Breaking up with someone is never easy. Even when it’s a break up that had to happen, you’re going to end up with complicated feelings towards your ex. No matter how bad the relationship was – or how badly it ended – it’s natural that you’d have questions and doubts. You may wonder if you did…
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Paging Dr. NerdLove Episode #44 – How Pop Culture Ruins Romance
One of the long and ongoing themes of the letters I get from my readers is “I thought this is what relationships were supposed to be like”, or “Why doesn’t this situation play out like I expect?” Other times it’s “Well, I already know that I can’t do this thing because it would never work,…
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Pacific Rim and Lessons in Positive Masculinity
This week, we’re returning to the subject of Nerd Role Models, where we examine some of the most popular characters in pop-culture and what you can learn from them. After last week’s discussion about reclaiming what it means to be a man from the restrictions of toxic masculinity, it’s time to look at a movie…
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Fifty Shades of Rape Culture
So everyone ready for another hot take on 50 Shades? As I mentioned last week, I went to a press screening for 50 Shades of Grey to do a review with the Unusual Suspects at OneOfUs.net. Spoiler alert: it bored the ever-loving piss out of me. But while the movie toned down the more obvious rape-y aspects…
Learn From This: Don Jon
Normally I prefer not to do “Learn From This” articles on movies that are currently in the theater. To start with, it’s a lot harder for me to take notes (or make trenchant commentary) without annoying the piss out of everyone around me. For another… frankly, throwing up the odd Amazon affiliate link for the…
Learn From This: The Great Gatsby
I’ve been meaning to do a Learn From This for The Great Gatsby for a while now. I’m an unabashed Baz Luhrmann fan, and there really wasn’t a director I could think of who was better suited stylistically to match the opulence, excesses, vacuousness and conspicuous consumption of the Hamptons in the Jazz Age. While…