Just a tremendous comment. 

She’s over 40, female, and not white.

This is the kind of show that makes me wonder “what kind of person does Netflix think I am if it’s recommending that I watch this” while I binge-watch the whole thing in one setting, thinking “man, this is bad” while heating up a second bag of popcorn. See also: Emily in Paris.

Good/Acceptable. 

Then she’s probably happy to not be pigeonholed into one kind of character.

Her character in this has the kind of suburban lifestyle that Shaw on Person of Interest would have had nothing but contempt for 

I watched a couple of episodes of Sex/Life tonight. It makes The L Word look like Shakespeare.

I survived “The L Word” in its entirety, so I’ll say this isn’t the first time Shahi is let down by a script and production that is so enraptured by her virtually impossible beauty that it shortchanges her actual character and Shahi’s acting talent.

Anyway, how is your Sex/Life?

Shahi and Demos’ athleticism and enthusiasm

Just watched Luca, and while I agree that there’s a lot of queer subtext, I’m not sure it’s actually not just text. Luca and Alberto have the most convincing romance in any Pixar film to date. It’s a pre-teen, age-appropriate romance, but it’s exactly the dynamic that you’d get in a G-rated kids movie with an…

“città vuota” at the end of the film is a love song about two lovers kept apart... 

Part of me applauds obvious queer subtext in mainstream entertainment and part of me thinks it’s a cynical business decision, a way for studios to have their cake and eat it too by telling LGBTQ-friendly stories that give the product some edge and bring critical acclaim while maintaining plausible deniability.

Taking nothing away from Robeson’s story (because I think he’s in a different place).....Safechuck broke me. Like broke my heart. You can just see the trauma. 

Yeah, I don’t know how you can watch that documentary and not come away feeling like both of them (James Safechuck especially) were not abused.

I remember her talking about it a lot-and she was in a very abusive relationship as well. But back then no one believed her, they thought she was speaking out for attention because Janet and Michael were more famous than her. It’s such a shame.

This is sticky. From the 1in6 site (#7 myth):

This, all of this. What I took away was how good he was at abusing these boys (and who knows how many others), how organized, how experienced and skillful. Michael Jackson was Pedophilia LLC, he was the IBM of abuse. He was a child abusing machine, from the love-bomb beginning to the “don’t cross me” end. Back in the…

This could have been written so carelessly, but I feel like you really honored the discussion, and highlighted some important things. And it feels like a piece that honors survivors. I’m sitting here welling up because it’s so important. Childhood sexual abuse is so common, and the best thing we can do is train our…