Miranda is the ultimate leader in her chosen field, has two cute daughters, and lives in an utterly fabulous NYC brownstone. Her life is literally #goals and Andi is A FOOL.

Not sure she counts as “lame” but I hate that we are supposed to hate Miranda Priestly and think Andy made the right decision by dramatically quitting in favor of her whiny boyfriend who needs a very special birthday party on his birthday. Miranda Priestly is supposed to be a cautionary tale because she is a divorced…

I watched it with my dad and our after-movie conversation went the same. Maybe with a bit less of, “What did he do wrong?” and a bit more of, “Learn from this and please, please, please, don’t make bad choices like Winona.”

THANK YOU. One of my friends told me that a friend of hers tweeted that being an adult meant identifying more with Sally Field in “Mrs. Doubtfire” and they were right. I rewatched the movie after that and dammit Miranda Hillard gets a raw deal.

No this is a really good take.

The Fish in The Cat in the Hat should be at the top of this list. I know, in the cartoon it is voiced by a guy but the book does not assign that fish a gender and I would argue it is the ultimate Lame Bitch.

We are set up to hate the fish, when all it does is point out that we don’t know that cat and he should not be…

This. The daughter, her friend, and the next door neighbor kid are the only really sympathetic characters in the movie. Wonder if that was the point - showing how the selfish acts of the parents were messing with their kids. At least that’s what I remember, it has been a while since I watched it.

omg omg omg - if I had the time I would direct you to a blog post of mine from like 2006 from my now totally defunct blog in which I stated that one can tell how mature a girl is by her opinion on Winona Ryder’s decision in Reality Bites. Thinks Ethan Hawke was the best choice - immature. Thinks Ben Stiller was best…

Also, why the hell can’t he just put the beer down and keep making out with her? If they were going to have sex he would have had to put the beer down eventually. How did he even turn that into an argument?

Lester reminded me of my dad and I always just found him pathetic. Like it’s gross when your dad is hitting on the cashier in the grocery store and that chick is in your biology class. And when you complain about it, “what, I was just being nice.” It’s like no, you were being gross.

I don’t think American dreams deserves to be on this list; I never saw Lester as a hero. The story is about about all these people’s desires to be an ideal that’s probably been sold/advertised to them, and how it makes them all miserable.

I never felt bad for Lester, he always made me uncomfortable. I felt sorry for the daughter, the girl Lester preys on, and the moody next door neighbor with the asshole dad. I think I mostly ignored the mom because as a teen girl I couldn’t relate to her storyline as much, but I sure as fuck knew how it felt to be…

...Or an actor, comic, dancer or other professional attention-seeker. Goes for all genders, BTW.

Guy in a band here, and I think it’s more on the dude to make sure it’s clear that she doesn’t have to come to every show to qualify as a supportive SO. My wife comes to about 1 out of 4 shows and that’s plenty. She’s heard us play it all before, I’m too busy to hang out with her much, it’s loud and takes forever, it…

I could not get into breaking bad because of how White treated his wife. He was a garbage person from the jump, and we’re supposed to see him as this hero who takes on the burden of illness by himself by selling drugs. Fuck off Walter. Sorry you got cancer but you’re not an awesome husband(or even decent) for lying to…

Absolutely dead on about American Beauty. Love Alan Ball’s writing and Mendes’s direction, but whether we’re supposed to have any sympathy for Lester Burnham is up in the air, for sure. I never have.

And not even getting into prestige tv “lane bitches”

Also? Ben Stiller’s character, Michael, in Reality Bites. He’s supposed to be the lame boyfriend alternative to hot, inconsiderate, wounded musician Ethan Hawke. Stiller gets dumped on because he has a job, wears a suit, tries to be socially adept, and makes a reality TV pilot that focuses on Winona and her friends’…

Scott treats Knives like a lame hanger-on, but all she does is support him and go to his rock shows, which, if you’ve dated a musician, you know is the most boring thing a girlfriend could possibly have to do.

Meghan Markle understands when you are black you have to be twice as good.