Dad forbids his 14-year-old daughter from reading dystopian novel, scolds his 20-year-old niece for having it in her bedroom: ‘He said it was careless to leave something she is too young for out on the shelf’

I’ve never understood parents who heavily censor the content that their teenage children read. There’s a big difference between ensuring your 4th grader isn’t reading Danielle Steel novels and telling a kid who is Carrie’s age that «Carrie» by Stephen King isn’t appropriate for them. There are many worse things kids could be doing than …
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‘One More Game’: How ‘Squid Game’ Season 2 Hypnotizes Audiences by Toeing the Line Between Dystopia and an Entirely Plausible Modern Reality

What would you do for $38.5 million USD?  For those of us wallowing in the 99%, the prospect of earning millions of dollars by playing a few kid’s games would be hard to pass up. As we look up through a glass ceiling at the billionaire class, while they sip their champagne and enjoy the …
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How ‘Squid Game’ Season 2 Hypnotizes Audiences by Toeing the Line Between Dystopia and a Plausible Modern Reality

What would you do for $38.5 million USD?  For those of us wallowing in the 99%, the prospect of earning millions of dollars by playing a few kid’s games would be hard to pass up. As we look up through a glass ceiling at the billionaire class, while they sip their champagne and enjoy the …
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‘And we act surprised when 10 year olds are in Sephora’: TikToker promotes ‘anti-wrinkle straws’, gets roasted by the internet

Aging is a privilege that not everybody gets, and that’s just one of the reasons it’s so evil that many of us have been convinced that it’s the worst thing to ever happen to us. Unfortunately, it makes a privileged few a heck of a lot of money, so we live in a world where …
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‘Someone is recording them recording’: Family Gets Called Out For Filming New Mom and Baby on Phones, Sparks Debate About Recording Special Moments

Making memories is one of those Hallmark catchphrases that is genuinely very important. We wouldn’t love our family and friends like we do if we didn’t have the experiences to back it up. As a result, many people want to take photos on special occasions. The catch is that these days that goes hand in …
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Ridiculously Relatable Lamentations of 20+ ‘Things That Have Gotten Out of Hand’

The world is a crazy place– Some might even call it a dystopia. What a delightful age to be alive! It seems like the more people we have on this planet, the more likely we are to run into some wacky things. Humanity isn’t inherently bad, per se, but we are inherently cuckoo. So with …
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20+ Hunger Games Fans Share Their Unpopular Opinions About The Series

The Hunger Games is one of those fandoms that has been on the back burner for a while, but it’s starting to come back. Whether you read the books ten years ago or yesterday, you probably still have strong opinions about the series and its characters.  My hot take is that some Hunger Games fans …
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Hunger Games Fans Share Their Unpopular Opinions About The Series

The Hunger Games is one of those fandoms that has been on the back burner for a while, but it’s starting to come back. Whether you read the books ten years ago or yesterday, you probably still have strong opinions about the series and its characters.  My hot take is that some Hunger Games fans …
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Hunger Games Memes For Those Rewatching The Movies On Netflix

We’re amidst a Hunger Games revival, and that’s not an accident. The prequel to the trilogy, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, is getting its own movie adaptation in November, and the powers that be are making sure everybody is rewatching and rereading The Hunger Games series before it comes out. My entire TikTok feed …
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Hunger Games Memes For Everyone Rewatching The Movies On Netflix

We’re amidst a Hunger Games revival, and that’s not an accident. The prequel to the trilogy, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, is getting its own movie adaptation in November, and the powers that be are making sure everybody is rewatching and rereading The Hunger Games series before it comes out. My entire TikTok feed …
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