If we must insist on a gender binary, we cannot, cannot accept the “two genders” remaining “predator” and “prey.”

I'd be more open to scientology if they brainwashed their constitants to at least be open to public transit

the internet definitely has the most to do with this resurgence, and probably also because it has allowed for more immediacy in output tied with, specifically with musicians, ownership over output.

gossip is a kind of beast that its subjects are always ready and willing to quell, and our age has finally let them. The literary white men canon is full of catty callouts, mostly under the guise of satire like Dante with the inferno or Johnathan Swift with Gulliver's Travels.

The plot to this one is different, but no more filled with lazy tropes. These tropes are the ones that critics in 2025 are tired of, instead of the ones from 1982. That's the best part of watching this stuff from a nostalgic distance. Tron Ares is totally fine, hardly a disgrace to its predecessor

She's both given us a Greatest Hits run in the form of the Eras Tour, and given us a movement towards granular, story driven songwriting that holds in her latest edge of career.

For me, 'Life of a Showgirl' isn't going to be everything- that feel like the job of a teenage girl- but it's incredible the way in which she holds her own in the songwriting space into what is no longer anything resembling a rise.