Ah, thanks. Sorry I was so abrupt, I totally mistook your intention.

I think this is a strange comment to reply to me with, based on my two comments here on the matter, seeing as I’ve said that A) feminists can cheat, and Whedon’s issues are re: womanizing and imbalance of power, and B) that I’ll enjoy his work regardless, so I’m not emotionally tied up.

“It’s really not ok for anyone else to define those women’s experiences with him other than those women.”

It’s totally possible to be both (I was, a long time ago) but it’s impossible to be a womanizer and a feminist, which is really the grosser accusation here.

I am a non-cook, here is the thing I’m living on lately. It’s a lot of written directions but is 10 minutes of work and minimal cleanup/cost:

Quiche for life! I lived on quiche the second half of college (first half was bar food, quiche is far superior to bar food).

My theory is that’s it’s A) because even if smaller-town midwestern-type people are semi-passionate about politics, they’re not surrounded by important political stuff for the most part... or at least, not like the people who live in major cities are (aka New York, Chicago, San Francisco, DC).

Do you work in medicine? You sound defensive.

Well, renovating a centuries-old manor is not cheap.

Go pros are cheaper than pro level DLSRs and such, but they’re not exactly “cheap” like a throwaway camera. I think the absolute dead cheapest model is $150.

When they say “lighting” they don’t mean like normal lighting design with lighting fixtures and such for a normal home. This was like a full-scale light installation—like at an art museum—made throughout a giant manor of 40 rooms, dramatic enough to require architectural changes in the building(s), carried off by a…

Sort of? That’s an element of it. But it’s more cultural, the money’s just an easy descriptor lots of people will immediately understand. Lots of people have enough money to be comfortable and still feel broke all the time, but this is a certain upper middle class/keeping up with the joneses/so close to rich they can…

I always assumed the Jetsons were upper middle class... The sort of people who bring in a combined household income of ~ $500k/year and live in California’s bay area, so they make good money but everything’s really expensive so they more or less live the “sweet life” paycheck to paycheck.

It doesn’t widen the follicle or anything, just dissolves the hair. If you leave it on a tch too long it does chemically exfoliate a bit—be VERY careful and obviously YMMV—which sort of makes it seem like it’s removing hair under the skin. It’s equivalent to a very, very close shave when done right, but it’s not…

I realize the article says don’t and people get burned, but I guess I just like playing with chemicals, because you can’t take away my Nair on my downstairs. It is SO MUCH EASIER with zero of the intensive pain of waxing (I can’t get used to waxing the labia, just can’t).

American Gods is good; I love Anansi Boys. It’s not as outright chuckley—though it is funny, full of sly humor—more ... fantastical? The way Gaiman writes contemporary fantasy is like magical reality meets surrealism.

Yeah, he was born in 1962 and she was born in 1966... they’re very close in age. But age is a trickster when you’re a filthy rich vampire like Salma Hayek!

Thank you! I am like your sister. I tend to be intense and I’m private when not online. I don’t have a lot of friends period, and in my case, I have had long stretches of time with no close female friends.

GLOW is pretty good; not what I expected when I started watching it (a bit more serious), and well acted. It felt very time-capsule-y to me, in a good way. I’m looking forward to the second season.

I’m dying.