James Franco totally wants to be Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Both kind of pretty, both dabble in indie and mainstream films, both have faced gay rumors from time to time. But whereas JGL seems relatively quiet but then makes these smart, insightful, self-aware comments about show business, Franco is all, "Hey, I'm more than…

Gina Torres basically played a (bad-guy) superhero on Alias - she was Sydney's main antagonist at many points, a Cuban-Russian superspy named Anna Espinosa.

God, BBWhatsit, that's horrible. For what it's worth, most of us try to be sensitive to students' personal difficulties and make allowances for those while still, in general, working to maintain general standards for timeliness and quality in class work. The thing about dayman_nm's post is that I can totally see being…

FYI, there are also college professors who read Jezebel. We're already wise to the dead grandmother excuses and their ilk, but I'd never thought of this approach before. So...thanks for the heads up?

I almost never wear make-up, except once in a blue moon when I attend a professional event or a wedding (and even then, it's minimal - maybe mascara or tinted moisturizer, eyeliner if I'm feeling fancy). I've never understood how women who wear make-up regularly manage to get through the day without rubbing it off all…

Yes, many same-sex parents raising children will do better because their children are "wanted" children. However, consider that - particularly among low-income LGBT folks and people of color (and in more conservative parts of the country), gay and lesbian couples are more likely to be raising the biological children…

MIT also has the Chorollaries. Yay for music+math puns!

Re: the Buffy & Spike scene, I know! Why would someone make a gif of such an awful, upsetting moment? Kind of a different context than the rest of the gifs here, y'know?

Is it just me, or does the reimagined Cinderella look exactly like Taylor Swift?

That makes two of us! That movie is one of my guilty pleasures, and I'm proud to say I knew (of) her all the way back then. Less fortunate was her appearance in Crossroads (a.k.a. the Britney Spears movie)...I try not to think about that.

Yes, prevention is cheaper than the cure... but screenings don't prevent disease. They detect it.

I know, right? My first thought was: "Maybe he was just trying to help the nice lady fit into some pretty glass slippers?"

Is it me, or do these toxic beauty product updates sound kind of like the Joker's diabolical plan to poison Gothamites via their makeup? Any one on its own may not be so bad, but in combination...

This makes me realize: young(er) Sean Bean actually looks quite a bit like Nathan Fillion.

People have posted a lot of good suggestions here, but I'll echo some: Sex isn't a conquest, and it's not a win-lose game. Good sex is when both (or however many) participants have fun, explore their desires, etc.; bad sex is when one or more don't. Imagine having that as part of a sex ed curriculum, instead of the…

Don't know why it deleted the book title, but I'll try it again: Pricing Beauty

She's talking about Ashley Mears, a sociologist whose 2011 book,

Yes, some people abuse the service dog thing, but we can't assume that's the case here. Service dogs do a lot more than guide people with vision problems, including, yes, providing emotional support, they also help out with a variety of invisible health conditions and disabilities (for example: medical alert dogs can…

Call me nitpicky, but can we drop the "girlcrush" language? It's basically a way of saying, "Hey, I can admire another woman, but that doesn't make me GAY." But plenty of Jezzies *are* gay, and I'd hope the rest could be comfortable (and feminist) enough to complement another woman without saying, essentially, "no…

I was once #3, the acceptable infidel. My gay friend wanted to go, and I decided to go with her. A few months later, we were a couple (and I was definitely, DEFINITELY, no longer "straight"). Six years later, we're still going strong.