Oooh, ooh, wasn't it also sinful to have sex on a woman's period, and that's where redheads come from? (I do not have a doctorate in Renaissance literature, but I do have a mind chockful of weird sex trivia.)

@PaulKinsey:disqus - You know, honestly, I probably would have preferred that they didn't bring Shirley's ex back in the picture at all, and not had the pregnancy plot in season 2, and had really focused on Shirley being a badass businesswoman and her friendships within the group.
I guess mentally I'd been thinking the…

@avclub-da496e2db2e50a068b4ae5549d4ae1b0:disqus  - Then why did the show have Jeff say, "Shirley, I'm the bad guy here, because I told the stripper to go contact the married guy?" Why didn't anyone on the show go, "wow, Andre was really sleazy there"?

Yeah, really, honestly, if the plot was going to go this way, I'd have much rather Shirley hadn't remarried Andre, because he just now seems like an absolute scumbucket for giving his number to a stripper. Jeff didn't cause Andre to do that, and he didn't cause Andre to cheat on his wife.

I had a really sour taste in my mouth when I realized that the show was telling us to blame Jeff for encouraging the stripper to contact Andre, but to absolve Andre for GIVING HIS NUMBER TO A STRIPPER.

Unsurprisingly, as she grew up, her songs started getting more mature and complex. Also unsurprisingly, these are the songs that never charted as singles and made her label drop her.

I'm really glad that Vanessa Carlton's "White Houses" was on the list — it's one of my favorites, precisely because it is so open and honest about sexuality. Every other song targeted towards the young, female demographic at the time (and probably still) was all about this baby-lite sexuality.

@avclub-2a6ac9e5324952e36b40237cf2fcdad8:disqus - http://tinypic.com/view.php…

Well, I could go on about how societal norms differ from region to region, and what is considered common courtesy in one area is incredibly rude in another, but by God, I kinda want to see the chaos in the wine aisle. Is small talk all that keeps us from shivving each other over the last bottle of Yellowtail? I'll…

There is a huge difference between an employer-mandated smile, eye contact, and "hi, my name is blahblah, how can I help you today?", and between continuing a conversation when the person you are providing a service for clearly does not want to talk anymore. If you really can't tell the difference between the two, and…

Yeah, the Elaine thing does hold true.

I was a service industry person too, and one of the many skills you're supposed to develop is to be able to tell when the other person would rather walk out over hearing one more inane question and chatter.

It's fair to say I misread her comment — what she said before that anecdote was, "Whereas some others, not just women, can giggle and brush it off so you don’t have that awkward moment, I’ll say, “That makes me uncomfortable,” or “Please don’t talk to me like that.”" That primed me to frame her next anecdote in a male…

Aren't you clever!

In context, it's pretty clear: she was talking about how she likes having boundaries, even if it means going against how women are usually socialized to act and having an awkward moment.

@Scrawler2:disqus - The saddest thing about Twitter was finding out Neil Gaiman is annoying.

Yeah, I keep clicking on links about her just so I can yell at my teenaged self, "YOU DESERVED TO BE HATED, BECAUSE YOU UNIRONICALLY LIKED SHIT LIKE THIS."

My parents are still married and having an unhealthily codependent relationship where they passive-aggressively insult my life choices and long-term partner.

TODD NEVER LEAVE US.

@RedScarab:disqus - Because Troy, a fictional character, both has more capacity for emotional depth and regards women as being more like real people, than you, apparently a human being, has the capacity for.