I know this is probably pretty low on the list of offensive things in this book, but I haaaate the whole son/daughter double standard. My parents were like that to my sister and I always tried to stand up for her when Mom wouldn't let her and her boyfriend (whom she's still with six years later, they just got…

I like sandwiches and all, but... that's too many sandwiches. 300 burritos, though, that is love. Not necessarily romantic love. Just wet, sloppy, burrito love.

I'm no grammarfuhrer, but seriously his "misuse" of "quotation" marks is driving me insane.

No gambling, stripping, OR threeways? What is this guy, Ned Flanders?
Just kidding, Flanders wasn't a racist douche.

Well, true, but they didn't have to be twins.

Are they? I always feel like we're supposed to be laughing at the gang, not with them, and I don't think we're supposed to want them to succeed in anything they do, at least not usually. Interviews I've read with the cast have said the same thing, that the point of the show is that the gang are destroying…

Hey Arnold was my favorite show as a kid, too. I lived in a small Georgia town which was pretty much all white. I don't remember really noticing the characters races on Hey Arnold, I just remember it really made "the city" seem like this awesome place to live.

I'm not sure the majority of people think white men are more relatable, I think the networks are just inherently racist and sexist and use that as an excuse. Admittedly, I'm probably just playing devil's advocate here because I'm a straight white guy, but I am one who desperately wants to see more diversity in…

Ah, okay. Like SaltoHawkeye, I misunderstood what you meant (and wondered why you'd be damning the show if your name was rokokobang, hahaha), but when you clarify it like this I totally agree.

I agree with all of this, but now I really want to see a Sunny-style dark comedy with an all-female cast.

Normally I'd totally agree here, but I'm going to make an exception for Sunny. The pilot (and to some extent the early episodes) of the show were made on no budget, practically a home video. So, the three creators of the show, as well as one of their wives, played the main quartet of characters. If they'd changed…

Not to mention three of the four main characters are the creators of the show, and the fourth is the wife of one of the three. The pilot was made on a miniscule budget, and the early episodes were very cheap, so they just acted themselves instead of hiring actors. The fifth character was added in the second season,…

I don't think anyone was promoting it as a bastion of feminism, just as an example of a show were the women are treated in the exact same fashion as the men. Everyone on the show (or all the main characters at least) are sociopaths completely destroying their own and each other's lives. Dee's flaws are the same as…

Girls got associated with pink sometime around 1940:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/W…

I'm white and southern, too, and I pretty much live off the stuff.

I agree with both you and LaComtesse, but I do think she is being victimized by the media and the internet. She didn't burn anyone's house down, she performed a (mild) public sex act. Whether she brought it on herself is irrelevant, because what she did shouldn't really be all that big a deal. It shouldn't be…

Not to mention that, beyond social pressure, drugs and alcohol were almost surely involved. I've never done anything like this, but I have done some things while black-out drunk that I'd rather not be famous for.

No one's saying she should have done it. They're saying why is she raked over the coals for it and not him? He wasn't being molested, he was clearly an active participant.

Now that said, I don't think either of them should be raked over the coals. They're young and did something stupid, but the police stopped it and…

Oh, really? I didn't know that, but it actually makes perfect sense!

My hat today? Flat cap. Perfect bad hair day hat.

It's seriously disheartening how many women buy into the "It's okay for a man to be assertive, but a women who does it is a bitch" bullshit. You especially hear it from teenagers and college aged girls saying, with pride, "Oh, I only have guy friends, girls are the worst."

I probably have more male friends than…