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Only Rihanna could so confidently sport the Kate Gosselin hairstyle throwback. Kudos where kudos are due, of course.

Man. I was riding on a 10 minute wave of hope after watching her speech but you’ve effectively drowned it. This sounds more disparaging than I mean it to be; I’m actually very impressed at how persuasive you are. Or disheartened at how easily manipulated/influenced I am.

I’m inclined to agree with you but I think Trump winning has made a lot of people wake up to the reality of what happens when people don’t do anything. I know a young 20-something who, prior to the election, told me “I just don’t see the point in voting. What difference have I ever seen from my vote?” I laid into her

I don’t know; there’s a different undercurrent of social power behind this sort of thing now. If there’s anything to take away from the #metoo movement, it’s that these “angry kids” can make or break a person/idea and the people in power are starting to quake in their boots a bit. I hope I’m not being naively hopeful

I do not like superhero movies in general, or comics really for that matter. Every time I get suckered into seeing one (“this one is better, this one is different!”) I walk out disappointed because it’s more of the same trash (I’m looking at you, Wonder Woman). Non-existent plots, one-dimensional characters without

But if they left him in Korea, we wouldn’t have gotten the moment (spoiler alert) where he tries to jump into the discussion and gets told to keep his mouth shut or die! That was one of my favorite parts

This is so important and I never hear it in these discussions. Of course gun control is needed, but it goes so much deeper than that. There’s something fundamentally wrong with our society that I never noticed until traveling, and it has very little to do with guns. We don’t value each other. We’re so full of hate and

Literally everyone else here understood exactly what the sign meant, what it was referring to, and what its context is. It’s not our fault if you’re not as quick as the rest of the commenters here.

For the record, I’ve never seen a single episode of SATC and have absolutely zero skin in the game. The only media I’ve enjoyed from either actress is Hocus Pocus. I just know enough manipulative narcissists to recognize the behavior, and SJP is checking all of the boxes in this scenario.

I understand what you’re saying, and for the most part I agree. I do think there is something about being raised surrounded by death - not just abuse, not just violence, not just manipulation, but in seeing death every day- that changes people on a fundamental level. I can’t imagine what that does to a person, or what

I did not know that- it definitely makes me less sympathetic to her. Still, in brutal regimes like this, there is a fluidity between victim and victimizer that I find hard to judge too harshly. It’s the same way I feel about people who join gangs and kill people, or terrorists in the Middle East- it’s incontrovertibly

I agree with you that she is not one to be admired or looked up to for any reason, but isn’t she just doing what is required of her for her own survival? As you noted, her brother already killed her other brother and their uncle. That looks like the trained, forced smile of someone who knows that if she doesn’t show

I just have to say, I loved you in Hocus Pocus!

This is not a good barometer, because it’s very easy for people to charm their way through brief encounters for the sake of their image, and that’s exactly what sociopaths and narcissists do. I absolutely believe that someone like SJP could be super sweet to fans and servers because she only has to see them once and

Yeah, when I read this it did strike me as very gaslight-y. I’ve definitely been in this sort of situation before, where there’s a lot of vicious behavior (from both sides, even) in private but one person pretends, publicly, to be all kindness and good intentions, only to continue the nasty behavior in private. It

Are you feeling okay? This is a really insane response to a reasonable comment that was not at all saying what you think it was.

Oh come on. She was looking real rough for a while, but she looks good in these photos! She’s my hope that someday I, too, might not look so haggard- don’t take that away from me!

Yeah, I don’t even care what her message is because it’s just kind of shitty art. And no, I’m not one of those people who think only Caravaggio paintings are “real art” - I went to an art school that had a heavy emphasis on conceptual/performance pieces, and even ten years ago this would have seemed tired.

“People don’t like me anymore because too many people liked me, so now that fewer people like me, everyone will like me again!”

I read the article without watching the video and agreed with all of this. Then I watched the video and almost died at how embarrassingly awkward it was. That wasn’t even a you did a decent job “It was dope!” but a full-on are you seriously going to make me comment oh god lemme try to pretend not to hate you “It was