The comment on video games is a reference to one of the previous books picked by the committee which was Ready Player One. 

A lot of what he writes isn’t romance because there’s no happily ever after which is a requirement for the genre. As for the other part of what he says, if a woman wrote what he did the books would probably be classified as melodramatic women’s fiction.

Read Ready Player One and then try to justify your argument that it’s about “substance.” Are you kidding me? 

Seeing that pointed out, it does seem like the higher ups focusing so much attention on them would reinforce Simone’s original assumption that she’s stuck in her own head. I know Chidi made a case for why she should still act like the others actually exist independent of her, but after a while I imagine I would start…

I was suspect about Michael as the episode ended to. On reflection, I think some of Michael’s seemingly wasteful ideas have been the equivalent of making Chidi take a break and get nachos. When have the core group really relaxed this season? At least I hope he’s just been trying to get them to remember to take breaks.

Telling him at the same time she broke up with him seemed so weird for Good Janet to do. I like to imagine Good Janet wouldn’t have told him unless asked, or would have given him a huge box of jalapeño poppers while explaining he’d left to find a team with a good offense and defense. 

Derek might be different because he was created as a rebound boyfriend so Janet wanted him to be her equal and have enough autonomous consciousness and sense of self to be in a relationship. She might have only given the Janet Babies baseline capabilities and no powers. Their aren’t a bunch of plungers around and…

Your first sentence has me freaking out. Throughout the episode Jason was all “maybe that’s what they wanted.” What if the Bad Place has a contingency where if Bad Janet was discovered they were counting on Michael and some of The Soul Squad coming on a rescue mission? I doubt the Vicky in a Michael suit is getting…

I am constantly amazed by how many layers they add to Jason. This might be the most blatant example of how listening to him from the beginning reveals the solution to a problem they’re in. It replaces my go to example of when he suggested they go to the cops and the solution ended up being to get the judge involved.…

I am thinking about switching because of the combination of the most recent debate performances, and the endorsements from Omar and Tlaib. I agree AOC on her own isn’t likely to be persuasive to that many people. For me, her endorsing him doesn’t hold any more weight than endorsements from Mike Gravel or the…

They might have clout with people like me who backed Sanders in 2016 and are backing Warren this time. There could also be people more willing to support him after seeing people held up as the future of the party coming out in support. In light of recent health scares I think the timing of three young women of color…

Backed Sanders for 2016 and behind Warren this time, and I agree. Except for AOC, whose endorsement isn’t a surprise, the endorsements in conjunction with the debate last night is making me reconsider. There might be enough Warren/Sanders undecided that are swayed by this to stall the gains she’s been making on him.…

So there with you on Good Janet being put through the wringer. There’s precedent established for her being slightly off when going through something emotional. When she realized she loved Jason but was trying to help him and Tahani stay together, she kept producing bad things and malfunctioning because subconsciously…

I’m working on a theory about Jason that’s built around how so much of what he says turns out to be insightful, inspiring, or the best thing to do in hindsight. It’s  tinfoil, but tinfoil that’s somewhat justified.

I’m so glad to see this comment that it being months old won’t stop me from replying. Did everyone forget that their insider “friend” took them through a backwoods scenic route so they have no idea where the closest major city is and they are reliant on the very people they would want to get away from for a ride. The…

I’m so sorry this happened to you and hope you and the rest of his survivors are able to find solace. It sounds like he was genuinely happy with the life he’d led, had made peace with his mortality and dying in what he might have suspected would be the not so distant future, and spent his last moments with people he…

I agree that it doesn’t take away from the point that gay sex was not only criminalized but considered a capital offense during most of the Victorian era. (It does create a problem for arguments about the enforcement of capital punishment during Victorian era because the last executions for consensual sodomy between…

And even in the U.S. women who have done it are often in need of the money even if it’s not as a primary source. There were articles on the way military spouses used surrogacy as a means of additional income while their partners were deployed. These women may not “need” the income as their most basic needs are met,…

Another telling thing about the exchange is that Harris gave Biden a chance to renounce his views and not only did he not apologize, he reiterated his stance. Matthews and other Totally Not Racist white people can probably relate more than they’d openly admit to the idea that they aren’t for segregation, they just…

If it bleeds it leads.*