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Helena knows exactly how to play up how people see her, with her frizzy blonde hair and consumptive red eyes. She knows that everyone is just waiting for her to snap, and so she plans her escape around those exact expectations. It’s just another example of how everyone around Helena constantly underestimates her, when she may just be the smartest one of them all.
My A.V. Club review: Orphan Black: “Newer Elements Of Our Defense” · TV Club
It would be easy to categorize the burgeoning older sister/little sister movement as a trend, but the sheer depth of content reveals it to be far more complex. This booming culture of mentorship is a movement. It's pushing back against the people endlessly advertising products to young girls while simultaneously mocking them. The women who devote themselves to building younger girls up put power back in these teens’ hands by insisting that they are worthy of wielding it. After years of being derided as silly, teenage girls are not only being taken seriously, but are openly, collectively being looked out for.
My latest for The Atlantic is super close to my heart: How Amy Schumer and Grace Helbig Embody the Growing Movement of the 'Awkward Older Sister'
Top 14 Quotes from The Hollywood Reporter's Kyle Chandler Profile, From Pretty Upsetting to DEAR GOD YOU'VE RUINED IT FOR EVERYONE
14. "It's half past three on the first Thursday of February, and we seem to have exhausted Chandler's enthusiasm for talking about himself. We've been on the topic for the better part of two hours, ever sincehe blew into The Driskill hotel and suggested we bag our lunch plans and head to the bar: "You didn't want to eat, did ya?""
13. ""Lemme think," he says, pulling an iPhone from his wrinkled khakis. He tries a local dive he's hoping has live music. "Not 'til 6:30," says a voice on the other end of the line."
12. "We arrive just in time for happy hour and snag a seat at the bar, where the bartender is happy to see him. Chandler has a dozen oysters and a cold beer; I order the tuna tartare and nurse a Stella."
11. "Chandler stepped up as a leader on Bloodline's Islamorada, Fla., set, just as he had on FNL. He'd host big parties at a house he'd rented on the beach, and invite everyone out on his brother's boat."
10. "'"He's a 'yes, ma'am,' 'yes, sir,' 'thank you please' kind of guy. He was raised a good Southern boy.'"
9. "He thinks stage acting would be interesting, and he's desperate to do a comedy."
8. "We talk some more, about books we're reading (he's loving Rory MacLean's Berlin), TV shows we watch (he's a Game of Thrones fan) and parts of the world we still want to see (he and [his wife] have been talking about Spain)."
7. "Chandler unlocks the passenger door of his new Mustang GT, which he's parked in a lot down the street from The Driskill, and tosses his daughter's chess set into the backseat so that I can slip in. Bob Dylan sings through the speakers as we drive to Perla's."
6. "He's not that guy who's going to sit down on Sunday and watch eight hours of football," says Taylor Kitsch, with whom he bonded during long motorcycle rides."
5. "He's hard at work on a Boston accent."
4. "'"I was extremely hung over, and I had smoked, like, 20 cigars — it was either my birthday or someone else's birthday, but it was a big bash — and I hadn't shaved or probably showered in a few days," he tells me. "So I show up on my motorcycle, probably late...'"
3. "The motorcycle habit continues, and so do the birthday bashes, the cigars and the booze. But he's turned that love of risk-taking to more productive ends, too, including a side gig as a volunteer fireman."
2. "He runs his hands through his thick black hair, still thinking, and then he's got it. "How's this," he says, his Southern drawl tippling with excitement: "We go to Perla's for some oysters and a beer, then we stop by The Continental Club for a quick shot, then I'll take you to the airport.""
1. "When I ask what ultimately snapped him out of [his dark period], his square jaw loosens into a smile. "It's still fun to take chances and do things you're not supposed to do," he says, adding coyly as I press for details: "Things that I shouldn't mention on this recording, things that are bad enough that I don't want to talk about it in the public eye.""
this started off as a joke text to @kaylakumari but ended up as an a+ picture to explain shitty 2014 trends to my kids someday
current theory: los angeles is currently being burned alive under a vengeful giant's magnifying glass
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On Writing While Female, Race, and The Commenters
About a week ago, my A.V. Club editor and friend Sonia got a world of shit in the comments section of a review, and it got shut down. It wasn't the first time the comments got nasty towards her, or even the third, or the fifth...at this point, getting a world of shit is just part of her reviewing routine now, and it's horrifying. It's one thing if said shit is limited to factual inaccuracies, or reasoned disagreements, but the criticism lobbed Sonia's way has taken a wicked turn towards kneejerk misogyny and discomfort with racial analysis. Again, it's one thing to disagree with someone. It's another thing entirely to dismiss someone just because they tend to approach criticism with a socio-political lens.
When I waded into a comment thread about the whole thing, people were talking about whether it was fair to say Sonia got more flak because she's a woman. Some agreed she did, but more pointed out that they hadn't seen other women critics on the site get as much shit. Some gave examples of the female critics with tame comments section, and wow was it telling. Sure, Sonia and LaToya have been getting shit, they said, but not Carrie or "the Carolines" (i.e. Siede and I). It's hilarious/sad to me that no one got the obvious there. Of course Carrie and the Carolines haven't gotten as much grief -- we have Anglo names and Sonia and LaToya don't.
Even if it's subconscious, that shit definitely, unfortunately matters.
It made me wonder what my comment sections would look like if instead of my dad's German name, I used my mother's Persian one. If I wrote the same exact reviews, would the criticism coming my way be as levelheaded as it generally has been? My Orphan Black and Reign reviews include feminist commentary more often than not, and while I got the occasional troll, I've never gotten nearly as much vitriol as Sonia or LaToya. Yeah, I tend to write about shows with more female-leaning audiences, or at least ones that are more receptive to hearing feminist angles. But if I'm being honest with myself, I know why my comments are less hostile than Sonia's, and LaToya's, and even Kayla's. If I wrote as Caroline Darya-Bandari instead of Caroline Framke, I would absolutely 100% for sure get a world of shit.
This isn't the first time I've felt like a Middle-Eastern Trojan horse of sorts. My Persian/Armenian middle names are sandwiched in between my Anglo ones, like ethnic asterisks. I have a middle initial on Facebook and my personal email, just waiting for someone to ask about it. Barely a week goes by without someone questioning my paler skin and my thick, dark eyebrows -- "Italian? Spanish?" -- and then I watch them mentally readjust when I tell them that I'm half Iranian/Armenian.
It's an undeniable privilege that my Middle Eastern heritage gets to hide under my name and my ambiguous face, and sometimes the fact that that invisibility's a privilege makes me so uncomfortable that I don't know what to do with myself. Sometimes it makes me feel like I'm sneaking around, like I'm taking the easier way out by emphasizing my dad's European ancestry, even though it wasn't my choice. Sometimes it makes me grateful I don't register as a Woman of Color because God would it be harder, and the thought's immediately just disgusting,
because I know I'm right.
10:01: sex TWO MINUTES LATER: food
really makes you wonder why he reserved six and a half hours for sex at 3:30 like who are you kidding bro we all know about your morning
i finally found true love and it's a $65 sweatshirt life is a joke
the shrine 🙏
Since going on break and getting super sick = so very much time spent watching old seasons of Top Chef on Hulu, I've devoted some serious effort to ignoring the same set of four commercials. I'm pretty good at ignoring things -- the pile of shoes by my door, Britta filters, myself when I say "I'll just have one beer tonight" -- but when this commercial came on, it managed to catch my attention.
Now, the Best Friends Animal Society sounds like a warm and fuzzy org. I mean, it has "Best Friends" right in the title! But this commercial is a horrifying study in sexual harassment creeping and it can go eat a bag of dicks.
The ad shows a dad and daughter taking a stroll around the neighborhood. She looks to be about eleven years-old. As they walk, they keep getting interrupted by teenage boys, whose heads whip around the second this girl approaches. They make a break for the sidewalk and smack themselves against their windows in their hurry to ask what she's doing, where she's going, what's going on hey she's pretty!!! Finally, the dad just shakes his head, looks down at his tiny daughter with an amused smile, and says, "guess it's about time to get you fixed, sweetie." Get it? They were dogs all along!!
It's not that spaying awareness is a bad thing or whatever. I have literally zero opinions on that front. It's just that this is the fucking creepiest thing I've seen in a long, long, looOoooOooong time. Horny boys are launching their frantic bodies at this dude's pre-teen daughter and his response is, "we have got to crush this inappropriate sex vibe of yours." Wouldn't it have been a thousand times more effective if this commercial had ended with that coming from the owners of the sex-crazed boys/dogs? Why is the girl the only one in this commercial without a single line of dialogue? Don't people realize that when we complain about normalized sexual harassment and rape culture and how hard it is being a woman -- or a pre-teen girl -- in this world it's because shit like this can get through who knows how many people without raising any kind of "this feels messed up" red flags? Does anyone have any tips for how I can stop my skin crawling clear off my body????!
"Top Chef Duels will have nine chefs battling it out in the finale for the title of Top…Dueler, I guess? Anyway, Top Chef Duels is a hyperactive version of All Stars that believes wearing a mask will render it completely unrecognizable, despite the fact that obscuring its eyes doesn’t mean we can’t still see its entire face." (via Top Chef Duels: “Richard Blais vs Marcel Vigneron” · TV Club · The A.V. Club)
"Good Doctor, Bad Habits" is a pretty cool tagline for EVERY SINGLE DOCTOR SHOW THAT'S EVER BEEN ON TELEVISION
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got some real thinking to do about my favorite things