Because victims of sex crimes should not be identified against their will.

This wasn't backstage fighting stuff (though there are a lot of rumors about those!), this was Matthew Weiner saying in an interview with someone, possibly Alan Sepinwall, that he was surprised at the divide in the writers' room when he showed them BBB: a lot of the writers had essentially the reaction that Peggy had…

This would be the best of all worlds.

One critical analysis that I really liked said that Don hugging Leonard was a pivotal moment precisely *because* it was the first time that Don was actually expressing emotion as a way to connect with someone else that wasn't about him — where he was actually in the moment as opposed to telling people "this never…

It was the same thing with the Bye Bye Birdie thing in season 3 — he really, sincerely enjoyed it, and thought that the writers in the room who hated it just didn't get it. Sometimes Mad Men was an amazingly detailed and thought-provoking TV show, and sometimes it was indulging Matt Weiner's personal interests.…

Wow, thank you for that well-researched and factually-based assertion. It reminds me of that part in my biology textbook where I learned that the double-X chromosome means that little girls only like princesses and that the fragility of the Y-chromosome means that if little boys touch an action figure based on a…

I have to say, I get really angry at feminists who pillory Joss Whedon and single him out as the worst thing ever/claim he should never make movies or TV shows or art ever again…but then go watch Michael Bay movies. Joss Whedon is imperfect, we can call out when he's imperfect, he admits that he's imperfect…but why…

Normally I'd agree, but marketing executives aren't necessarily using data, they rely on stereotypes. Little girls like princesses, little boys don't, if there's no gender overlap then families have to buy more toys and products! Marketing executives aren't reflecting reality, they're constructing it for us.

Shh, shh, your experiences mean nothing when compared to marketing executives' powerpoints!

But you could get a medal for birthing many children! Especially if you're blonde!

They're following Netflix order. I do not understand Netflix order at all. At one point Netflix had the series roughly in production order, and then they got really confused with the new seasons and the movies and screwed it up. Apologies if this has been discussed before and I missed it, but why oh why does Netflix…

If you actually think that this episode was about Amy Schumer feeling overlooked by the entertainment industry, you probably also think that 12 Angry Men was about how difficult life can be for the bailiff.

Yeah, really, my biggest problem with AOU is that they didn't have a reason for Chris Evans to be shirtless, too.

Fair enough, I agree with you that he seems inconsistent and occasionally shoehorned into plots and situations, though I think the blatant horndog aspect of his character has been present since at least season 4., and how he treated Megan is consistent with that aspect of his character. (He hasn't had an actress on…

That makes sense, thank you for pointing that out!

I respectfully disagree: Joan's friendship with another woman got her the Avon account, it was her loyalty to Peggy that kept her from bonding with the other McCann Erickson female creatives, and she's generally quite nice to all the women in the office (except Meredith) and was good friends with several of the…

Agreed, and part of this is that if characters acted perfectly, they wouldn't be interesting to watch. Joan acted exactly how she's always acted when she had a problem with a man in the office — that's her problem. But even if she'd been more diplomatic here, she almost certainly would have ended up in the same dead…

I have worked with people who were brilliant but emotionally unstable, who caused more work and issues for everyone around them while they're having a tantrum better cured by therapy. These people eventually got fired, but caused hell in the meantime for everyone else. Because of this, I have had no problem with Joan…

I've heard of (and known, though very few) the type of woman you're referring to, but I've never heard "dumb blonde" being used as anything other than a straightforward description. If you've been using it in that way, you may need to apologize to blondes in your life.

After hearing just a few of the stories from my friends on what it's really like growing up in a Quiverfull home, it has become my life mission to go into places where otherwise intelligent and kind people are discussing how much they love the Duggars and completely destroy their enjoyment of the show by pointing out…