My very dear friend adopted 3 children, over the course of 5 years, from Russia. Conditions in the orphanages she visited were as Dickensian as you'd imagine. Fortunately no one figured out that both she and her husband are gay (truth).

Because let me tell you, growing up in a Russian orphanage will most definitely guarantee a "full and harmonious development" of the child, with no "suffering, complexes and stresses" (I particularly love this mention of psychologists' studies - I wonder where they pulled that one, considering how pretty much every…

Their adoption process is so insane. My brother is adopted from Russia. Took over a year to get the process done (and we were on a time church because he was 15 and ineligible for adopted at age 16!). At one point they cut off adoptions because Americans "use them as child labor then bury them in the back yard." Or…

Disgusting. My heart goes out to women who do not have access to or the legal option of abortion. I find it truly frightening as a woman to imagine myself in those situations without the right to choose.

Good observation. It's not because the heroes in question had tiny penises in "real" life. It's because art chose to emphasize certain parts of the body (overall proportion, muscularity, symmetry etc) and de-emphasize others (sexual organs). The penis was considered somewhat animalistic, so it had to be shown in…

Unabashed Vanessa Bayer fan here. She's cute, hilarious, and can deliver lines.

I don't think my self esteem would survive in a world where the attractive scale bottomed out at Vanessa Bayer. It's like I'd have to be measured in Kelvin.

Very, very accurate. Kids in an already unstable and/ or abusive environment are much easier targets. And it gives the abuse greater plausible deniability- 'oh no, you can't believe his/her claims of molestation- they're just messed up in the head and seeking attention because of these other problems in the home...'…

Yes, it is extremely problematic. I understand Farrow was incensed, shocked and angry at what happened. But you do not publicly slander your daughter (not that you should do it privately either). And that is not to say I'm taking Allen's side in this at all, as it is still highly inappropriate to date your child's sibl…

Yeah, that's one of the arguments that doesn't really make sense to me either. I mean, quite frankly, the bad stuff I hear about Mia makes me somewhat more likely to believe Dylan's account. I don't think Woody abusing Dylan and Mia "collecting" kids as a way to feel better about herself and then acting out (even…

I think it's important to remember that even if Mia was a horrific mother, that doesn't mean that Dylan is a liar. You can dislike Mia without questioning the experiences of an abuse victim.

Because if you have bad mother, that means it's impossible to be raped? Most molesters actively seek out children who have no one to protect them.

Mia's treatment of Soon-Yi is seriously disturbing and messed up. I didn't know that she said half those things about her daughter, but good grief, I can't even imagine how many levels of fucked up you have to be to say these kind of things in public. Shame on her. I hope she was a better mother to the rest.

I have to side with Mia on this one. Woody shattered their lives. Woody should be grateful she stabbed up a card and not his body.

Mia's explanation of the "valentine" during testimony in the custody trial, "It was not a threat, it was an attempt to depict to a man who didn't know or didn't care what he had done," she said. "He seemed to have no concept. The morality of the situation seemed to have totally eluded him. I wanted to depict the…

Pretty scary? He molested one daughter and groomed and married another. Let's get our perspective right side up.