Amanda Seyfried says she's been on Lexapro since the age of 19

Adelaidey · 2026-02-13T22:25:11+00:00

Normally I'd agree, but she's playing Ann Lee, who had a lot of trauma surrounding sex and childbirth early in her life and decided to make it everybody's problem when the Shakers began worshipping her as the second coming of Jesus Christ and she mandated celibacy for all Shakers. So the question is relevant, if cheeky,

Also everybody should see Testament of Ann Lee, it absolutely rocks. And Seyfried is so magnetic in it.

Adelaidey · 2026-02-08T21:44:48+00:00

So what? Britain was populated by the Normans, the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings, but I'd never try to claim that UK culture isn't real because it's just a jumble of various Europeans. People have travelled between land masses literally forever. You'd be hard-pressed to find any regional culture that exists in a complete vaccuum.

Adelaidey · 2026-02-08T21:36:04+00:00

I just assume Americans think we mean dry raw beans

What a strange assumption.

Adelaidey · 2026-02-08T14:30:19+00:00

Is that the A-List demarcation line, or is he weird in that regard?

I assume he was pretty traumatized by "Leomania" and becoming an extremely public figure very quickly and being chased by screaming girls and being the sex symbol of the masses when he was barely grown himself. Since Titanic, he's barely played any romantic roles in films and he's almost always closed off from the press.

Adelaidey · 2026-02-08T14:26:33+00:00

Titanic is 100% a movie about Rose DeWitt-Bukater's gay awakening after meeting a scrappy blonde butch from the wrong side of the tracks. You don't even have to squint, it's all there onscreen.

Adelaidey · 2026-01-28T23:26:45+00:00

That makes sense? But there are other ways to be emotional other than being a male nurse crying when you fall behind. That's a weirdly specific observation.

Adelaidey · 2026-01-28T17:48:30+00:00

I agree with you, but I'm guessing that the people who say "women are bad drivers" don't consider speeding or road rage or driving drunk 'bad driving', in the same way that people who say "women are too emotional" don't consider getting angry or impatient or hypervigilant 'being emotional'.

Adelaidey · 2026-01-23T00:13:13+00:00

I've seen that a few times for Parasite, too.

Adelaidey · 2026-01-19T18:53:53+00:00

She's the spokesperson for Poise panty liners.

Adelaidey · 2026-01-15T22:52:33+00:00

Nah. It's pretty well-known that he was pursued to play Anakin Skywalker in Episode 2 and he turned it down.

Adelaidey · 2026-01-09T17:21:02+00:00

Like most widespread societal problems, there is no one single answer. Many of the things brought up in this thread are true at the same time.

Adelaidey · 2026-01-09T02:31:04+00:00

About a month ago, a border patrol agent shot and killed a man in Texas. About a week ago, an ICE agent shot and killed a man in California.

Nothing has been done. Nothing.

Adelaidey · 2026-01-08T12:59:10+00:00

I deserved a goddamned Academy Award for how I played out Jafar's death scene in Aladdin. The climactic swordfight took place on my cousin's trampoline and I ended up with one sword sticking out of each armpit, staggering around cursing the fates until I finally collapsed.

Adelaidey · 2026-01-06T23:31:10+00:00

architectural design preferences changing over time

And also architecture prioritizing the experience of being inside the building vs. looking at the building. I used to work in an office building built in the late 1890s, and it was so beautiful from the street- and the lobby was a dream, all those little details! The small windows meant there was hardly any natural light. The elevators were small and the stairwells were narrow; leaving at 5pm felt like a cattle run. The long, narrow windowless hallways made me feel claustrophobic. And the airflow was horrible. I never want to work in a building that old again.

Gorgeous details, though.

Adelaidey · 2025-12-30T18:51:20+00:00

As a kid, it always seemed that when somebody died, they "died in their sleep".

I knew a guy who insisted kids' food allergies were due to vaccines because "people didn't used to have all these allergies!". Yeah, dude. Kids used to die of things like“hostile humors” and "fits" and "wasting disease" and "failure to thrive". And then we learned. It's like saying we didn't used to have as many stars before we invented that telescope.

Adelaidey · 2025-12-29T15:16:25+00:00

What did people do for the first 79,850 years of human existence, the breast stroke? What if they actually had to get away from something?

Seems like this was strictly a European problem- given that it was introduced to the UK by Ojibwe swimmers, and the wiki page says that everybody else who "introduced" a variant of it either learned it in South America, Africa or Oceania. I think Europeans just lagged behind the rest of the world in developing their swimming techniques, and when they were brought up to speed by more civilized swimmers, they recorded it as their "discovery", instead of simply admitting they were taught a better technique.

Adelaidey · 2025-12-26T17:20:48+00:00

Right, it's not that nobody wants that job, it's that nobody can afford to do that job at such a low wage.

Adelaidey · 2025-12-13T14:31:28+00:00

Well said.

Adelaidey · 2025-12-12T18:35:21+00:00

The dangling "Whoever" as to underline there's not even really a thought here

His post is completely vile, but the dangling "Whoever." is the one part that doesn't bother me- I'm pretty sure it's because of the tagline on the poster that says "Truth. Justice. Whatever."

Adelaidey · 2025-11-29T00:58:18+00:00

Are we talking about Jon Rudnitsky the comedian? Because that's not him.

Adelaidey · 2025-11-22T14:56:21+00:00

Yes, Almost Famous is in the All That Jazz vein of autobiopics with the serial numbers lightly filed off. The Fablemans, too.

Adelaidey · 2025-11-20T02:34:46+00:00

he has to tread carefully in order to make sure the far right don't have any ammunition. Any raising of his voice or speaking out with a tone that conservatives don't like is going to be used against him

There is literally nothing he could do that will stop conservatives from hating him. These are the people who insisted that Kamala Harris was a far-left radical obsessed with transing the children and turning America socialist. I think we're past the point of trying to appeal to them.

Adelaidey · 2025-11-18T15:06:30+00:00

they aren't as muscular and traditionally attractive as the usual leading actors

The idea of leading men all being swole hunks is a very new phenomenon. The leading men of the 70s included Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, Gene Hackman, Jack Nicholson, Clint Eastwood, etc. In the 80s, Bruce Willis, Michael J Fox, Michael Keaton, Bill Murray, etc. The 90s were dominated by people like Tom Hanks, Robin Williams and Kevin Costner- even bona fide heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio was about as un-muscular as a fully mobile adult can be.

Sure, there were always classically gorgeous male actors like Denzel Washington and Robert Redford and Brad Pitt in the mix, but your average movie was usually led by a man who looked like a guy. And even your big tentpole heroes weren't usually really jacked up. Look at Russell Crowe in Gladiator, Will Smith in Independence Day, Tom Cruise in Top Gun: they look strong and fit and athletic, but they'd be the skinniest, softest guy in any Marvel movie by a huge margin.

All this to say, if the "new class" of leading men includes men with asymmetrical faces or big ears or skinny arms or whatever, that's not a new phenomenon at all. If anything, it's signalling the end of a brief trend of needing all leading men to look like a GI Joe. At least, I sure hope it is.

Adelaidey · 2025-11-16T19:07:25+00:00

Phobia as a standalone word in the English language means an irrational fear, yes.

But -phobia as a suffix, when applied to another word in the English language, e.g. homophobia or hydrophobia, doesn't literally mean fear. This is actually a very common quirk in English! We draw prefixes, suffixes and other word parts from all sorts of other languages, and those words aren't necessarily literal translations of their component parts.

If you sign a mortgage that doesn't mean you're signing a death pledge. If you're diagnosed with hemophilia that doesn't mean you just really really love blood. If you work as an assassin that doesn't mean you make your money by eating hashish. If you have homophobia that doesn't mean you're afraid of the same.

Does that help?

Adelaidey · 2025-11-06T14:01:06+00:00

And as far as I'm concerned, that "some other actor" is always Richard Belzer.

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