Oh, I am totally with you on quality time! My husband and I have definitely had those kinds of evenings where we were both on our computers the whole time, and then we end up kind of missing each other even though technically we were together for hours.

I hold it in for the loud talkers, but once someone starts playing games or music on their phones without headphones, it’s no holds barred.

Wow, I really thought your take on that story was gonna be a lot different. I would be soooo pissed if someone followed me into the bathroom to ask me for a favour. That is a fucking weird thing to do.

That’s the joke. It’s funny specifically because it is a self-aware subversion of a misogynistic (and, one could argue, racist) standard. And because Colin Jost is in on the joke. It would not be funny if she was making real, unscripted overtures that surprised Jost and made him uncomfortable.

From my perspective, though, I am always with my husband. Which is great, because I love him a lot! But if being physically around him always had to translate to being “with” him, I would never have any down time. I don’t know if that is the OP’s situation, but for me, there are plenty of times when my husband and I…

Oh man, my sister and I had to go through so much dumb shit before we could like each other as adults. Just...so much.

When I was 24, I was in grad school and hanging out with another 30+-year-old grad student. He invited his boyfriend and his boyfriend’s friends to drink with us. I obviously did not guess that his boyfriend was 20 years old, because why would I, and I ended up hooking up with one of boyfriend’s friends.

(as in met online and proposed online without ever meeting in person).

I don’t think I said anywhere that any other country is worse than America.

I don’t think that I was making a knock at other countries as much as at people who idealize other countries. It is hardly a damning criticism to say that no country is a utopia. Nor have I claimed that America is number 1. Disagreeing with you is not being a stereotype, no matter how hard you try to set it up so that…

I am referring to the list you opened this thread with: trans people, gay people, non-white people.

I think I’ve gotten all the replying out of my system, but who knows? Maybe they’ll come back with a crackpot response I didn’t anticipate, and I’ll get sucked back in even though I know they’re trolling.

I don’t know why we’re both still doing this. The OP either can see what we’re saying and is straight trolling, or he is so dense that we’ll never be able to get through to him. And yet...we both keep trying so hard.

I think you are wilfully disregarding the fact that men are well represented in the entertainment industry, making this a completely different situation than that of minority or oppressed groups.

No of course that isn’t the reason. I’m just saying that 14-year-old boys on tv are almost never played by 14-year-olds. You didn’t actually bring up the middle eastern descent portion in your original comment, I assumed because Nasim Pedrad is Iranian American.

Oh, I wasn’t trying to contest the idea that racism might be at play here. I definitely think it is.

Oh man, ALL I want to do is hang out with them and listen to their opinions on various subjects. I just feel like it would be a good time. I am fascinated by the way that she holds and portrays herself while saying things about hell. Something about it is enthralling to me.

Not as good of a headline, I guess. For whatever reason, people are really into the possibility of the man knowing first.

Almost never is a 14-year-old character on a TV show played by a 14-year-old. Child labor laws are too strict, and actually 14-year-old boys don’t look like they forgot to shave that morning, which is generally the look that TV shows go for.