But seriously, I’ve been trying to watch Man in High Castle, and it’s not half as good. I’ve watched the whole season of Good Girls Revolt 3 times and repurchased the book. I also showed it to my mom and she is hooked now, too. What is Amazon playing at? Don’t they know that young women are one of the strongest…

There’s also more to this story than is known.

Is David O’Russell the low-cost Irish scab one hires when one can’t get David O. Russell, like Senor Spielbergo?

Others associated with the show (Lynn Povich, the former Newsweek reporter whose book was the inspiration for the show, as well as the cast) have been pretty vocal about the cancellation as well.

Canceling this show and propping up that odious piece of shit Woody Allen says everything about the leadership at Amazon. Their largest budget to date is for a car show (which I love, btw) that is hosted by another odious piece of shit, an outright racist with brain damage and James May.

Its an interesting question, and I think the key is nuance. Its one thing to just toss rape in as a plot device, its another to treat sexual assault with the kind of respect it deserves. Jessica Jones is a great example of this.

No, because that isn’t the ONLY trauma that a woman can experience. Women are people, and just like men, we are affected by many different things. In addition, the rape of a woman is too often used as a motivator for a male character—we get to explore his guilt, his quest for revenge, etc.

It can be, but it’s also overused and sometimes completely unnecessary to the overall narrative of the story being told. The same way that the plot device of a man losing a woman love interest to death or capture is.

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I get it but I also don’t.

She was very close to her family. But it was well known in Corpus Christi her dad was not that supportive of her English pop music transition and resented her husband’s support of her. They have retained a tight control over image to protect it from exploitation. It’s so horrible they can’t agree how to present her…

My dad absolutely canceled my birthday party once. Not only that, he made me phone all the friends I’d already invited and explain to them that the party was canceled, and why (because my report card had been middling).

If I ever have misbehaving kids, I’m going to write them a letter from Santa’s lawyer, laying out precisely why they’ve forfeited presents from Santa, and leave them just that under the tree. That’ll cure them.

She had a third kid last year and left me to deal with the older ones one day while she dealt with the baby, her husband was at work, and our parents were out on the town. So the kids are showing me their toys and they had this squishy ball on a flexy “string” and I invented a game right then and there. I can spin…

Reminds me of a friend of mine back in middle school. We were out on the basketball court with a few guys and he stands on a picnic table way off to the side to make a trick shot that he had no realistic chance at (he was not good at basketball). He was just messing around, but he said “Now I’ll use my SATAN POWERS to…

My dad got coal for Christmas once. He was a notoriously terrible kid, so my grandparents actually followed through with giving him nothing but a stocking full of coal on Christmas morning. Granted, this was the early 60's or whatever when you didn’t get shit but socks anyway.

- When my kids were little and were acting like complete and utter cretins during Christmastime, I would pull out my cell phone, pretend to dial and tell them “I’m calling Santa, you little creeps! And I’m going to tell him to bring you hot sauce, pickles and mustard for Christmas!!” They would naturally lose their…

The reason you start with a hot pan is if you use a cold one the oil gets sopped up by whatever you’re intending to cook, instead of being cooked by that oil. This makes food greasy (not like a nice flavorful grease either, just limp and oily) and significantly degrades the flavor. Get that shit hot enough to sizzle…

You run out of water too soon with a glass full of ice. Then you end up sucking the ice for water droplets, like you’re dying of thirst in the Sahara or in coach on an airplane.