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Rebecca Shaw

Rebecca Shaw

The Age

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I have been forced to speak up. Society needs to act to rein in ridiculous movie runtimes

Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or perhaps even something heavier than a rock, like Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson), you would know by now...

05.12.2024 10

The Guardian

Rebecca Shaw

Why are we laughing at male ignorance about menstruation? Where are the LOLs?

I often get annoyed while looking at the internet. It’s part of the deal. Usually it’s easy to scroll past irritating content and not lose time...

21.11.2024 20

The Guardian

Rebecca Shaw

As a hero of TV underdogs, I’m here to tell you to watch Somebody Somewhere

We live in a time when there is so much TV available to stream that you could spend the rest of your life scrolling past viable options and never...

07.11.2024 7

The Guardian

Rebecca Shaw

When can you change the lyrics on song covers? Ask Kelly Clarkson

I can’t hold a tune to save my life, so I don’t know for sure, but I imagine there are a few things that strike fear into the heart of singers....

24.10.2024 4

The Guardian

Rebecca Shaw

Too many ‘candid’ social media videos are obviously, agonisingly fake. So why are viewers laughing?

With advances in technology including AI and ChatGPT, and increasingly realistic fake images everywhere, media literacy is diving towards an all-time...

20.09.2024 20

The Guardian

Rebecca Shaw

Pumping up the volume: how podcasts were my unlikely saviour during the horror of influenza A

After a horrible two-week battle with the influenza A (A stands for “annoying”) virus, I am in the home stretch to victory, and as such have...

08.08.2024 10

The Guardian

Rebecca Shaw

The hottest new trend in streaming TV? Episodes released a week at a time

Unless you’ve been living under a rock that doesn’t have wifi access for the past few years, you would know that nostalgia has been having a...

18.07.2024 20

The Guardian

Rebecca Shaw

‘Hot rodent boyfriend’ is the latest trend reframing men’s bodies – why can’t we extend this generosity towards women?

There are prices I pay for being a lesbian who spends too much time on the internet and loves film, TV and pop culture. One is that I spend a lot of...

27.06.2024 30

The Guardian

Rebecca Shaw

Daily grind getting you down? Let’s celebrate the success of the ‘anti-nepo baby’ celebrities

For the last little while, celebrity discourse has included a lot of discussion about nepo babies. Which beautiful child was spawned by which...

13.06.2024 9

The Guardian

Rebecca Shaw

It’s wall-to-wall lesbians out there! But the sudden acceptance of queerness is slightly complicated

I don’t want to alarm anyone, but if my calculations are correct, it seems we are entering a sapphic-heavy cultural moment. I’ve been a lesbian...

09.05.2024 40

The Guardian

Rebecca Shaw

Conan O’Brien is going viral for all the right reasons – hot wings and spewed milk

With every advance in human technology comes an advance in weird new emotional situations. For example, the Germans should invent a word for the...

25.04.2024 60

The Guardian

Rebecca Shaw

What’s so bad about a reboot? It doesn’t dilute the original, it adds to it

As my loved ones, acquaintances, colleagues and strangers who’ve stood in line with me all know, I am not opposed to complaining. I am a...

04.04.2024 40

The Guardian

Rebecca Shaw

I will never understand heterosexual dating culture’s obsession with height. Just get a footstool!

A few nights ago, for some reason, I got served a TikTok where (dating) actors Zendaya and Tom Holland were asked a question about their...

22.03.2024 50

The Guardian

Rebecca Shaw

I have long wanted to be more relaxed about time – luckily, an external force is helping me overcome my intense punctuality

There is a trope within the queer community that we are always running late to things. I was reminded of this last weekend during Mardi Gras (a...

07.03.2024 10

The Guardian

Rebecca Shaw

I had only middle-aged lesbian passing interest in ceramics – then I discovered The Great Pottery Throw Down …

One thing that is amazing about this world, and I’ve been trying to notice those things more, is that you never know when new love is around the...

23.02.2024 8

The Guardian

Rebecca Shaw

I tweeted a joke about Drew Barrymore’s tiny TV – and caused an international incident

Twitter/X began its death throes some time ago and is still thrashing about, slowly sinking into internet quicksand like Artax the horse in The...

25.01.2024 30

The Guardian

Rebecca Shaw

Why obsess over Taylor Swift’s sexuality when there are more openly queer musicians than ever?

Sometimes a piece of content is perfectly designed to send various parts of the internet into a Tasmanian devil-style (cartoon NOT animal) whirlwind....

11.01.2024 4

The Guardian

Rebecca Shaw

Crying in an airport Red Rooster, my lifelong fear of public tears started to crumble

I recently read an interesting chapter (watched a video) in a medical textbook (on TikTok) about a woman who suffers from emetophobia – the intense...

21.12.2023 3

The Guardian

Rebecca Shaw

My partner and I are on very different sports pages – and that’s probably okay

The closest my queer relationship has ever felt to a sitcom-like heterosexual one is when we try to talk about sport. I was raised with three brothers...

07.12.2023 4

The Guardian

Rebecca Shaw

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