Looks like she’s going for camp.

So it’s like Basic Instinct. Ok - well, lucky for Louise she / her husband have the cash to produce this with her as the star, because no one else is going to hire her in this role. Going to be like the guy reviewing Carry Mulligan today, and point out: she’s not beautiful enough. She has the figure, but...her face…

A movie this bad doesn’t deserve lighting that good.

I’ve never seen anyone look more like a rapist than Ed Westwick

Individual therapy, definitely. Yes. Family therapy? I’m not so sure that’s a good idea in cases of parental abuse.

Completely agree about Claudia needing an individual therapist. I’m sorry you had a racist shitty therapist. I’ve had my fair share too. Sometimes I think it should be harder to become a therapist, especially one that deals with children, families, and trauma. Nothing sets me off sooner than normalizing and…

You can go ahead and paint them all with an industrial paint sprayer. It’s so far beyond even using a broad brush.

Exactly this! I had no idea that I’d grown up in an abusive home until I was nearly 25, (thankfully!!!) as I started reading up and preparing for the challenges of becoming a parent. I left home at 18, so most of the physical abuse stopped then, but their emotional abuse didn’t stop until contact with them stopped @8…

I’m sure that she’s going to experience the lasting repercussions of having a parents(s) like this and that her sense of “normal” is skewed.

Or perhaps it’s an indication that to her, that kind of emotional and physical abuse IS a normal mother/daughter phenomena.

Not “you people,” that was poor phrasing. I can see how you read it that way but not what I meant. Should maybe have written instead “how you get people saying...”

Literally the woman who coined the term “alternative facts”:

As much as I try not to paint people with too broad a brush, it’s hard to ignore how many of the staffers of that administration are shitty human beings. 

I think a lot of people don’t know how to process the abuse of others/the evidence of abuse. That’s not because all people are from good families, but there seems to be a prevailing belief that kids will be kids and adults will, in the very least, be casually cruel. No matter what, you’re supposed to maintain contact…

Also, my own experience, I try not to sound off at the people in my life, but then some of them will do things like: (1) invite me to come to a bar with them, (2) hear me say no, and then (3) react like I’ve just priggishly scolded them for asking, or for wanting to go in the first place, when I very specifically did…

prohibition versus harm reduction

“having expectations of people without giving them the necessary resources”

Maybe that’s been your experience. Tell that to the pandemic puritan who berated me for half an hour when she found out I had a pod or the asshole who yelled at me from a 100 feet away for hiking in the middle of nowhere without a mask (it’s not like I was on a popular trail or anything - the whole day I was there, I…

This is not a great take.

Seriously - everyone should read that Elle article. It is merciless and hilarious. Being an out-of-touch pampered nitwit, she was probably extremely excited to be profiled. I LOVE IT.