Why are we all focusing on the negatives, you guys? I've just learned pigs are no longer running off of cliffs! That's great news!

Conversations among viewers in a public forum in a public space are constructive, if anything to make less-aware viewers aware of a lack of representation. I don't think that sitting down with a producer to discuss hints of racism or lack of representation will do any good. They're robots looking at the bottom line.…

As a non-white (tm), I have ZERO interest in Diablo Cody writing a female lead to represent me because, well, she is white. What the fuck would she know about my experience as a hispanic? Or my friend's experience as a middleeastern american? Or my cousin's as a black/biracial woman?

So yeah, I am officially OK with…

Yes, everything you're describing, the housewares at the shower, envelope or cash at the wedding, the white "gift" bag of the bride, and pinning cash on the bride (usually at a dance) is a cultural norm. My problem with your statements are that you seem to think it's an United States cultural norm when in fact it's a…

Dear puppetier, I think we all have a very clear and precise idea of who the asshole(s?) is here and it really isn't Gretchen.

No, she's not. It has never been, even in the North East, an equivalent exchange. The social elite of either coast would be aghast at the idea of asking, let alone requiring, their guests to pay for attending their weddings. Do you actually think Chelsea Clinton demanded or received cash gifts equivalent to the price…

My original comments to @gayghost and @sendmebacktohellagain were not, apparently, approved.

Lordy...no one can catch a break on this site can they? Ever heard the adage: write what you know? She knows misfit, hyper-verbal White young women very, very well. So that's what she writes. The problem is not that White young women's voices are over-represented on TV (White female show-runners are quite rare) but…

Yeah, Gretchen, you can tell us, we won't tell anyone.

I enjoyed this until the last line

That was you?! Sorry. Just following orders...

I went to a past life psychic, too! Peasant, peasant, peasant, peasant, peasant, peasant, peasant, peasant, priest, slave slave slave slave slave, peasant, peasant, peasant, peasant, peasant, gorilla, peasant, peasant, peasant, peasant, peasant, peasant, fisherman, carp carp carp carp carp carp carp carp carp,…

and in my past life, I was a farmer from the Indus valley. I had a wife who died in childbirth, and I was killed by maurauding Aryans at age 19.

I have one thing to say about this whole fucking fiasco of an article and the reprehensible comments underneath it: fuck you. Fuck Jezebel, fuck the comments. In fact, fuck you Jezebel even more than the comments, I expect better of you than pulling the same sensationalist bullshit that every other celebrity gossip…

Madonna was name-checked in Dodai's article about Miley and I find it interesting that she is considered the benchmark for pop-star envelope pushing when the Madonna of 2013 is just as boring as the rest of them in her attempts to be "edgy." That whole MDNA (has anyone seen Molly) thing is just so so so so [sigh]. I…

I will join the group not comfortable with dismissing her account out of hand. From what actually seems to be the first mention of the rape in the media (NME 12-2-1995). I say this because Madonna claims in the interview that she has never mentioned it before.

So, wait. Some of the comments here don't sit well with me.

Guys, listen to me very carefully. If I where in front of you, I would gently cradle that delecate head of yours and hold you close so that you can never loose eye contact with me and could read my lips in case any of these sounds I'm making go in one ear and out the other. Are you ready? Paying attention? okay,…

It's really not.