Apparently she had fairly decent grandparents. Not available in this case, unfortunately.

OMG so the movie/book Children of Men was right? Scary. I wonder who the world's youngest person will be?

Oh yeah, definitely. It may be heretical to say it, but the 80s/90s Disney films are loads better than the earlier ones. And the fact that the female characters actually have agency is a big part of that (though hardly the only one).

True. But most of the action in their stories is still dependent on those psychopaths. If there had been no villains Snow White and Sleeping Beauty would have stayed at home waiting for their princes quite happily,

34 year old dude, I thought Frozen pretty much hit the sweet spot by going full out Broadway.

Your childhood sounds like mine. I used to walk home from elementary school finding different paths and we used to hang out in canyons. And! I had to sell my Girl Scout cookies by going door to door by myself.

Well put. Burned!

"It wasn't until I was in my teens that I was left home alone. "

I call bullshit on this article. I have kids, I have neices, nephews, etc. They all still run around the neighborhood & play. They build forts. They ride their bikes. And, there are still fun kid's movies: ParaNorman was 80's style fun. There's a cool looking Goosebumps movie. This reminds me of an old man talking @ a…

I do think the era of these movies people 30ish and over cherish, for good reason, is over, but not necessarily for the reasons discussed. Yes, our children are supervised in some way or another most hours of the day. But the larger thing that nobody is hitting on or talking about, at least that I've seen in these…

It's absolutely still possible for a good movie of this type to be made. I know that I'm further down in the comments poo-pooing The Goonies as being a crappy movie, but it's crappy on its own merits, not because there's anything inherently wrong with the idea of going on an adventure with your friends looking for…

Not so long ago, movies like The Goonies, Stand By Me, E.T., and many more sent pint-sized explorers out into the wilds of their own neighborhoods to have adventures.

Look, my people were poor white trash and for the most part fought for the North, one even got shot after the war for deciding to go to an ex-Confederate general's bar where they knew he rode with Sherman, but I fucking love Gone with the Wind.

You're vastly overgeneralizing my position; I certainly agree grooming standards for men can be sexist. I just don't think this one is. I'd agree with you if the grooming standard was something with strong gender-preserving overtones like "men can't grow their hair long." That's a grooming standard directed at men…

As someone who got a full ride to BYU and has heard the "yuppie-ism must be enforced!" argument a gajillion times ... look, I'm still a yuppie, even though I left the Church a year ago.

Just because I wear LOFT sweaters and faux pearls from Nordstrom and Sperry's doesn't make me a TBM.

Same goes with facial hair. Jesus…

As an actual BYU grad, I'll point out that beards, unlike booze, boinking, and booty shorts, aren't actually against the doctrine of the religion. Hence, the protest. Similar thing happened back in the '80s when women weren't allowed to wear pants. A woman came to the testing center in a long coat and pants. She got…

You are assuming these kids had a *choice* of where they were allowed to go...

A practical reason for the strict measures at BYU (beyond OMGOppression):
BYU is cheap. REALLY cheap, like under $5K a year cheap and the reason for this is that tuition and the university itself is funded by tithing. The Church-owned university system (which includes BYU-Idaho, BYU-Hawaii, and LDS Business College) is…

I got 10/9, but I had to make up an extra bullet point because I'm special.

Anyone else take the quiz? I got a 22. However I think it's probably wrong. I could write a better quiz if I took the time.