That sounds hilarious and awesome. I agree - you should write a novel or something!

Oh lord, I have a total MPDG in my life (or had, at any rate). He's waaaaay younger than me, and works in a field where he often travels a lot for work, couch surfing with various friends. He's stayed with me a couple times. We always have fun, but he's way too immature and whimsical for me to take seriously as a…

Megan strikes me as an amazingly intelligent and complex character, one whom we rarely get a sense of where her real mental attention is focused. Something interesting, or strange, is always being revealed of her out of no where (the zou-be-zou-be performance, her miraculous Heinz idea, etc.) and she often seems to…

Well, I'm glad you have been able to get help. It takes a lot of bravery and self honesty to be able to break out of a destructive cycle.

I'm surprised so many people are down on Megan for making what seemed a fair fight remark to Don after his dig about her mother. Like, if he's going to dish it out (and belittle her attempts to be professional at her work at the same time) he better be fucking prepared to take it as well, which he wasn't. He's…

I have a friend who I think is codependent, but isn't aware of it (or would never acknowledge her behavior out of pride). I'm curious - how did you come to recognize your behavior and seek help for it?

I saw a video interview about the show with Dunham and the girl who plays Jessa, the the girl who plays Jessa said that most of the wardrobe ended up coming from her own personal closet...

I think it was such a mistake for HBO to try to make this show into a re-modeled, Gen-Y version of Sex and The City. It's pretty obvious that's why there are four main white female characters. A television show about young post-graduate women in NYC =/= SATC. They really could have gone anywhere with it - creating…

Warning: Random ass thought coming. The entire discussion around this television show got me remembering a funny little short story from my years as an English major in college - a story by Shirley Jackson, called "The Lottery." In this story, a family in a village wins the lottery, except it isn't all that great,…

I suspect that this was not the creators' intention, but if there is one aspect of life that I see this show hitting on really well - based on this comment thread alone - is the issue of young people and money and how they handle it. Whether people have it or don't, and what that means for the haves and the have…

I agree with this assessment, and that does bother me. I saw Tiny Furniture too, and it is way too similar in some ways. But that's why the network bought the program - because it fits a certain demographic. If anything, I suspect that the marketing department had a little too much say in how they've been…

I liked it because I have totally been there. Sleeping with a guy with whom you're not totally on the same page, who tries do do some shit that you're not totally comfortable with? Check. What really got me though, was her total nervous talking throughout the whole scene - she wouldn't shut up because she couldn't…

Still don't get all the hate - I don't care what geographic area you're from. As if anyone else commenting on this thread could write a television series based on the life they know that would be any less annoying or neurotic. Grow up people.

I just watched the first episode, and I'm not sure where all the hate is coming from. It's the FIRST EPISODE of a SERIES. You don't get to see every character and every story arc laid out in just the first 27.5 minutes of the show. This isn't the local improv group's 10 minute Shakespeare, where every play is…

Wow. From your response, and Wait, Wait's above - it seems like a lot of girls eating disorders are brought on by insecurities instilled in them by their own mothers (and not necessarily from things around them like media images or their friends). I wonder how common that experience is. That's really unfortunate…

Yeah, there was something about the storyline with Betty that seemed super weak and thrown together to me - 1) It could well have been a quick fix because of January Jones' pregnancy, but also 2) it almost seemed like unfair gratuitous Betty-hate pile-on, to make her character that fat and depressed, and therefore…

I call bullshit - the tone of this guy's writing doesn't sound at all how I imagine Robert Downey Jr. would sound writing. Besides, RDJ doesn't seem to me like someone who would feel the need to trash the Hollywood Machine on some dumb website. He may be recovering from problems - but he still wants to work, and…

I think you just have to be honest - kind, but honest. Say something to the effect of "I care about you a lot, but I there are some things that just aren't working for me...."...etc. Because ultimately healthy sex is about both partners being satisfied. You're not wrong or weak for breaking down - you were probably…

I've seen the whole movie, and no - Arbaugh is actually turns out to be a disturbing character herself, and a further example of how fucked up someone can become in an industry that only values what you look like.

For me, and the effect it has on the relationship, it really depends on how much I like the guy. Last year I dated a guy for a while who had had a pretty long dating dry spell (perhaps because of his ED issues, I'm not sure), and had a lot of trouble getting hard the first several times we had sex. But I really…