Gawd bless Seth. He's a speaker of truths. Y'all might recall -- and if you don't it's an easy Google search -- that when Seth appeared in front of a Federal committee (2014) to speak about Alzheimer's research and funding, he drew attention by calling out the names of the 16 members who either hadn't shown up at all or left before he finished. He's not just funny and smart, he's as deeply honest as they come, and direct. Attributes sorely needed right now. Be a Seth Rogan indeed.
It is so apropos to me that you wrote about continuing to speak up. I have felt defeated this week and unsure how to proceed. When I opened my email this morning, one of my reps is finally doing a town hall. So this week, I release that defeat and step into action in any way. I am going to that town hall.
Thank you again for sharing so much of yourself with us. I find this community filled with possibility.
Sending love, strength, hope, and possibility out to all of you.
Just recently, I was marveling at Seth Rogan’s journey from type-cast stoner bro to boundary pushing writer/director/entrepreneur. He is a gift to society and I LOVE that he is using his platform to say what others are too scared to say. Like you said, I hope it inspires others to do the same.
I love this post, Amber. As always, I'm with you on all of it. 🩷 I cannot imagine having so much in my bank account and choosing not to bring good into the world with it. Performative feminism is extremely unhelpful. My heart continues to break over the news every day.
I'm working up my yearly sinus infection this weekend. Every year, when Spring makes everything beautiful, I can't enjoy it because I feel awful. I'm choosing to love it this year anyway. Our backyard is gorgeous, full of birds and buds. Our grass has come in and the yard is a beautiful shade of green again. I need this joy. So I'm choosing it. 🩷
Thank you so much for this. I am finding (some) comfort that others are deeply horrified by the faux feminism and shocking greed of these people who are destroying the pillars of decency, all to have more attention. And thank you for highlighting Seth Rogan's stand. More people (the good neighbors, the artists, the whistleblowers, the journalists) speaking truth to power - again and again - will be the thing that saves us... it is the only thing that ever has.
When you've lost Wendy's and Amber Tamblyn, two national treasures...
I'm going to Colorado tonight, which great, but it means I have to let go of a lot of past trauma/bad things family/friends have done to me that I associate with Colorado, which is challenging. I'm hoping I have enough distractions to keep me occupied.
I'm going to three Braves games, so hopefully I spend my time being pissed about the Braves instead of being pissed about the past.
Now that I’ve unclenched my teeth at this madness from a couple fellow females (and thank you for sharing this post🥰)…I can speak. 🗣️
What I want to let go of this week is my resistance to being tested. From being tested in school, to tested in hospitals to tested in life…I’ve only ever dreaded being tested. GOOD GOD, I COULD FAIL!! I COULD GET BAD NEWS!!! I COULD LOSE A RELATIONSHIP!!! I COULD SEE AWFUL THINGS HAPPENING!!😱
I have sooooo got it all wrong.
What if I PASS?
What if I get bad news, and then learn how to get better?
What if that relationship needs to be lost?
What if I get involved…and shout…and fight?!
Indeed (albeit cliché)…what if…I fly? 🕊️
Again, maybe variations on the theme of me, but then what else do I truly know?😊
All my love to you, Amber and LITD Fam. See you tomorrow, eh?🫶🏼
On April 21st, i unofficially said goodbye to my A2 level in German (Tomorrow, i'm gonna officially do so). Today, i said goodbye to my old clothes because i bought two beautiful new ones (They're both green, but one of them is lighter than the other).
Hello Amber, big fan! I don't live in the US and I can see how part of the american society is creating a bigger and more fierce opposition to Trump, yet in my country the protests and activism against his actions doesn't get too much attention on mainstream media news and generally focus on sensacionalist headlines and talks. This also happens in the mainstream news in the US?
He stars in misogynistic movies which mock women, including one with former child actress Chloe Grace Moretz: when I first heard of her in 2010 (I was 14 at the time) I did not like hearing she played a foul mouthed heroine who unleashed violence, and I did NOT like the Daily Express (which hypocritically is supposed to be about family values and is also homophobic) praising it. (Later that year, I did not like it praising "Easy A" or acting like 3D is the best part of a film.) I was a spoiled, whining brat who blamed everyone but myself for my problems, but I had a STRONG respect for authority, and I never liked hype. I never liked people praising how great Justin Bieber or Katy Perry were (the fact the bullies at school liked him was part of the reason for my dislike) and I didn't like the obsession with Twilight, James Cameron's Avatar, and to a lesser extent Harry Potter (I used to be a Harry Potter fan, but I was never a Potterhead). I later found out that year that she was going to be in "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" which was based on a chapter book which promoted Hollywood stereotypes about teenagers: like her appearance in "Kick-Ass" I knew it was misogynistic, as the joke was the female character was aggressive even though misogynists think women are helpless. In 2013 I was on "Know Your Meme" (I hate that website) and I discovered the "Keep Calm and Drink Tea" for "Tea Tuesdays" at my high school (which I first found out about in 2012) originated from "Keep Calm And Carry On" which I found disrespectful to the veterans, and I got more stressed out when I discovered a "Keep Calm and Carrie On" image macro in the comments advertising the 2013 movie "Carrie": I realized in mid-2010 that the 1978 "Carrie" was an obvious metaphor for a school shooting.
When I saw the CBC talk about the 2013 "Carrie" the next day, my stress level returned: learning earlier that year about "Kick-Ass 2" also stressed me out. Hearing that Chloe Moretz was in "The Equalizer" and had abandoned her Hispanic name in favour of "Grace" thus being a worthless stooge of Anglos (I do NOT like sellouts or tokens) again caused me stress, and the fact she appeared in the movie as a child prostitute WITH HALF HER HEAD shaved disturbed me greatly (years later I learned this hairstyle was referenced on such things as "The Simpsons" episode "Bart vs. Itchy and Scratchy" and the "American Dad" episode "LGBSteve). Then I read a MSN article saying "13 Pictures That Show Chole Grace Moretz is the new Angelina Jolie," a woman I disliked for being an adulteress just like Brad Pitt and not knowing ANYTHING about mothering or marriage yet publishing a book on it. I learned
Moretz had starred in the 2005 "The Amityville Horror" based on the hoax which helped
cause the United States to be obsessed with the paranormal: i.e. obsessed with
pseudoscience that makes cryptozoology and UFOs look sane (I was also stressed that she abandoned her identity by becoming a blonde: I would call her a coconut but Hispanos are not brown). The next year in "Film Studies" class I learned she was in the 2010 movie "Let Me In" as the vampire: when I heard about it in 2010, the "Romeo and Juliet" motif in the film was pretty stupid since the main characters in the film were 12.
Her being in "The Amityville Horror" and "Let Me In" both caused me stress, and I was also stressed out by her being in the 2014 "If I Stay" in which she retained her Uncle Tom blondeness: she has sadly retained this to this day. In 2014 I heard about the first "Sorority" movie and it seemed rude and obnoxious, promoting teenage stereotypes. I first heard of Seth Rogen in 2012 when I learned about "Knocked Up" and judging by the title it sounded like misogynistic trash. In 2013 he had the misogynistic and racist "The Interview" which had a deleted scene involving a same sex orgy (in reality North Korea is homophobic, which shows how bigoted Hollywood is and how ignorant it pretends to be) which had the CIA violate another country's sovereignty even though if a foreign country made a film about assassinating a U.S president there would be outrage: indeed, there was outrage when the Dixie Chicks said "I'm ashamed George Bush is from Texas" which destroyed their careers, and when "Death of a President" came out. When Kathy Griffin made a fake head of Trump - which I found milquetoast: I was more bothered by Kathy's makeup - she was cancelled, including by the white moderate Women's March. In 2016 I learned school shooters had been inspired by Seth Rogen's misogynistic films.
In 2017 I learned about "Neighbours 2" starring Chloe Grace Moretz and I figured it would be a stupid sex comedy, and in 2020 I saw a TV spot for "Neighbours 2" with Moretz in her underwear and that repulsed me; in January I had heard that Moretz had spoken about how she was sexualized at 14, but I was too uncomfortable to watch it. The next year I had learned Seth Rogen had been mocked by Family Guy back in 2009 for being unfunny, and that was cathartic to me. However in 2023 I learned my intrusive thoughts about Moretz being the clone baby in "American Dad" were correct, the clone ending up as a dodo hybrid which Steve killed. In late 2023 when "The Equalizer" was on I talked about the sexualization and immorality, and my mother irritatedly dismissed it. She could have been a lawyer, but instead she is a health assistant with a Mickey Mouse degree and is frivolous; I have seen child stars in the media have unpleasant existences, like Miley Cyrus and Britney Spears, and for me Moretz and Ariel Winter and such appear to be like how Alan Moore described a child stolen by Gypsies and every so often you get photographs of the child working as a prostitute.
Katy Perry sexualizes women in the Miley Cyrus way - cream coming out of her bra in 2011 and a 2011 poster saying "Katy Perry's Got Ditties - disrespected Western militaries and Second World War veterans in "Part of Me" and likes the pseudoscientific "red mercury," white supremacist, anti-Semitic, eugenicist (the first season had an episode saying that aliens create pandemics like Ebola, SARS, and bird and swine flu to wipe out "so-called inferior genetic strains") and pro-ignorant (the first season mentions the similarity between Greek and Norse gods as proof of Hyberborea, when in reality Greeks and Norse are both Indo-European) "Ancient Aliens." She is WORSE than Trump and is just like many of his supporters.: her liking "Ancient Aliens" proves she is a shill, either for Putin, Xi, Maduro/Cuba, or Iran.
Your choice not to mention Rogen's refusal to condemn the ongoing white-supremacist Zionist colonial genocide in Israel makes it seem as if your definition of which women deserve protection from fascism comes with a colour-chart.
Gawd bless Seth. He's a speaker of truths. Y'all might recall -- and if you don't it's an easy Google search -- that when Seth appeared in front of a Federal committee (2014) to speak about Alzheimer's research and funding, he drew attention by calling out the names of the 16 members who either hadn't shown up at all or left before he finished. He's not just funny and smart, he's as deeply honest as they come, and direct. Attributes sorely needed right now. Be a Seth Rogan indeed.
It is so apropos to me that you wrote about continuing to speak up. I have felt defeated this week and unsure how to proceed. When I opened my email this morning, one of my reps is finally doing a town hall. So this week, I release that defeat and step into action in any way. I am going to that town hall.
Thank you again for sharing so much of yourself with us. I find this community filled with possibility.
Sending love, strength, hope, and possibility out to all of you.
Just recently, I was marveling at Seth Rogan’s journey from type-cast stoner bro to boundary pushing writer/director/entrepreneur. He is a gift to society and I LOVE that he is using his platform to say what others are too scared to say. Like you said, I hope it inspires others to do the same.
Seth Rogan paved the way for Trump.
I love this post, Amber. As always, I'm with you on all of it. 🩷 I cannot imagine having so much in my bank account and choosing not to bring good into the world with it. Performative feminism is extremely unhelpful. My heart continues to break over the news every day.
I'm working up my yearly sinus infection this weekend. Every year, when Spring makes everything beautiful, I can't enjoy it because I feel awful. I'm choosing to love it this year anyway. Our backyard is gorgeous, full of birds and buds. Our grass has come in and the yard is a beautiful shade of green again. I need this joy. So I'm choosing it. 🩷
Seth Rogan >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Joe Rogan.
I volunteered again to unload trucks, assemble bags, and distribute fresh and dry food goods for the needy in Manhattan.
Yet, I was told… the needy aren’t coming to get their aid because of serious and valid fears of ICE raids and kidnappings.
This is not good.
Thank you for doing this Benjamin. And I have heard this, too. It’s extremely distressing.
Thank you so much for this. I am finding (some) comfort that others are deeply horrified by the faux feminism and shocking greed of these people who are destroying the pillars of decency, all to have more attention. And thank you for highlighting Seth Rogan's stand. More people (the good neighbors, the artists, the whistleblowers, the journalists) speaking truth to power - again and again - will be the thing that saves us... it is the only thing that ever has.
When you've lost Wendy's and Amber Tamblyn, two national treasures...
I'm going to Colorado tonight, which great, but it means I have to let go of a lot of past trauma/bad things family/friends have done to me that I associate with Colorado, which is challenging. I'm hoping I have enough distractions to keep me occupied.
I'm going to three Braves games, so hopefully I spend my time being pissed about the Braves instead of being pissed about the past.
😂🩷♥️🙏🏻
Now that I’ve unclenched my teeth at this madness from a couple fellow females (and thank you for sharing this post🥰)…I can speak. 🗣️
What I want to let go of this week is my resistance to being tested. From being tested in school, to tested in hospitals to tested in life…I’ve only ever dreaded being tested. GOOD GOD, I COULD FAIL!! I COULD GET BAD NEWS!!! I COULD LOSE A RELATIONSHIP!!! I COULD SEE AWFUL THINGS HAPPENING!!😱
I have sooooo got it all wrong.
What if I PASS?
What if I get bad news, and then learn how to get better?
What if that relationship needs to be lost?
What if I get involved…and shout…and fight?!
Indeed (albeit cliché)…what if…I fly? 🕊️
Again, maybe variations on the theme of me, but then what else do I truly know?😊
All my love to you, Amber and LITD Fam. See you tomorrow, eh?🫶🏼
Ooohhhh great let go Karen I’m here for it!🔥🔥🔥
Thank you sooo much!🥰
Great piece about an incredible dude. Also, I read this while wearing my Houseplant sweatshirt so that was kinda cool. 🤘🏽
I didn’t know that about Seth Rogan- thanks for sharing.
On April 21st, i unofficially said goodbye to my A2 level in German (Tomorrow, i'm gonna officially do so). Today, i said goodbye to my old clothes because i bought two beautiful new ones (They're both green, but one of them is lighter than the other).
Love these 🙌🏻🩷
Hello Amber, big fan! I don't live in the US and I can see how part of the american society is creating a bigger and more fierce opposition to Trump, yet in my country the protests and activism against his actions doesn't get too much attention on mainstream media news and generally focus on sensacionalist headlines and talks. This also happens in the mainstream news in the US?
You had me at “Be a Seth Rogan.” He is brave, funny, creative, talented and generous. ❤️
He stars in misogynistic movies which mock women, including one with former child actress Chloe Grace Moretz: when I first heard of her in 2010 (I was 14 at the time) I did not like hearing she played a foul mouthed heroine who unleashed violence, and I did NOT like the Daily Express (which hypocritically is supposed to be about family values and is also homophobic) praising it. (Later that year, I did not like it praising "Easy A" or acting like 3D is the best part of a film.) I was a spoiled, whining brat who blamed everyone but myself for my problems, but I had a STRONG respect for authority, and I never liked hype. I never liked people praising how great Justin Bieber or Katy Perry were (the fact the bullies at school liked him was part of the reason for my dislike) and I didn't like the obsession with Twilight, James Cameron's Avatar, and to a lesser extent Harry Potter (I used to be a Harry Potter fan, but I was never a Potterhead). I later found out that year that she was going to be in "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" which was based on a chapter book which promoted Hollywood stereotypes about teenagers: like her appearance in "Kick-Ass" I knew it was misogynistic, as the joke was the female character was aggressive even though misogynists think women are helpless. In 2013 I was on "Know Your Meme" (I hate that website) and I discovered the "Keep Calm and Drink Tea" for "Tea Tuesdays" at my high school (which I first found out about in 2012) originated from "Keep Calm And Carry On" which I found disrespectful to the veterans, and I got more stressed out when I discovered a "Keep Calm and Carrie On" image macro in the comments advertising the 2013 movie "Carrie": I realized in mid-2010 that the 1978 "Carrie" was an obvious metaphor for a school shooting.
When I saw the CBC talk about the 2013 "Carrie" the next day, my stress level returned: learning earlier that year about "Kick-Ass 2" also stressed me out. Hearing that Chloe Moretz was in "The Equalizer" and had abandoned her Hispanic name in favour of "Grace" thus being a worthless stooge of Anglos (I do NOT like sellouts or tokens) again caused me stress, and the fact she appeared in the movie as a child prostitute WITH HALF HER HEAD shaved disturbed me greatly (years later I learned this hairstyle was referenced on such things as "The Simpsons" episode "Bart vs. Itchy and Scratchy" and the "American Dad" episode "LGBSteve). Then I read a MSN article saying "13 Pictures That Show Chole Grace Moretz is the new Angelina Jolie," a woman I disliked for being an adulteress just like Brad Pitt and not knowing ANYTHING about mothering or marriage yet publishing a book on it. I learned
Moretz had starred in the 2005 "The Amityville Horror" based on the hoax which helped
cause the United States to be obsessed with the paranormal: i.e. obsessed with
pseudoscience that makes cryptozoology and UFOs look sane (I was also stressed that she abandoned her identity by becoming a blonde: I would call her a coconut but Hispanos are not brown). The next year in "Film Studies" class I learned she was in the 2010 movie "Let Me In" as the vampire: when I heard about it in 2010, the "Romeo and Juliet" motif in the film was pretty stupid since the main characters in the film were 12.
Her being in "The Amityville Horror" and "Let Me In" both caused me stress, and I was also stressed out by her being in the 2014 "If I Stay" in which she retained her Uncle Tom blondeness: she has sadly retained this to this day. In 2014 I heard about the first "Sorority" movie and it seemed rude and obnoxious, promoting teenage stereotypes. I first heard of Seth Rogen in 2012 when I learned about "Knocked Up" and judging by the title it sounded like misogynistic trash. In 2013 he had the misogynistic and racist "The Interview" which had a deleted scene involving a same sex orgy (in reality North Korea is homophobic, which shows how bigoted Hollywood is and how ignorant it pretends to be) which had the CIA violate another country's sovereignty even though if a foreign country made a film about assassinating a U.S president there would be outrage: indeed, there was outrage when the Dixie Chicks said "I'm ashamed George Bush is from Texas" which destroyed their careers, and when "Death of a President" came out. When Kathy Griffin made a fake head of Trump - which I found milquetoast: I was more bothered by Kathy's makeup - she was cancelled, including by the white moderate Women's March. In 2016 I learned school shooters had been inspired by Seth Rogen's misogynistic films.
In 2017 I learned about "Neighbours 2" starring Chloe Grace Moretz and I figured it would be a stupid sex comedy, and in 2020 I saw a TV spot for "Neighbours 2" with Moretz in her underwear and that repulsed me; in January I had heard that Moretz had spoken about how she was sexualized at 14, but I was too uncomfortable to watch it. The next year I had learned Seth Rogen had been mocked by Family Guy back in 2009 for being unfunny, and that was cathartic to me. However in 2023 I learned my intrusive thoughts about Moretz being the clone baby in "American Dad" were correct, the clone ending up as a dodo hybrid which Steve killed. In late 2023 when "The Equalizer" was on I talked about the sexualization and immorality, and my mother irritatedly dismissed it. She could have been a lawyer, but instead she is a health assistant with a Mickey Mouse degree and is frivolous; I have seen child stars in the media have unpleasant existences, like Miley Cyrus and Britney Spears, and for me Moretz and Ariel Winter and such appear to be like how Alan Moore described a child stolen by Gypsies and every so often you get photographs of the child working as a prostitute.
You ok, hon?
Sorry, I have intrusive thoughts.
Well said Amber. Thank you.
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In a world of Katy Perry's, be a Seth Rogen and an Olivia Rodrigo. Don't see too many pop stars being so outspoken for reproductive rights
Katy Perry sexualizes women in the Miley Cyrus way - cream coming out of her bra in 2011 and a 2011 poster saying "Katy Perry's Got Ditties - disrespected Western militaries and Second World War veterans in "Part of Me" and likes the pseudoscientific "red mercury," white supremacist, anti-Semitic, eugenicist (the first season had an episode saying that aliens create pandemics like Ebola, SARS, and bird and swine flu to wipe out "so-called inferior genetic strains") and pro-ignorant (the first season mentions the similarity between Greek and Norse gods as proof of Hyberborea, when in reality Greeks and Norse are both Indo-European) "Ancient Aliens." She is WORSE than Trump and is just like many of his supporters.: her liking "Ancient Aliens" proves she is a shill, either for Putin, Xi, Maduro/Cuba, or Iran.
Your choice not to mention Rogen's refusal to condemn the ongoing white-supremacist Zionist colonial genocide in Israel makes it seem as if your definition of which women deserve protection from fascism comes with a colour-chart.