, If you can only empathize because you have a daughter, then you have no business raising sons, because they’ll never get it either.

I’ve said it before but I especially hate the Father Of A Daughter line. Fuck you. Either you care about this because you’re a decent human being, or you don’t. I don’t have a daughter. I have a son. And I’d argue that as a woman who’s been sexually assaulted, I care more about raising him to properly respect others…

Damon’s got that thing where he’s just so certain that he has a worthwhile opinion on any topic.

I imagine the price that he’s paid at this point is so beyond anything that he—

Children are so much easier to teach than grown men.