Uh, I would have to disagree with you in the "monster" characterization, since sexually manipulating/abusing children does make him a monster in my eyes, but yes I get your point about eliciting sympathy for him. It is awful to see someone psychologically and physically tortured, no matter what they did.

Orrrrrr the fact that he picked up a very young-looking girl off the Internet and the fact that she doesn't really need a confession from him—she plotted the entire revenge on behalf of a friend he victimized? I think the movie makes it crystal clear that he is indeed a sexual criminal. It doesn't rely on just his…

What do you mean? This is kind of like asking, "why do you take a dislike to people?" I don't really care about Green or the hullabaloo much, but I perfectly understand if someone finds his actions problematic and determines it to be "creepy." What's it to you?

I think when you're pitting a 14-year-old girl against a pedophile/hebephile, it's impossible to stay neutral. Probably the most it could do was question the ethics of extralegal justice and the costs of obtaining revenge, but I don't think it was ever trying to be like, "Isn't this Patrick Wilson dude a great guy?"

I've only seen him in the Divergent movies and thought he was convincingly menacing in them. Though admittedly those movies don't have a lot going for them.

Then you didn't read @Tzero's post closely enough, or are just talking straight past her. That poster was talking about being uncomfortable with Green mansplaining things to teenage girls about their own experiences: "I also remember being a teenager and watching one of his videos where he was trying to act like he…

Yeah, because what we've always lacked here is the confidence of men to think they they can speak for the experiences of women better than women can, or tell teenage girls how to perceive themselves.

Really? Regular Tumblr user here and I haven't seen any of that. General consensus seems to be that he's totally white-bread and cheesy, albeit mostly harmless author. People like his Crash Course stuff, though.

This makes sense if you consider PSH playing the alpha male of the dog pack. Joaquin Phoenix decides to emancipate from himself from the cult in the end and choose a life of rugged individualism, thereby choosing to be a cat instead of a dog. This is why PSH says to him: "If you leave me now, in the next life you will…

I was beyond pissed when I saw this trailer and Rachel McAdams got killed off. IN THE TRAILER. She didn't even survive the freaking trailer. That's some C-list "trying to break into Hollywood" role, not one for one of the most high profile and talented actresses of now.

I enjoy both immensely, but I also know a shit ton of kids from my generation who thought that The Breakfast Club's ending was cliched and lame, too after-school special-y. I kind of like the ending of Clueless more, because the kids return to the social groups they feel most comfortable/authentic in, but they're also…

Ever since 30 Rock, I think of Angie every time someone announces a new single: http://25.media.tumblr.com/…

It's weird that we assume that our online conversations take place in some sealed chamber, where the possibility of Asian women reading comments regarding them like some strange species haven't occurred to them. Like, hi, I'm actually right here.

I know he's not, he just came off that way and I was surprised to learn that he was not, in fact, British. But he does have a ton of classical/Shakespeare training, so I guess that's where that comes from.

I've loved him since he singlehandedly pulled me through the snoozefest that was Robin Hood. He was Prince John and was beautifully hammy in a very classic British kinda way. Also Drive, where he made me sad about his character dying after like 10 minutes of screentime.

Also, giving into the point of the original press release, people read "desegregation" and instantly think of the '60s rather than the late '80s.

My sympathies for what your friend is/was going through and you, too. Yeah, I also try to fully avoid contact with my grandmother and the couple other people in my life like that, but I also wonder if the distance is what allows me to empathize with them more fully in the abstract, since it's only when I can breathe…

This was from so long ago, but just wanted to say: Betty has always known that Don came from a poor background. In season 2, he casually mentions his farmer father to his kids, and I think Betty was around. Plus, wasn't he still a fur salesman when they first met? The other hint that Betty loved him *despite* his…

Yeah, he definitely shouldn't have revealed that part. That being said, I think he does make it clear that she wasn't just some "overly sensitive" type, but had some kind of personality/emotional disorder. He flat out says at the end that the family couldn't help because she wasn't taking her medication. And to some…

Yeah, I kind of love that scene. I like the the use of their first sexual interaction since his torture by Randall and the "healing spring" to show Jamie's psychic and physical mending, and they both know that she's pregnant without having to exchange too many words about it. Simple, but powerful. I thought it was…