But that's not what I'm saying. I'm more saying that it's a rare example of a movie that's not treating middle-aged women like a joke, and that there are a shit-ton of movies they could've picked on instead.

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...

No, it's giving me the bummers because legendary SNL actor Garrett Morris is on a piece of shit racist show and that the t-shirt is a joke that mocks addiction.

The "Drug Free" t-shirt photo is giving me a major case of the bummers, particularly since it was taken by a millionaire actress.

Go to google maps and type in Denny's Vancouver. Then type in Cactus Club or Joey's or Earl's or maybe this article from MacLeans that talks about the way "Vancouver-based Earl's" has changed its waitress aesthetics over the years:

In Vancouver, the city that I live and spend a lot of my time in, family restaurants are far and few between and most restaurants fall under the heading of what I'm talking about. Do you live in Vancouver? Do you regularly eat in Vancouver? I get that you think I'm over-generalizing, but I'm not.

What I think I love most of all is that he fails to recognize that the time he's talking about involved higher-paying jobs for men who got to go home to their housekeeper nanny-wife.

I never thought of this before, but is anyone else worried that this book tour might bring out some in-the-flesh MRA trolls?

Yep — everybody's got a great, "I saw a player trying to cheat on his wife at ____" story.

Pretty much. That's the only take-away: you're as happy as you want to be, and if everything is about reaching "perfection," you'll never be happy. It's hard to find the line between "unrealistic expectations" and "ambition," though.

In Vancouver?

Sorry, but I have a very hard time taking liberal arts criticism from a General Studies major. At my school, we called that the "anything'll do" degree.

For whatever reason they seem to be the norm in Vancouver. Trendy restaurants, hipster restaurants, douchebags-with-polos restaurants... they all employ wanna-be models and actresses.

Indeed.

Yeah — Cactus Club is infamous for that, because it's how they duck discrimination lawsuits.

There are three, but I'd classify Denny's as a family restaurant.

Literally every restaurant that isn't specifically listed as a "family restaurant" (and even some that are) in Vancouver is staffed by tall, thin goddesses paid to flirt as much as they are to bring you food. Unless you get into the super-high price ranges where waiters are over-40 professionals who know their shit.

And 98% of waitressing jobs are reserved for women who look like models.

Ironically, I live on the west coast of Canada, where it *should* be about "forever young," given the number of 40-somethings who do still act like they're in their 20s, but there's this decidedly un-hippie-ish pressure on women to also look like perfect made-up dolls in the business world. It's a very strange…

I think the major problem is that someone who didn't study in the liberal arts views it that way because they didn't stick around long enough to see that the real goal was to develop research, critical thinking, analytical and writing skills. And those skills are absolutely invaluable. Liberal Arts don't necessarily…