As much as I love New Girl, I think they're still failing to give Winston any serious story storylines. Jess, Schmidt and Nick are WAY more fleshed out, leaving Winston to appear somewhat 2-dimensional in comparison.

Nope. Sitcoms don't get enough credit. Firstly, they move forward national dialogue (see Golden Girls tackling AIDS and homophobia or Jill on Home Improvement asserting herself by starting her own career). They also provide a mirror for people who feel isolated or hopeless. Sitcoms have addressed bullying, loss and…

I kinda feel like the writers on New Girl are dropping the ball bit with Winston's character. For the most part he is just there and helps out the other characters but he hasn't really had conflict where he needed help from someone else.

So...we're analyzing the fact that we shouldn't be analyzing things?

She killed someone and got convicted? Somehow I am giving Florida an A+ on this one.

The timing of this is interesting as I was just looking up Linda Fiorentino last night. Other than a photo from few years back, I got zip. All I could gather from the "what the fuck ever happened to her" search is that she is 55 now. That and bad mouthing from Kevin Smith is apparently all that is required to…

That photo shopping job is downright dehumanizing. They look like plastic dolls (especially Cameron) while the men get to look like real, expressive human beings. They don't even have a hint of a pore nor the finest of lines around their eyes for god sake.

I also think a factor in this is that a lot of actresses who are older now were cast in the past specifically because they were attractive - not because they were necessarily talented. So as they aged they lost their one appeal. The talented ones - Meryl, Helen Mirren, Mary Louise Parker, Sandra Bullock, Kathy Bates,…

This practice, too, creates either unrealistic expectations or women, or feeble women characters.

They are old as soon as they are no longer very young.

Well, an entire concept does not have to be bad for it to be doing something shitty that lends itself to a point. The Counselor can be doing a good thing by queering a few tropes and still be doing a bad thing by photoshopping those characters into creepy porcelain dolls. Both these things can be true at the same time.

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I've been thinking about this a lot since the Sara Silverman/W Kamau Bell interview where she talked about how it feels to be called "old".

not shocking, when hollywood is run by men who refuse to grow up for an audience of young men who aren't grown up

Javier Bardem loves having dumbass haircuts, huh?

Is it not strange, though, to call out The Counselor which is at least hiring 41 year old and a 39 year old actresses to play the two female leads in a movie where the male lead is 36? Surely most casting directors would've given those parts to 23 year olds. Okay, fuck the photoshop on the poster, but...

I didn't get the "mere" nanny thing. What I got was 'Hey man, at least I'm here with my kid, not paying someone else to do it.'

True the nanny may have more experience (or not), but that experience isn't with the child in question. Nor is the nanny familiar with the parenting methods and techniques being employed. So, in short, unless you're asked for advice by a stranger, don't offer. Just nod, smile, and move on.

I get second-hand rage overhearing anyone giving anyone parenting advice!

No force on Earth can stop people from watching porn - making it safer and more realistic certainly wouldn't!

Why would the parents know if the kid snuck around them to have this procedure? The Chinese hospital where this was done should be responsible for performing this surgery without the consent and consultation of the parents.