I am conflicted about the movie. It is entertaining, and while I like it for the reasons you say above, I also hate the ending. While I appreciate that the evil plotting did not succeed against Hollywood tropes, Michael and Kimmie had the WORST relationship. No communication, different life places, one person…

When this movie came out I was like, WOW 27- SUCH ADULT!

What I want to know is how they'll stretch the Dionne Warwick singalong scene (the best part of the movie) to cover a 22 episode season.

It’s not about keeping child out of society, it’s about keeping them in the appropriate environment. As a professional and expectant mother, I would be highly annoyed if I were paying money to be at a conference (or asked to speak!) where children where a distraction. Asking a baby (or toddler) to sit still and be…

I don’t know. And I get that day care is expensive and we need to fix that. But that doesn’t give parents a carte blanche to just bring their babies around wherever they want. The other day the aesthetician that was doing my waxing had her toddler in the room across the hall; he kept crying and at one point she had to…

This is my reaction as well. My problem with bringing infants into the workplace is due solely to noise. Babies make noise: happy noise, upset noise, healthy baby noise. Why am I a bad feminist if I can’t concentrate around this and ask that it not be in my workspace?

Sorry, but you have a very narrow view of this subject. Have you ever sat in a college class, with a screaming toddler who won’t shut up? Or have you paid for a ticket for a symposium, only to have to have the speaker leave the podium because her newborn wouldn’t stop crying. I have.

I’ve taken my kids to work occasionally, and sometimes even had them sit in the classroom quietly reading. Hell, when I was chair of the department, a colleague even left her two pre-school age kids in my office to watch while she taught (apparently, they had pink eye).

I love when parents act like they’re doing a service by breeding children, as opposed to creating little half clones out of vanity.

I don’t have kids yet. Let’s get that out of the way. While reading this article I kept noticing how the author kept mentioning how quiet her baby was. That’s great, -if it’s true. But let’s not forget that we all tend to be biased towards our own. People never think their dogs will bite someone, or that their kids…

I agree, but it’s the not-so-self-aware moms that ruin it for everyone.

I agree with you. I have a friend who is hoping to do as the writer and wear her baby to work and I just don’t think it’s going to work out. It would kill my concentration if I was her labmate. Infants sleep a lot but when they are not sleeping they take attention. And things that can sound like happy baby noises to…

Look, I love babies. I like moms (some of them). But if I was invited to speak in from of hundreds of people, do a book signing, and participate in an intense professional conference, I’d arrange for child care for the day. No, you can’t bring your baby to work, sorry. That includes adjunct teaching. Advocate for…

My problems with this aren’t about the nudity because of “OH GOD NAKED PEOPLE” reasons, they are purely logistical. Is the venue providing lockers to store clothes?? Or is everyone just expected to bring a backpack or whatever? AND if I can’t slip my credit card and ID into my pocket, I guess that means I have to take…

AHS did it in Coven when Madison (Emma Roberts) gets gang raped at a frat party. I think the show handled her character’s rape with care because it really focused on HER and her ordeal. There was a shot of her in the shower just broken down and this was after she had established herself as this bitchy, easy to judge…

It’s just so disgusting to me. I mean if you really feel that rape is just essential to your plot, just show enough to get the point across that it happened. It’s not like actually showing the brutality of rape in your fictional show is going to change anyone’s minds. Nobody is going to watch the 230th rape scene on…

So is every TV drama just required to have rape scenes now or something? And no one thinks that’s basically just cheap exploitation?

implies the creators do not trust themselves as storytellers, or maybe they’re getting lazy