My BF used to do canvassing for political campaigns when he was younger. He tells me that in the wealthier areas, it was really common to have politically split households, always with the wife as the Democrat. This was before conservatives really dominating public discourse, so I imagine that it's the same now,…

If nothing else it's educational. I've never heard of "stannin" before.

You guys are more interesting than 90% of the BIs.

I just want to add to Rocza's point that they demanded privacy. They also then used the miscarriage and funeral to promote an anti-choice ideology. They made their politics more overt and if TLC can get something equally compelling for free, why wouldn't they.

My thoughts exactly. I'm learning that this country is utterly fucked. If people want to have 20 kids and can do so without state intervention, but the promotion of these families as reality fodder is disturbing.

Thanks for this. There seem to be a lot of people trying to explain away the nuttiness of this ad.

For me, the issue is that "skinny" & "fat" are more about optics and fat phobia than about health—that is they can be just aesthetic categories. It completely disposes with "fit" as the aspiration. There's no such thing as "fat-thin"—that is someone who is overweight or appears heavy but actually has significant…

I noticed that as well. He didn't seem to be as in the Stefon character as usual—not as twitchy. Still great fun though.

I was waiting for someone to explain to me how that was at all funny or even useful to put in tweetbeat.

Phunkshun below is starred, but comment appears in pink, so color me confused. However, I wanted to agree with his comment about us pining for someone who is long gone. Murphy seems to get the impulse to stretch himself and he gets put right back in the not-funny-family-movie box. I think not being recognized for…

Now you are making me want to gouge out my eyes. OTOH, it's sometimes useful when the inside and the match. Vicious toad.

Well, you can go with theories upthread—it will totally change the topic: [jezebel.com]

I have choice things to say about Sir Fenty, but don't want to lose my star for body-snarking.

If you are a starred commenter, comments from people entirely new to Jezebel show up in a pink box and they need to be "approved"before they can be seen by the regular commentors. I assume that this is to keep away trolls as much as possible. Sometimes you can see people posting the same comments multiple times…

For real. Although this thread displays what I was going to post. These hissy fits are less about Barnard than about Columbia's Ivy League/who's better anxiety overall. The students/faculty who care about such things are always comparing themselves to Harvard and Yale, universities that count more US presidents…

Ahh the cycle of misogyny continues—

I don't usually promote pink commenters, but don't know if the author (or others unfortunately in a similar position) can see this.

Thanks for calling this out. Sandra Fluke by no means deserved any of his vitriol, but he says awful shit about people of color and gays on the regular without losing any advertisers.

As others have said, they asked—even launching some petition drive. Amidst some of the vitriol, they might stop to wonder why says very little about CU in his writings or speeches. Perhaps he didn't like it there—and with comments like these, not hard to see why.

Thanks for this comment. I was scrolling and wondering what exactly the Barnard President is supposed to do about misogyny amongst a group of men—which I imagine exactly parallels the level of misogyny in the world.