Legendary actress Jane Fonda has been very vocal in recent years on the importance of female friendships. In 2024, she said, ‘Women’s friendships are very different from men’s friendships. And they’re very important to our health. Because you guys, you kind of sit side by side and watch sports or cars or women. Women sit facing each other eye to eye, and they say, ‘I’m in trouble. I need you. Can you help me?’ We are not afraid of being vulnerable.’ Her husband, Ted Turner once said to her that he figured women didn’t make friends past 60, to which she said he was really wrong. She continued, ‘What you have to do is you have to be intentional. Like, I never used to be intentional. I would meet Sally Field, for example, but not pursue – well I did pursue you. You have to pursue people that you want to be friends with. And you have to say, ‘I’m intentionally wanting to be your friend.’ And it works. People hear that and then stick around, and you develop new friendships.’ Here, we take things into perspective and take a deep dive into Taylor Swift’s many friendships, including with the likes of Sabrina Carpenter, Gracie Abrams, And Jamie King. We particularly explain the underlying necessity of age-gap friendships by exploring Kourtney Kardashian’s friendship with Addison Rae. And we compare them to the likes of friendships with people closer to our own age group. Let’s discuss…
Tag: Movies
Alex Rose: All The Things About Her That Make Her So Relatable – And The One Single Change ‘The Life List’ Could’ve Made To Make It Even Better
‘The Life List’ is a newly released Netflix film based on the 2013 novel of the same name by Lori Nelson Spielman. It stars former Disney starlet Sofia Carson as Alex Rose, and Connie Britton as her deceased mother. Alex is introduced as very much lost in her life. She’s not happy at where she is, and feels stuck. And then her mother dies of cancer. She’s lost in her grief, but she becomes even more devastated when she finds out she won’t be getting an inheritance, but a DVD instead. Alex then realizes that her mother left her to complete a ‘Life List’ that she jotted down when she was just 13 years old, and to find out what her actual inheritance is, she must complete everything on the list. She’s hesitant at first, but decides to go ahead and do it. And in the process, she learns more about herself than she ever signed up for. Here, we break down ‘The Life List’ to its entirety. We explore the one single thing filmmakers could’ve done differently to make the movie even better. And we give a thorough insight of Alex Rose herself, and how there’s actually an Alex Rose in all of us. As Sofia Carson herself said, ‘I just felt like I had been Alex Rose, and more so that we’ve all been Alex Rose at one point in our lives. Like, alive, but not living. And she awakened something in me. And I think that’s what we hope this film will do to you when you watch it. It kind of awakens us to life again in a really simple but powerful way.’ Let’s discuss…
Ingrid Santa Rita: Getting To Understand The History And The Legality Of Marital Rape Through Her Journey On ‘Love Is Blind Brazil’ – And What We Can Do To Help Protect Women Going Forward
Ingrid Santa Rita was a contestant looking for love on season 4 of ‘Love Is Blind Brazil’ after she’d endured much turmoil in her life from a very young age, having given birth to her first daughter at age 13. She thought she found it in Leandro. The two got married at the end of their run, and we all thought she found her ‘happily-ever-after’. At the reunion, we found out that it wasn’t all rainbows and sunshine for the couple, and that the two ended up divorcing. But not only did they divorce, there was marital rape involved too, with Leandro sexually assaulting Ingrid several times throughout the marriage, and even going as far as raping her in her sleep. Here, we break down the entire history of marital rape and how it came to be a legal matter in the 1990’s. We explain marital rape through the eyes and perspective of Colleen Hoover and her ‘It Ends With Us’ character, Lily Bloom. We explore how ‘Love Is Blind Brazil failed Ingrid and fellow domestic violence survivors. And finally, we empathize what companies can do to protect women working for them from violence in the workplace to make sure that no woman ever has to go through what Ingrid Santa Rita had to go through during her time of employment at ‘Love Is Blind Brazil’. Let’s discuss…
Jessica Simpson: How She Was Failed By (Quite Literally) Every Man In Her Life And Career – And How She Finally Got Her Sparkle Back
Jessica Simpson was a pop diva in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. Though she wasn’t the Princess of Pop like Britney was by any means, she still made a name for herself with everything she’d brought to the table during that time. This included her reality show with ember ex-husband, Nick Lachey. They starred together in their own reality hit reality series, ‘Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica’, between 2003 and 2005. The show was groundbreaking, and so was their marriage. I think every little girl who was a fan of Jessica Simpson looked up to her marriage, and looked at their marriage as something they aspired to have for themselves. Simpson was a role model. And unlike Britney Spears, she did, in fact, stay a virgin until marriage. She told People at the time, ‘My virginity is something I stand strong in. It’s not always easy. But I do respect it. Virginity can be cool and sexy.’ Their marriage, however, wasn’t cool and sexy whatsoever. Here, we break down Jessica’s entire relationship with Nick, and describe how his ego got in the way of their marriage, and how he’s still using her as a weapon almost 20 years after their divorce. We explore how Jessica was failed by not only Nick, but (quite literally) by every man she’d ever encountered in her life and career, including her own father and her soon-to-be ex-husband, Eric Johnson. We then analyze the body-shaming she’d endured during the late 2000’s and early 2010’s, as well as her alcoholism. And finally, we explain what her recent return to music means to women everywhere. Let’s discuss…