Well, sure - that's why I compared it to the Bechdel test. It's just a litmus test for representation. A movie can pass the Bechdel test but still be horribly sexist, but if a movie can't pass the Bechdel test, then in all likelihood it has got some systemic sexism built into it.

I'm really enjoying the new season so far, and pretty disappointed that they dropped coverage - it seemed like it was getting decent traffic on the site last year.

I used to go to a friend's house on Veronica Mars nights, but now we never watch anything when it's actually on tv, because tv primetime is right at the same time as "try to get the toddler to sleep" time.

The Sunny characters are waaay worse than the Happy Endings characters. It's quite possibly the most extreme you can get in the direction of playing unlikeable and negative qualities for laughs. For example, there's a running gag now about the possibility that one character might be a serial killer (the…

Tokenism reflects on the organization, not the individuals who get hired. And I'd love to talk to them and share gripes from our experiences being "the girl" in the group - the only job I've had so far where I didn't feel like the token woman was when it was my own company.

It's especially baffling because so many of the same people claim to be "good Christians", which means they should value charity and compassion.

Well, all you need is one group that has more than just a single token woman, and then for those women to eat lunch with the whole group, not just their female coworkers. I've seen a tech company pass the test once, but that's it so far.

One of my friends from college turned into an anti-vaxxer after graduation - it's mind-blowing. He's a math major, for crying out loud, and he's sending me these "studies" with some of the worst statistics work I've ever seen. He should retroactively lose his diploma for that shit. But, we don't socialize anymore,…

Intellectually, I understand how important it is to try and build bridges instead of demonizing the "other side", but that sort of attitude makes it really hard, because I just don't want to build a connection to anyone who views empathy and compassion as weakness and a burden.

How easy or hard it is to fire someone varies greatly from state to state. It's really tough in Massachusetts, for example - the place I was at in the 2008-ish timeframe took advantage of the economic downturn to fire a couple people because they hadn't done anything bad enough to be fire-able, but had been really…

Hmm…on the one hand, there's your youtube video and a bunch of biased and outdated studies by people who are just trying to prove that they're superior and justified in their prejudices, and on the other hand there's plenty of studies showing that there are clear biases in the hiring process against women and…

Oh, it's not that bad - they've got a sprinkler systems set up, and people take turns tossing him some fish on their way to get coffee.

It was a couple years ago, but the last time I was in Google's lunchroom they entirely failed my personal tech company "lunchroom Bechdel test" - is there any group of people having lunch that's even-split between men and women. Like the normal Bechdel test, it doesn't seem like it should be a hard requirement to…

I thought they were filled with "All work and no play makes George a dull boy." ?

If Angelyne had passed away, that would be one thing, but I agree that this seems ethically questionable. Especially if her "Angelyne" persona was adopted to escape past traumas, this seems like someone callously ignoring that need for separation.

But when do you look at ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs that explain an awful curse/lead to an alien artifact that was left here thousands of years ago?

When reporters ask if they can get some footage of you "hacking something" they're always sooo disappointed at the results. Then it's all, "could you write something good-looking on that whiteboard and have a pretend discussion with your officemate about it?".

I know that every portrayal I've seen of hackers and computer security work has been entirely accurate. I just occasionally have to duck under my desk if a particularly large equation is flying by overhead.

He didn't actually test that "I could shoot a guy in time square and get away with it" theory - that's sort of, almost, something?

I'm not taking anything personally, but I do admit to being pretty confused. Hardwick and Oswalt strike me as being pretty genuinely into the things they geek out about, pop culture-wise (I have 0 opinions about Josh Gad, except that the "fat guy" bit seems gratuitous). Some other celebrities can strike a pretty…