You mean the twist when Vikander’s character literally peels the skin off the voiceless Asian sex slave robot and wears it to escape? I didn’t think that redeemed it... that whole film was a mess of gendered/racist tropes that are so tired.

I’ve run two marathons on my period - one with a tampon, which left me with a serious bacterial infection and chafing that took ages to heal, and one without, which left me with blood pooling around my thighs (I wore black because I’m not as brave as this awesome woman) but no awful after-effects. Everyone is…

I understand your point, mostly, but Stewart just won a César at Cannes- she's hardly a professional actor with few real career peaks considering she just made history.

So true. I always take the aisle seat on flights if I’m not in one of the first class pods, and I ALWAYS make clear to my seatmates - usually, in business, men in suits who are mystified by my presence in such an “exclusive” environment - that they will tap me on the shoulder so I can get up when they need to leave.

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It actually works better than American sunscreens because the EU has tested and approved ingredients your FDA refuses to for no reason. And if you’ve ever actually used sunscreen in Europe - particularly drugstore brands like Vichy or La Roche Posay (French brands), which Americans buy in heaps for all sorts of things…

It’s actually not in Whitechapel - it’s in Cable Street, which has nothing to do with Jack the Ripper and is completely misleading (for the record, I live in East London and had no idea Whitechapel was a tourist destination - is it Tayyab’s drawing everyone into Whitechapel? Because I would eat there every single day…

Not surprising, given that dental care here is free....

And straight teeth isn’t the sign of good teeth here. Which I prefer, actually, you can always tell an American by how freakishly white and straight their teeth are (and, as I’ve been told by a few, how many fillings that perfection is masking).

The Israel bit is funny, because most redheads in the region are Palestinian (and likely barred from attending ‘redhead conventions’ or other events).

It’s quite difficult to correct, actually, and nearly impossible once one is an adult - it’s something that needs to be addressed in childhood (if not by toddler-age) but for many it’s gone unnoticed until one is too far beyond the point of correction. Yes, it’s probably a dumb affectation on the mannequin shown, but…

I love my Mirena but my periods, while much lighter, last about 2 weeks now (and not heavy enough for a tampon, so I am that person who has to strap on a ‘lite day’ panty liner every morning, which sucks). Additionally, my strings were cut too short so now I have to have a sonogram every year to make sure the IUD is…

I think Wells would prefer not to be honoured by being on the currency of a nation that never passed the anti-lynching bill she spent the bulk of her life rallying support for (a detail this otherwise wonderful bio doesn't expand upon).

She didn’t give credit to Sophia al-Maria when she ripped off her video art to make the Bad Girls video.

It wasn’t just CULTURAL appropriation in Bad Girls - it was straight up a rip-off of the Qatari artist Sophia al-Maria’s video of the exact same thing. It was also shot in Ouarzazate - Morocco’s Hollywood - but features Gulfi leisure activities. Rounding off, I guess? I love M.I.A. but that video sucked a big one.

It’s about symmetry and height in couture model casting - campaigns are largely the same, but sometimes more emphasis on conventional attractiveness for more mainstream venues.

Orientalist that portrays the objects (not subjects - only white people get to be subjects) of study as interesting/good is still Orientalism, which is bad.

Please allow me to blow your mind:

Er, have you been following the news at all since 11 September, 2001? Perhaps since 7 July 2005? Women of colour (and particularly black women) from all over the globe have been subject to hair searches for a long, long time now. This article is a nice reminder, but this conversation has been had. And of course, as…

Ah, yes, I know what your point was because I was agreeing with you and offering you information from the London perspective, re: “Perhaps to rave is specific London slang. I don’t live in London.”

It’s pretty much a catch-all term in London, and typically means clubs that are shut-in or open for hours past other closing times. No one uses it to describe going to the pub or a restaurant, though. But we don’t call going out all night to dance/drug/drink “going to the club” either - it’s usually ‘rave.’ Been like…

Not really - not if you’re talking about the Mediterranean that was the center of world commerce and trade and mobility for centuries, where Africans and Asians and Europeans intermixed all the while and the Moors settled in large parts for about 700 years. I mean, a lot of fascists put a lot of effort into erasing…