commentary "Mother" escaped its ballroom roots and proliferated Hollywood over the last 10 years. Time to pump the brakes Published May 10, 2026 12:00PM (EDT) Julianne Moore as Havana Segrand in "Maps to the Stars" (Focus World) If I were to make a list of all of the internet slang terms I’d like to see retired for a minimum of five years, the result would sound something like the “Cell Block Tango” number from “Chicago”: Bop! Slop! Banger! Wig! Cicero! Lipschitz! And frankly, the song fits perfectly. They (being the innumerable social media users who participate in superfan, or “ stan ,” culture) had it (the kibosh on overused, obnoxious stan jargon) comin’. They only had themselves to blame. As a writer who is both gay and old enough to have watched the internet explode into the nefarious monster it’s become, the way language transforms online both irks and fascinates me.…