Mothers Overreact to Disney’s Makeover Of Brave’s Merida


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I’ll never forget Disney’s movie Brave. Sure it was a good flick, empowering for women, and yadda yadda yadda. But mostly it’s so memorable because I took my two boys to see it in the theater when they were 5 and 3 and subsequently spent half of the film in the lobby with my youngest [...]

OMG OMG OMG: Gabourey Sidibe Joins ‘American Horror Story: Coven’


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Honestly, it’s like Ryan Murphy WANTS me to fucking hyperventilate every time I read his Twitter feed. First, we learned that Kathy Bates will face off against our Queen of Everything Jessica Lange and I just about FELL. OUT. Not to mention that most of our favorite AHS alumni will return for season three: Evan [...]

Female Sports Blogger Conducts Poll Asking If Cheerleader Is “Too Chunky”


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That’s Kelsey Williams up there. An absolutely gorgeous, fit, healthy, cheerleader. Shockingly, a CBS-Houston blogger decided to write a blog post pretty much calling Williams chunky. Outraged commenters called the article disgusting and it was quickly removed from CBS Houston’s website, but a cached version is still online. It reads, in part: “The Rockets looked [...]

Can Zach Braff Borrow Ten Bucks From You? He’d Like To Make A Movie


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Zach Braff would like to borrow $10 from you. Well, not “borrow”.  More like “have you give him, over at his Kickstarter page“. The writer/director and star of the Shins’ feature-length music video Garden State wants to make another movie. And he needs $10. From about 200,000 of you. Wait! Come back! You haven’t even [...]

Married, With Separate Bedrooms [Essay]


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Like most girls, when I was little I dreamed about the man I would marry. We’d be, like, so in love and we would have babies and I’d be a lawyer or author and we’d live happily ever after and not at all like my grandparents who bitched at each other all day then retired [...]