One the one hand, these movies provide a great vehicle for films with a female lead and often with many female supporting characters, without having to fight studio executives about it. Even though a central element of the plot is frequently a romance, the women still end up being pivotal characters often with a lot…

I think it's a shame Betty had her mid-life-crisis-bitch-implosion last season because I think she'd really enjoy being a political wife. She is all about artifice and image. That's the woman that hosted the "around the world" party. I think she needs to construct her world and have a degree of control over it, and…

Betty followed the Woman Script and having to live the behind-the-scenes shattered her. She should never have had kids. She resents the hell out of them, and her relationship with Sally is just getting more and more twisted. It's a funny and a little sickening to watch Sally fight back using Betty's own methods and…

We've seen the immaturity accusation firsthand. Every time Betty expressed dissatisfaction with her life, both her therapist and Don called her a child. If she was frustrated, she was called spoiled and her outbursts were described as "tantrums." Now sure, sometimes they were, and as the series progressed that…

I think they're pretty great. These are the dolls I would have LOVED. I was into comic books, monster movies, sci-fi, science, and while I still wore dresses Barbie never felt like "me." This pristine, pink world Barbie lived in didn't interest me at all.

I was always interested in the early seasons when Betty would talk about her life before Don, with modeling and travel, and she would just light right up. The episode where she and Don are in Italy and she's a completely different person. That was the life she wanted, and the life that Don still gets to participate…

I liked Betty at first, but as the seasons moved forward she became pretty hate-able. I had a lot of sympathy for her. She was constantly frustrated, Don was dismissive of her and undermining her with her therapist, her suspicions about Don's infidelity and then her certain of it without ever being able to prove it.…

I'm partial to "ronronner," the verb meaning "to purr."

This actually provides some much needed context to their "bat his penis back and forth between your hands"* tip.

BZZZ. WRONG. That's one of the "stuff you think he wants in bed...BUT REALLY DOESN'T!" things. You silly creature, correcting this sort of urban legend is exactly what Cosmo is for.

I used a twin until second year in college and I had to buy a bed for my apartment, and then it was halfway between a twin and a full. But it was the cheapest one I could find and therefore I didn't care what size it was. http://www.kmart.com/elite-products-e-frame-combo-twin/p-1100000553503050P

This seems bizarre to me given the prevalence/popularity of the S.I.S dolls in my area. The line does well enough to continue its existence, I'm stunned they don't make similar associated merchandise for it as they do for Barbie herself. It's not hard to swap out the headshot.

It's weird to realize how many fail the test, even though some of them are brilliant films. The only Hitchcock movies I can think of off the bat that pass are Rebecca and The Birds.

Just because your surrogate-child-monkey doesn't learn how to speak English, use the potty and attend Harvard Law doesn't mean the monkey doesn't grow up, you deluded narcissists.

What's really crazy is that those two women are in scenes together, just the two of them, and they STILL don't talk. Not even a throw away sentence, "so, how about that sun, yeah?" It doesn't even pass the unmodified test. I know the stretches of silence were part of the film, meant to stress the loneliness and…

"Sunshine" had two women in the main cast, and I really liked Michelle Yeoh's character. Easily they could have included more women in the ship's crew, though I do appreciate the ethnic diversity. Sadly, though this is a good movie, it still doesn't pass the Bechdel Test. Corazon and Cassie don't even talk…

A service animal is very different from an animal in residence. I can move away from a service animal, a service animal sheds in limited quantities and is in a public space for a limited amount of time. A pet in residence embeds its allergens everywhere, in everything. You cannot move away from the problem and as…

I had classes until six and a couple until nine in the evening, plus homework (admittedly of my own volition, I did what I could not to have too many morning classes). College was crammed with work, and on my off time I edited the school anthology. I made friends in college, but I didn't really date much. I did end…

We could pass a law. Everyone with an ivy league education wears a bell. Everyone with a doctorate wears chimes. It's like walking into a store, only it's men. Ah, the gentle jingle of appropriate husbands...it's music to my dowry....

I take a class weekly that has a woman like you in it. She's so severely allergic to cats that if the other students have any at home, she can't sit near them because her eyes will start tearing up and she'll being to wheeze. The students were all as accommodating as they could be, hanging coats up outside the room…