::atlas shrug::

You know you've been watching way too much Game of Thrones when you spend two seconds trying to figure out who the Game of Thrones character in the second picture is.

Awww! Yes, I had a crush on Will Turner, not Orlando.

And my ax!

Seconding the less gossip/more analysis on gossip stuff. I mean, I don't want to read about the Beyonce/Jay-Z potential divorce, it's none of my business. But an article about the strain that the wife's success puts on a marriage? Or about why we feel so invested in celebrity marriages? Sign me up.

We really really need someone who knows science.

Oh, and maybe expanding the Pissing Contest format - that is just gold. Leave the Pissing Contest the way it is, but also have another on a different day with a different, less jokey-competitive focus - because soliciting stories from the commenters makes the comment section so much more interesting, and it can be…

I'm so glad there are so many of us already! Less about looks, more about books.

I concur! [/LeoDiCaprio]

A science writer, please. A women's site that bemoans the lack of encouragement and support and opportunity for women in STEM fields is great - one that actually shares and does thoughtful analysis of scientific studies and new advances with a slant towards those that might be pertinent to women would be amazing.

I'd also like to see more posts about books. io9 does a great one every month with new SFF books. I'd like to see one on Jez every month that are themed i.e. Female authors (or whatever). A lot of us read and read a lot. It would be nice to have less Kardashian and more, well, anything really.

The Dawkins phase usually comes after the Ayn Rand phase. If you make it through, you get to the NdGT phase, where the cookies are delicious.

Why oh why must he be one of the most public faces of atheism?! Dude, you are not helping!

Everyone likes attention to a certain extent, and I'm sure most people would love to be the centre of attention once in a while because someone finds them obscenely attractive. But there is a difference between being the centre of attention for one night because you look good in your prom dress vs. being constantly…

If the ONLY thing people said about male soccer players was how hot they were; if soccer players asked that people stop talking about how hot they were and everyone continued to do so; if the achievements of male athletes were routinely ignored in favor of their looks/who they'd like to date, you'd be totally, 100%…

It reminds me of a Modern Family quote where the nerdy daughter is tutoring a boy she has a crush on and he ends up having a crush on her shallow older sister instead and she says to her dad "Dumb guys AND smart guys like dumb girls? What do smart girls get?" and her dad is like "Cats."

Yup. When you're the one initiating contact, you get to actually choose your target (so to speak) and thus have a degree of control over the situation. That alone can really making talking to a stranger less stressful. And with social protocol mostly being that the other person needs to be polite (even if they don't…

This gif and the movie it came from make me stupidly happy. Eartha Kitt was a gift to humanity.

It's horrifying and I wish that the violence wouldn't have escalated to this point but my first thought was that MAYBE these governments will start giving a damn. The kidnapping of political figures and their wives isn't going to fly with a lot of countries. These might be the events that make neighboring countries…

That's great, but I have a few issues here: