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Portia's sort of the ethical ancestor for Mussolini, strange to find modern ppl sympathizing with her instead of Shylock….

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you have an inability to put two ideas together:

no the adjective 'rich' is qualifying, according to the rules of grammar

but you understand that 'rich adolescent girls' are a subset of 'adolescent girls', right? and that 'rich american adolescent girls' are another, even smaller, subset? and if you tried harder to think in particularities instead of generalities, you might even get to what i said earlier, that perhaps Julie is just a…

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all good points.

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'PETA' 'jezebel'— could you have a more cliche reaction?

No, it's the lame drama.

The theme of 'favors' made me think about the concept of karma (even if it wasn't explicitly the conclusion built into the episode). People often misunderstand karma as the idea that you should do good deeds to get something good in return & avoid bad deeds if you want to avoid something bad in return. But karma is…

i thought it was totally contrived too; but maybe that's cause my childhood female friends were normal people who would've been actually studying for the UN meeting. this was much more evocative of how rich kids treat each other.

yes reference to the simpsons crazy cat lady, good job *eyeroll*

i know, i love ppl being like 'she got that cat! her mother was right!'

cool thanks

nice of weiner & co to drop the big thematic overtures for a week & give us such a character-based episode

dan harmon tweeting his demands while drunk in an airport is already hilarious

no you're insane for trying to characterize me as being on summer break from school & my friends as too young to 'get into gay bars' & to suggest that something changes in a gay man's moral character & attitude towards women once they socialize with gay men. nice hail mary