This has often been my experience, too. I don't know how many times over the years I asked—clear, polite please-and-thank-you asking, before some troll decides to call me a nag, as so often happens 'round these parts—my husband to tackle specific tasks while I'm doing others to make pre-company cleanup quicker and,…

I suspect that with couples who have children, many women's leisure time is spent being essentially on-call regarding the kids' needs. So they may have leisure time, but it is more likely to be interrupted.

Anecdotally, at least, more of the housework still seems to fall to the woman in those cases.

I think it's less about how they look and more about how they feel (though, yes, different lighting can make clothing look different). I know I've tried things on in stores, bought them, then found out they start to ride up or wrinkle or something after an hour or two of wear.

I don't think it's so much that more men than women try comedy as it is that there's a lot of sexism in the comedy community, which tends to push women out. Just doing a Google search for "sexism in comedy" brings up tons of articles about the problem.

Actually, the skills one needs in comedy (good timing, good delivery, an eye for detail, etc) ARE ones that apply to telling funny stories to one's friends. There are quite a few comedians whose schtick consists of telling funny stories well.

I liked that touch, too :D

I think you're definitely on to something, there.

Sadly true, and I think it comes down to lack of empathy on the part of people who would ask that question.

Right, I agree—that's why I said it's a BIG "maybe".

No one is demanding that Bolotow be neutral. The problem is that she was portrayed, in the article as being at least potentially far more neutral than she is. She was only referred to as an assistant, not as his frequent model and girlfriend.

In some cases, they also feared for their physical safety in the present, not just the future of their careers.

The only case where I could see it MAYBE making sense (and that's a big "maybe") is if someone has a bunch of kids and they are neglectful and/or abusive and/or aren't paying child support. Here, they're bringing something completely unrelated to the case they're trying in as a bargaining tool. Nope. Not cool.

I think you're thinking of Papa John's.

Aah...yeah, I'd forgotten how really, REALLY young a lot of new recruits are (and that one might expect their girlfriends to also be). And the rushed nature/urgency of some of these relationships, due to imminent deployment, is a good point. It seems like a lot of them just don't get to know each other well enough.

As someone who can't ride a bike because I end up with pubic pain for days afterward, I hate to say, as ugly as those are...they might actually be useful.

Yup. Because the fact that no one told a CHILD about big, heavy, dark adult things TOTALLY means it never happened, right?

Presumably the soldiers are attracted to these women who are attracted to them, if they end up dating. Obviously it is solely the women's responsibility if they treat these guys badly—I don't dispute that—but where is the responsibility of the soldiers in being attracted to women who are bad for them?

We also don't know why they broke up. Was he a huge asshole? Not that it would make her selling his dog out from under him okay (SHE is responsible for her choices, NOT him), but, if he treated her badly it could explain why she felt no compunctions about hurting his feelings.

At least the point was that Willow had no fashion sense.