It seems like maybe it's gotten better in more recent years, but the portrayal of the female characters was really awful for a long time. Bernadette, for example, is supposedly very smart and accomplished, but is a character still mostly defined by who she's in a relationship with, even after being a regular on the…

Yesterday my frustrated toddler told me that no, her diaper wasn't poopy, she's just doing a new dance. Parenthood is mostly pretty funny so far.

I like Wondermark's "multi-purpose" greeting cards where you can check the boxes for the appropriate sentiments:
Just a {simple/furious/poetic} {ping/note/polemic} to say: {Things are better/Things are worse/I need more money}!

So, leaving aside the fact that yes, it is rape, are you saying that if it were just slavery, it'd be ok?

But do you think he still makes the teenager working at coldstone mix it up and everything?

I get where you're coming from with that - and, in a way, you're working in the direction I suggest by going to that yoga class and chatting with people. Basically, if this woman isn't interested in you romantically, she still might like you as a friend, and it's important to recognize that as a kind of success in…

First, good on you for having the guts to try for crepes!

I know! Y comes after X - it seems like a no-brainer. We don't need a new (unpronounceable) label, when we already have a perfectly good one.

Our trailers were mostly for horror movies, but there was a trailer for the new Bladerunner in there, so there was at least one where I was interested. Saw ads up for that Emoji movie when I was in the city for lunch, and man, how is it that Patrick Stewart is playing a pile of poop in a movie? I have less than 0…

I'm really sorry that it didn't work out - it's still good to give it a try and take the risk, but I know it hurts when the answer's "no".

It might just be the thing where such good initial buzz has set expectations too high. But, fwiw, I really enjoyed it, and would wholeheartedly recommend it.

The bit about the plot was a major point in its favor for me - I'm so sick of them just having every movie be about everyone hunting/fighting over some infinity stone or stone-related artifact. That was my biggest issue with the 1st GotG, so I was really happy that they fixed that here.

I saw a movie when it came out! That never happens, even before parenthood. But yeah, Baby Driver was really fun - amazing choreography, and just a lot of fun. I liked the description of "car chase musical".

The hacking bits in Blackhat weren't as embarrassing as they normally are in movies, but as a movie it was … not great.

…and cocaine

Whoever they paid to design it could've meant that, even if they didn't get the joke. Although, that assumes some sort of graphic designer was involved in the process.

One of my cousins names her kids after constellations. She's pregnant, so we're all trying to guess what girl's name she's going to go with this time, after Cassiopeia and Orion.

Well, she's a pretty terrible model, so I wouldn't call that a "real job", but totally agree about her having no chance at a sane life, given how everything was set up by her older family members.

Proposing the after class crepes is fine - she's probably hungry after a workout too. Just be prepared that she might have alternate plans in place already. If she's interested in you, then it'd be her turn to make a counter-proposal (like, "I can't right now, but maybe we could do…"). But, if she's into you, it's…

She probably should have provided more specifics, but I don't really think that in this case she was the one who was being judgy.