I TOTALLY AGREE. And I feel like no one ever gets that the whole point of the movie was that he was objectifying her all along, turning her into this MPDG that would be an accessory in his story—but she actually had her own point of view and refused to become that for him. She was never that into JGL's character, he…

I can barely wear heels (I can maybe—MAYBE—deal with them for an event where I won't be doing any walking or standing), and I do feel bad about it—but I don't think any one person has ever made me feel that way. It's more just the tacit message that we get from everywhere (magazines, TV, whathaveyou) that to be…

I agree, and that's what I meant—that it would get attention (not necessarily freak people out, but people would notice) if a character clearly had a race predilection in the people he dates. And I thought about saying something about Troy, but I thought that might get too complicated. Because I sort of suspect the…

Yeah, that's totally fair to put Girls in a different category. It's just the only other show I'd ever seen criticized in this way, so I threw it in there.

Right—I know he did. But aside from Priya, I'm not sure another woman of color has been on the show even as someone who just walks past them in the hall. I could be wrong—I don't watch religiously.

I get the point about Mindy's love interests all being of a certain physical type—and how that could make viewing a little confusing. I personally think they're probably setting up tall, fair-haired, smooth-talking men as her type in order to subvert and confound that with a relationship with Danny. Like, the one…

Right—I get that, personally, we all may be wondering where all the POC-love interests are, but in articles and conversations about Community (of which I've read A LOT), I have never once seen love interests' race brought up. Never once. In the 3 articles I've read about the Mindy Project, every single one has had…

I've seen this argument elsewhere—and I have to say, I really don't understand it. Why is it that when a woman of color is the lead on a show, people want diversity in her romantic partners—but no one brings up diversity in regards to Nick Miller's dating choices on The New Girl or Jeff Winger's on Community or those…

I think think the person who did the animation was going for a very personal slice of TV writing. It's one person's (the kidnapper's) idea of the best writers ever. Because it seems like they're mostly current writers of a type of show that is widely discussed on the Internet (shows that have active fandoms). I mean,…

His situation may not be ideal, but I don't think it's really that difficult. He has enough cache that he could probably get any project greenlighted were he to sign on. He has enough money that he could produce his own projects. But instead he chooses to whine about and insult the plebs who gave him those…

Hahha. Yes! I just said this in another comment. That happens to me with basketball all. the. time. So annoying.

Ugh. Yes. I'm not so much into football (though, I do watch it, mostly enjoy it, and understand it)—but the mansplaining happens to me all the time with basketball. And 90% of the time, I have to correct their mansplaination, because I usually know more about basketball than whatever dude is trying to impress me…

Ugh. Me toooooooo. Desk Ennui sucks. My boredom gets so oppressive sometimes, that I'm lulled into such a stupor that I don't even want to eat lunch or go to the bathroom. It's like work-specific depression.

No, I completely agree. I think my problem with this isn't the exhibit itself, or that they're displaying these photos without consent, but how they obtained the photos. This would be more ethical—and the artistic statement would be stronger—if they displayed actual unsolicited dick pics.

I'm pretty sure you don't need a release unless you're making money by reselling someone's image. So, a journalist, for instance doesn't need to get releases from people in a crowd shot at a football game or at a protest—but if a photographer wanted to sell those same shots on a stockphotography site so that they…

When I was an undergrad, there was a woman in one of my classes who was pregnant for most of the semester. Then one week, she was pregnant on Monday, and not pregnant on Wednesday. She didn't miss a single class.

Jesus. Even if you do promise to vote Democrat, don't move to Austin. Please. Traffic is bad enough.

Jesus. Even if you do promise to vote Democrat, don't move to Austin. Please. Traffic is bad enough.

It's a common misconception, but Travis isn't the only blue county in Texas—Harris and Dallas (Tarrant?) are also blue. And Bexar, too. And there's a lot of blue along the border as well.

Actually, no. You're wrong. Texas, until Rick Perry took the helm, has been a state that leaned Republican, but had a mix of Reps and Dems holding statewide office—and the highest offices (Gov, Lt. Gov., and Railroad Commissioner) regularly oscillated between the parties. Even Bush, as governor, was known as…