@moonkitten: I'm disgusted by the either/or presentation of this. Can Planned Parenthood not provide health care to the minor "prostitute" in question and report suspected child prostitution to local law enforcement/the FBI? Why does reporting a possible crime have to mean denial of care?

@Morning Gloria: I thought Glenn Breast was a brand of free-range chicken available at Whole Foods. Fox News just has no respect for trademarks, does it?

It's rational for women Senators to band together, to come to one another's defense in the Senate, and to avoid attacking one another in the media. So why is it in their interest? What do they have to gain from working with their female colleagues? For one, all women face similar challenges in the Senate, like casual…

@just-a-plaid: It is possible, but I don't think that's what the ad is communicating. Mommy in the kitchen is fixing a sandwich (lunch? snack?) and is wearing "frumpy" clothes that suggest being at home. Pretty solid "stay-at-home-mom" cues.

@integrandia: Well, not necessarily, because ads do play on the assumptions of the audience. Given that we live in a gendered world, and there are cues that can be put in the ads like pink rooms, and the "brother invading sister's room" is a common trope ... it isn't unreasonable to think that's the intended…

@singing_femmebot: I agree that mini-Vader's gender is ambiguous. That might not even be mini-Vader's room, and mini-Vader could still be a girl.

@clairedeloony: I don't think we know that that is mini-Vader's room, though. I watched it again, and didn't see anything that looked like a stormtrooper on the bed ...

@sexysecularist: I don't think it's definitive that that is mini-Vader's room. It's ambiguous at best. (As singing_femmebot noted.)

This is a very good ad. I do wish, though, that the family set-up had not been "Mommy in the kitchen, Daddy at work." C'mon, Volkswagen, you can be more progressive than that.

That hair is a Homeland Security "yellow alert" all by itself. It's certainly elevated.

I think it is unintentionally brilliant as an illustration of the utter ridiculousness of global consumer capitalism. Silly Egyptians, you're not political actors, you're consumers! No one would ever get excited about politics, but they would riot for jackets ... possibly made from textiles produced right there! In…

@blah: I am seeing middle Dylan.

Why public knowledge of sizes as Jenna Fischer describes is not the same issue for men as it for women:

@Artemis47: More Eleanor Roosevelt. Less ... everyone else.

@RedTide: I see your point more clearly now. I think that there's a very fine line between being a victim and feeling like a victim. Kim said she felt like she had been taken advantage of by W and those involved in the shoot, and if she feels that way, I think we should take her at her word. You're right that we don't…

@RedTide: I disagree - signing a contract doesn't mean someone signs away her rights to feel upset, uncomfortable, or angry at what one of contracting parties does, even within the bounds of the contract. All a contract would provide in this case is a way to determine whether publishing the nude photos would be…

Every woman has the right to be upset if she feels her body was used in a way she didn't want it to be used. Even though she is a celebrity, no one can tell Kim Kardashian how she should feel about her body being used in a way she claims she didn't consent for it to be used in. "Art" - even by great, influential…

@Donovanesque: Dontcha know that that only thing worth writing seriously about is the bleak existential meaningless of the life of the modern human male? Toss the resulting anomie with some absurdist imagery and sex and you have a prize winner!

@Hamsterpants: Hmmm, I thought she might be wearing these under it, actually. I think it's a lie that they are made in the USA. Clearly they're an illegal Cuban import.

Talking about and emphasizing Michelle Obama's clothing choices "domesticates" her - a very powerful, very intelligent, very successful, and very savvy Black woman who goes to bed at night with the President of the United States. Focusing on her fashion dilutes of all of those scary traits she possesses, whether the…