The Patriarchal Lie of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl Must Be Stabbed in the Heart and Killed was a less catchy title for a film. When parody wrestles with the generic tropes it seeks to destabilise, it ...

Most of us have found ourselves in an urgent state of motivated cleaning at some point, as we feel compelled to clear the sink of dirty dishes or organize an entire closet. Social media users have now ...

In the seven years since New Girl premiered, Jess (Zooey Deschanel) has come a long way from her "adorkable" roots. The quirky, handbells-loving teacher from Portland has created a new life for ...

For those who thought misandrist discourse peaked in the mid-2010s via internet memes, Halsey is the pop star bringing it squarely into 2020. Sampling dialogue from the surrealist, cult horror film ...

Manic Pixie Dream Boys are characterized as 'aloof, mysterious, out of the ordinary creatives who typically appear to look like tortured souls.' In 2005, film critic Nathan Rabin assigned a definition ...

Marbles, cartoonist Ellen Forney's excellent graphic memoir about being bipolar, opens with her in the middle of a 5 1/2-hour session in a tattoo parlor. Every time the needle traces a line, Forney ...

Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition that causes unusual mood swings, ranging from extreme highs (known as manic episodes) to extreme lows (called depressive episodes). There are three types ...

Manic-depression, or bipolar disorder, is one of the most misdiagnosed conditions in psychiatry. Part of the problem, as noted in yesterday's post, is that the term bipolar has been watered down to an ...