I really think teenagers are like any other age group, they range from freaking crazy to pretty normal. Certain cases of crazy behavior get sensationalized in the media and make people think that represents the whole group, when it’s really just a small percentage. Most teenagers aren’t goading their boyfriends into…

I’m surprised she’s never hooked up with a guy over 50 (unless she’s lying). I thought that was like a standard thing among dedicated party girls...or maybe that’s just the ones in my family.

I feel like with Rory, they are more likely to do something like: Rory was doing well in her career, but then something goes wrong and she loses her job (because print is dying, or whatever) and has to figure out what to do next. In her personal life, she hasn’t found “the One” yet, having been so busy with work.

Do you have any of her books that you would especially recommend? I haven’t read her yet, mainly because to me her books have always seemed more dystopian or grounded in the real world, and when I read sci fi I like it to be truly out-of-this-world fantastical, like, say, Dune or the works of Joan D. Vinge...but I am…

The first one is all right, provided you get super high prior to watching

And, not to mention, there are enough non white actors on the cusp of stardom or who are plenty well known who could easily go that one step up into marquee/franchise actor. Like, how many people on the internet had been dying for Idris Elba as James Bond?

I get jealous because my dad does not express emotions unless he’s pissed off. Or excited about something related to sports...

I fully agree, however in my experience it’s not even just girls. I grew up in a cold place (Canada) and inevitably at school there was always some dude just wearing his gym shorts...in the snow. In winter, kids routinely wore way thinner and smaller jackets than were realistically appropriate (or none at all). I…

See, I figured this out when I was about 13-14. I remember opening my diary and making a list of the things in my life that made me happy, and being like, “Okay. There are three or four of these things from which my happiness comes. If one disappears, I still have the others. So I don’t need to be too worried. But…

Yeah, I’ve had lots of apartments that didn’t have one. Current place has a non-working one, don’t really care cause it’s still an awesome place that I have all to myself for cheap.

Was being a bit tongue-in-cheek, but yes, that certainly clarifies things.

Is it sad that my first thought was, you can get a studio in NYC for $833? How? How does one do this?

This. I am always amazed when a supposedly feminist site like this one will make entire posts basically making fun of some random famous woman. No, the fact that she’s privileged does not make it ok. You are still tearing down another woman just for kicks, because you’re bored, because clickbait. (Btw, I’m not…

I feel that a lot of the things that women encounter in public are regional/ cultural. Some of the discussions on Jez about things that happen “all the time” only really happened to me often or at all when I was living in major cities in the US. Catcalling...yeah, it happened a lot when I lived in NYC and it was…

I thought everyone had agreed it should be Anthony Ingruber

Yes! Loved that one.

Dowager Empress Cixi of China. She became an imperial concubine as a teenager, staged a coup at age 25, and then proceeded to effectively rule China behind a series of puppet-emperors through the Victorian Age. If that doesn’t deserve a TV show then I don’t know what.

I find him handsome, but not in the pic attached to this article. I don’t know what is going on there, he looks like a bro-y cast member of The Hills.

These t-shirts are crap. But seriously, being an artist is hard. I am one...I treat it as a side business (yes, I do get paid for it, regularly) because I just don’t see it ever becoming my whole income. People say I should try, but I don’t think they realize how much I would have to charge per painting for that to be…

I doubt I’ll ever attend a reunion. I was quiet and didn’t have a lot of close friends in high school, but I had a decent number of people I was on ‘friendly’ terms with, or at least tried to be, and at the time their approval was important to me. Now because of facebook and the small size of our city/ graduating…