Actually, there are people who follow Madeleine and Tracie around and post the link to that article. Jessica does not write for Jezebel usually as she is the editor in chief.

This is such an interesting, weird line to think about. I think Family Guy is like the epitome of this. Sure, Seth McFarlane can say the racism, sexism, and misogyny are satire, but the vast majority of people I know who watch the show like it because of those factors - they like feeling validated in their thinking.

GO FOR IT GIRL

Only if I get to be Janis. I'm really good at saying "crack"

Well, Zap and I, so yeah!

Oh hey, I had some NYE strawman bullshit too! So fun, right?!

I hear what you're saying, and that's why I stayed pretty quiet until the Challenger movie issue was brought up, because that's what really highlights what bothers me here, although in the opposite way of CassieBear.

I mean, I always err on the side of being respectful of the families of people lost in tragedies. I think Beyonce should have reached out to them. I find that distasteful.

But why is the comparison being made even? The fact that the Challenger dramatization might be more disrespectful (although I think the permission of the families is not to be overlooked here) doesn't make this less disrespectful than it is.

Well, okay. There's a difference behind dramatizing something in a movie dramatization based on a specific event and using the audio in a song that, while it may be about sudden loss, is not explicitly about this tragedy. In fact, I don't think that it's explicit that the song is about suddenly losing a loved one and…

The point is, if you're a male trying to make it in Hollywood and have a family, you likely have a wife behind you who is, if not doing the care work, coordinating the care work. If you're a woman trying to make it in Hollywood and have a family, you probably do not have that. Which is why men are more able to be…

Taking them off mainstream tv, taking the stand that this is not acceptable for public figures in America, is not the same as making the stupid views go away. It's setting a standard. In the digital age, there really is no such thing as making views go away or driving them underground - there are so many ways to get…

Ah gotcha. My undergrad has a similar system of women's undergrad, coed grad.

Are you....near Philly?

Hey, you're great. That's all I got.

People actually using drugs, particularly pot, is only really a concern for the Morality Police Conservatives (TM). It's much more about where you got the drugs - we use the War on Drugs to justify some pretty fucked up shit in Latin America, for instance. Drugs coming from the southern hemisphere are a much bigger…

So your answer is to allow this to keep going?

Because it's no one else's business whether I am happy or not and how I express my emotions? If I'm happy, I'll smile. I don't need someone else to tell me to do it.....

I don't even know what the last part of that means but it seems pretty clear that you are fine with women having their human rights restricted and DYING in order to save money.

A little. You're saying you're more terrified of what happens when the money from Catholic churches leaves the healthcare industry. But right now it's limiting care - it's preventing people from getting healthcare.