I see them as considering trans women as men, so hating that men are muscling in on womens spaces. Yet more of the patriarchy asserting itself, only in drag this time. That’s always been my rough take on how terfs think.

I’m publicly misogynist when it comes to this specific woman, so fuck you if you complain about my upsettingly vehement hatred THAT FUCKING WOMAN

Yeah, this was...a REMARKABLY bad take. The Me Too movement isn’t “criticism.” By that logic, men are criticized for, uh, sexual assault and physical abuse. Women are criticized for...being successful and not being humble about it. Or being beautiful and not feeling bad about it. Or being “childish” when they’re 29. Le…

I think the key flaw of Summer is summed up by when they run into each other at the wedding.

I remember I went to see this with one of my best girlfriends in college (we were 2o at the time, so really the perfect age for this level of twee). We both really enjoyed it, but I walked out bemoaning how much of a bitch Summer was, while my friend thought Tom was such an asshole. In retrospect, I think I fall more…

When I rewatched it in my late 30s I thought it held up. It is honest about what it is trying to be and the only caricatures are the ones created by the protagonist.

Having been subjected to a decade’s worth of forced-quirky indie bullshit like Garden State, Juno and Little Miss Sunshine, I noped out of this thing the second the little sister set off on her epic bike ride rescue mission. Which was what, the opening credits? I’ve sometimes pondered if I should go back and give it…

I know that’s where the criticism comes from, but I also think that people criticizing from that angle are asking for a fundamentally different movie. The whole point is that you’re locked into the experience of this one person. Wanting insight into Summer’s interior life is natural, but it’s also counter-productive (c…

All I really know about this movie is that seeing it in 2009 and realizing, first off, that I was a Tom, and second off, that I was currently in the middle of being just as selfish in how I related to the Summer of my then life, was one of the biggest steps forward in my own emotional development and willingness to…

I do love this movie a lot, and no matter how many times I read negative takes on it, whenever I watch it again they don’t really sway me. To me, the movie makes a clear case that Summer is a flawed person onto whom Tom projects a pretty dumb, simplified perfection. He’s doomed from the start and the fact that he…

I’m one of those Moby Dick people. Hey, Ishmael, tell me again how fucking huge a sperm whale is, I didn’t quite get it the last 40 times you talked about it. 

You know how I know you’re gay?

Technically, the proper noun should go first: “between Summer and him.”

I mean, you can argue whether or not the conceit justified itself, but that’s kind of like saying “if you take all the songs out of West Side Story there’s absolutely nothing interesting about it.”

Yeah, but every actress who auditioned for Autumn was a former girlfriend of Derek Jeter.

I graduated high school in 2011, so I was the exact right age to misread/idealize the relationship element of this movie when I saw it as a 14 year old. Now that I’m about the same age as Tom, I instead misread/idealize the concept that a disaffected 20-something can wake up one day and get his life together!

This was a movie that came around at just the right moment in my life. Saw myself in Tom and was able to get myself out of an unhealthy mindset when it came to relationships.

This movie punched me right in the gut when I first saw it, as I also had an ingenue that I was more worried about the idea of her than actually who she was. If I recall correctly, I think I even went as far as apologizing to her after this movie. 

I’ve read lot recently (what with 1999 week and all) about Fight Club, and now this, being ‘misinterpreted’.