If the creatives in your agencies got to goof off, they were atypical. I'm a copywriter and I constantly have clients, PMs and CDs breathing down my neck and expecting me to produce rock star, award-winning copy with ridiculous turnaround times. Designers face the same pressure, especially for anything digital.

As someone who works with tech startups, I keep seeing this passed off as "culture." I can think of 4 right off the top of my head where the founders only brought in people just like them - white guys under 35 - and explained it as "it's important to have a good cultural fit" and so on. They tend to have these…

The show was terrible. I wouldn't mind fat jokes if they were funny; instead they were mostly stereotypes (fat people are obsessed with food and stuff themselves constantly!) The Skinny Bitch was over the top - immediately predatory and seductive with the guy in the first scene, then competitive and awful with Rebel's…

What??? Those are seriously weak. At least the last two are. The final one represents one of the biggest problems feminism has - it assigns too much visibility to stereotypes and negative soundbites and doesn't propose an alternative. It's really hard to stamp out a mode of thinking without offering a compelling…

Jean Rhys, Angela Carter, Adaf Soueif, Joyce Carol Oates, Amy Tan, Mary Gaitskill, Anchee Min.

You and me both. I cannot tell the difference between a $400 designer black sweater and a $40 black sweater from Macy's. I am fashion-blind.

She looks pretty haggard in the Carrie trailer.

Having just ingested Season 1 of Orphan Black, I agree. Her performance as all the clones isn't just a stand-out for the year, but of all time. She's amazing.

Well, that was a snore of an opening.

That's what I thought. There was no party. She was quite isolated with him.

I just joined Twitter a few weeks ago and it is blowing my mind. People follow me, then unfollow if I haven't followed them back within 12 hours. People post daily counts of who has followed and unfollowed them, with a link to the platforms that track it. Talk about an empty popularity contest. Then there is the…

No kidding! I feel cats have much more expressive faces than dogs. My cats have a range of smiles alone - fond smiles, disdainful-but-tolerant smiles, blissful smiles, etc.

I just ache with empathy for the design team. I guarantee this was not their idea.

I'm guessing he's 48-52 but believes he can pass for 37.

Yes, I feel like every show I watch, there's a female character who arouses passionate vitriol. Kate on Lost. Betty on Mad Men. Lori on Walking Dead. Even when people hate a male character, like Joffrey on GOT, people always quickly chime in with what a super sweet guy he is in real life. Yet the venomous hatred…

Or she has a good copywriter whose copy was rewritten by executives who think they know better. (projecting my own experience? no, not at all....)

I think you just explained one reason why dating older or younger has never seemed odd to me - I rarely have the same cultural references or interests with people my own age so I don't notice when they're missing with anyone else.

Agreed. I declined to give an exit interview after leaving a job with a horrible boss - but I did help communicate the reality of her by helping the rest of my former team get new jobs. Someone from the company contacted me and asked me pointblank why I was so hellbent on poaching their employees, and I pointed out…

I agree with that there's a ridiculous expectation of loyalty from companies - but I also think there's a ridiculous expectation of friendship and bonding too. I like to have a strong boundary between my personal and professional lives and yet it seems like today employees are expected to be friends and be a…

I actually thought this referred to a pet baby rabbit. Clearly I read too much Cute Overload.