Editorial

We’ve got a lot of opinions. Take them or leave them – but the opinions remain… ours.

History Has Words For This

“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.” ¬ Hitler History has words for what has happened to our country. History is marked by the rise of mediocre men yearning for power…

Frequency: The Art of Appreciating What You Have

I came into Frequency totally unprepared. I’d never seen the movie that inspired it, didn’t know any of the actors, and was totally devoid of 90’s nostalgia – or so I thought. My only interest in the show, and in…

My Giant Love/Hate Letter to The Walking Dead

Beware MAJOR Walking Dead spoilers ahead… The Walking Dead is my favorite show to say the very least. Anyone who holds a conversation with me longer than five minutes will learn this very quickly. My love for this show defies anyone’s…

Rape is Not Your Plaything – How TV Contributes to Rape Culture

Let’s talk about consent. More to the point, let’s talk about consent and rape as it is portrayed in media. Rape has come into the spotlight several times in big ways this past year – mainly in the awful stories…

Women and sports: From myth to reality

Women only watch sports to please their father/boyfriend/husband/friends. Or, alternatively, they watch to check out the hot guys in tight uniforms. They don’t understand what’s going on. What’s more, they don’t even care. Sports are a guy thing. I’ve heard…

How to Deal with a Man Who Tries to Talk to You While You’re Wearing Headphones

There is no animal more ridiculous than a man who feels he may very well not be the center of the universe. Being ignored is a sad state for many of these fickle creatures – for when you aren’t paying…

Love, Feminism and Fandoms

Ah, the tricky matter of love. In real life, we all aspire to find that one person who, in the romantic tradition of Jerry Maguire, “completes us.” And yet, it’s not that we’re incomplete without a significant other, no. It’s…

Shadowhunters: Our 12 Hopes for Season 2

As avid fans of Cassandra Clare’s The Mortal Instruments, we’ve been missing the lovable cast of Freeform’s Shadowhunters following its first season finale. Luckily Freeform saw potential in the show and answered fans’ desires to bring Shadowhunters back for a…

What’s in a Block? (Top Five Twitter Rules for Talking to Famous People)

I have seen it said a lot that Twitter belongs to the regular folks, the people who search for endless entertainment between the porn bots and the people begging for followers. Twitter has a lot of problems, primarily in taking harassment…

Shadowhunters Got It Right With Simon

Of all the characters in the Mortal Instruments series, Simon is probably the one that translates best to screen. He’s funny, nerdy, relatable, and the one guy who seems to realize how absolutely crazy (and awesome) his situation is. He…