Mocking People Who Have Had Plastic Surgery and Other Cosmetic Procedures is a Form of Body Shaming

It seems every time that Madonna appears without the very filters she’s mocked for using, she ends up subsequently being mocked tenfold for not using [Read More…]

Cold War Stereotypes Renewed: GLOW and the Russian Supervillain

American pop culture has always had a “ready-made” villain in the form of Russians (“those dirty Russians,” “fucking Russians,” etc.). Even as freshly as 2018’s [Read More…]

Anna Delvey: Another Bane for Millennial Representation That Reminds People How Much They Still Think Said Generation is “Worse” (Read: More Entitled) Than Gen Z

Because one of the most emblematic things of the millennial generation is pop culture-oriented retromania, it’s no wonder that the story of Anna Delvey, not [Read More…]

Betty Broderick and Patrizia Reggiani: Two Similarly Motivated Women When It Came to Killing Their Husbands, With the Former Being Portrayed as More Empathetic

As everyone continues to praise Lady Gaga for her horrendous accent in House of Gucci, there’s something else in her performance that audiences have unwittingly [Read More…]

American “Independence”: The Laughable-On-Many-Levels Theme of the Met Gala

Maybe because when one is rich/a celebrity and independence feels inherently natural, it might prove something of a challenge to imagine a world in which [Read More…]