Rachel Vorona Cote's saved articles

Jane Eyre is a real treasure. It was a unique work for its time, and remains important and worthwhile. The film adaptation with Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender is excellent. Very true to the spirit of the book. Read more

Thank you, teacher. Should she put a shiny, polished apple on your desk tomorrow? Read more

This is the internet. There is no place for consideration of emotional well-being, nuanced thought, or measured discussion on the internet. Read more

If only there were some way to avoid being a dick, obviously you haven’t found it yet Read more

Wow, it’s super rare that a writer on these sites admit’s they made a mistake. Mistakes happen, no shame in that. You may have now become one of my favorite writers on this thing. Read more

We all make mistakes. Apologies for the commenters who are taking the opportunity to abuse you for an innocent error. Read more

Much clearer. Thanks. Read more

Thank you for doing a proper correction. :) Read more

The British actor David Schneider tweets this with, depressingly, semi regularity but it’s a handy little checklist: Read more

I like to think that Rachel has been watching a bit too much Spartacus:

I think the unfortunate thing is that lots of people who speak out against Israel unfortunately do employ anti-semitic rhetoric. I’m not even talking about Muslims. The worst I’ve encountered has been from WASPs who want to portray Jews as “just as bad as the rest of us” so they don’t have to feel bad about… Read more

Right? Fuck this guy. I’m an American Jew. My government spending billions of dollars and alienating a massive region of the world to protect an apartheid state doesn’t have any positive bearing on me. All it’s done from my perspective is make my fellow countrymen more suspicious of people like me. Not to mention how… Read more

Ivanka has a plan to make some money off climate change. It’s an issue near and dear to his daughter’s heart, innit? Of course, her daddy has an open mind. Read more

Fun fact, you know who else believes in climate change? The DOD and they think it’s a security risk. So I suspect that while Pruitt will do his best to make childhood asthma in my hometown in WV even more of an issue than it already is, the climate scientists working as defense contractors will be safe and maybe all… Read more

Israel wants what’s best for Israel only, and no longer speaks for the Jewish people. They’re a settler-colonial apartheid state and the world is conditioned to not criticize their actions because by Israeli logic to say “Apartheid is bad, colonialism is bad, and walling indigenous people into ghettos and slowly… Read more

Why is the prosperity of Israel more important than fighting anti-semitism in the rest of the world? How do people like Netanyahu speak of the lessons of the Holocaust in one breath but then not care when genocide is being committed against other groups and support people who incite it? Read more

I’ve read a lot of trailer reviews in my life. This might be my favorite one ever. Read more

Hey now, this is a little presumptuous. Read more

Where’s the PokemonGo coverage!? Read more