“Guilty pleasure” is a way of shaming women for enjoying something that appeals to women and is written by a woman and created by a woman. It is a way of saying, “Your contribution to this sphere is embarrassing, but I guess people still like it and they should be ashamed.”

GTFO with “guilty pleasure”. It’s a smarter…

I mean, why is it a guilty pleasure? I would say it’s smarter than 90% of the “prestige” television that’s out there, and it certainly handles mental illness better than most stuff I’ve seen.

I legit keep a score in my head of anyone who ever says anything shitty about Bruce Springsteen, and they are forever DEAD TO ME. (Dave Grohl, I’m looking at you.)

Maybe he was on Ambien.

Twitter, where celebrities go to destroy their careers & reputations for no good reason quite consistently & bafflingly.

He could have Googled who she was before he decided to drag her. Also, her show which she created, writes, produces, stars in, writes music and lyrics for, has lasted longer than any show NPH has headlined.

What’s up with making days of the week possessive? It seems like a pretty common one these days. Just snug that lil “s” right up there, guys!

Real talk, Neil is a fucking asshole. I know folks who went to elementary school with him and they said even then before Doogie Howser he was a fucking spoiled brat. Nice to know he’s consistent.

NPH comes off like such a sexist prick here, he should be humiliated.

How do you like musicals and work in TV and not know who Rachel Bloom is? Especially when she is the wife of a writer on your show? And when you’ve met her, ever? I love NPH, but his response was real shitty. I hope he sends her flowers.

“Just feeding my base, that’s it. That’s the most important thing to me at all times.”

Apt. I wish his supporters understood that this is how the world sees him, no joke

My therapist once told me that negative emotions are like cats: the more you push them away, the more they come back and insist on sitting on your lap. If you just let them sit there for a bit, eventually they’ll wander off.

I’m not a scientist, but I imagine that the sudden occasional despair is a flood of built up brain chemical or somethings. When I realized that, it became easy to surf the wave and trust that I’d return to my happy self-but if you don’t understand what is happening it could be incredibly disorienting; maybe leading…

So glad others chimed in on this thread!

Oh yes! Of course! I vividly remember watching it in theaters and have watched it approximately five thousand times since.

Oh my God, are you me? I generally feel like a naturally happy person; at the same time, it is pretty easy for me to end up getting swamped by the depression that coexists with my baseline level of happiness.

That, and mental illness itself, are some of the things that make me shrink from the “it’s capitalism’s fault” theory. It feels so reductive.

I can both be happy-go-lucky and have chronic depression. In fact, that’s how I think of myself - I’m a naturally happy person who also has depression. My normal baseline is content and easygoing, but with fair regularity my mental illness overwhelms that baseline personality and I have to deal with that, up to and…

Cheerful happy-go-lucky people can feel suicidal, too. It doesn’t mean our happiness is just a persona. Suicidal thoughts, IMO, are a malfunctioning evolutionary impulse-a glitch in the brain. It’s a danger that many people face, not just people with chronic depression.