Hot Take: don’t distract from labor rights and worker protections by claiming a job is so demeaning it shouldn’t exist. Labor is not degrading; labor for little or no pay, without health and safety protections, with harassment and abuse is degrading.

Joan was being sarcastic when she said she would abandon her son. At least I took it that way.

I want to be you when I grow up, with the majestic long silver-streaked hair. :D

Also, star this comment if you went to Catholic school and still remember how much fucking time you'd be spending in chapel this week.

And while we're still at it, let it also be said that Madonna has done it without being 1) a Disney creation, 2) groomed by a parental manager or 3) married to a man in the business who either paid for her progress or assisted her through connections. And no, Sean Penn doesn't count.

Madonna created it. The rest just follow.

I like Madonna's efforts to defy the All About Eve narrative generally thrust upon competing older/younger entertainers. Her collaborations with younger performers brings continuity, generosity and a kind of sympático to a process commonly depicted as ugly and cutthroat.

Shhh, child. She *made* millennial culture to a very great extent - whatever you think you can claim, she probably did it first. She's never played by the same rules as everyone else, and that includes coming up with her own definition of mid-fifties life. Be happy she exists rather than resenting her for - what?…

jealous? Women who complain about other women "not acting their age" usually have some personal issues of their own. MYOB

Joni is a genius and a legend. She is also more than a little nuts and a lot narcissistic, so the stuff about identifying with black men is your basic crazy talk.

I will watch just for Missy. Typically, I don't bother with the halftime show. I LUV U, MISSY.

Me before:

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It was particularly notable in the first series how her behaviors and personality- mirrored isn't really the right word - compares to Spectors. They're both cool and methodical (him with his dummy and drawings, her with the research board and getting the nail polish) yet they're not at all alike in so may other ways…

OMG I TOTALLY AGREE! And I've been dying to discuss the show since finishing series two a few days ago. SPOILER: That ending, though - top notch. Two people in trouble and Stella running to help them, but can only attend to one person, and seeing who she runs to help....

I think it was done more as a comparison to how Stella handled rejection after an arguably inappropriate advance on her friend and colleague versus the later scene where Jim Burns won't take Stella's "No" and she has to punch him in the nose to get him to stop. When Reed says she can't do this, Stella accepts her no.…

Dude I would finish it faster but I have a sick cat and just started dating a cool guy so things are Going On In My Life. Plus I had to watch all of Broad City this week.

The bit I replayed was when she's surrounded by that group of thugs near the Brawley house and she just makes the tiiiniest lunge towards the Head Thug ... and he reels back in disbelief. I had to watch that over and over.

Poor little Olivia! Then there's the amazingness that is Archie Panjabi. I could talk about this show all day.

Yes! That needs to be a gif as well. Her tone was perfected...not angry rather completely exasperated that men cannot stop acting like idiots.