Did every juicer and raw-foodist skip ninth grade biology class? Repeat after me: enzymes are not alive. Enzymes are proteins. Chains of amino acids. Your body will digest them like any other protein, whether they've been heated first or not.

Seriously, what do these people think enzymes actually are? Magical…

C'mon dude, the totalitarian feminist police state has better things to do than pay for your blind dates. Why, after paying for all those government-sponsored recreational abortions and building male detention camps in every city, we've hardly got hardly a dime left over!

Laura Roslin was also a great complex female character in that series.

I've been watching Prime Suspect recently (the Helen Mirren version) and I love the main character. She's a middle-aged woman who is flawed and complicated and sometimes a bit of a jerk, but always fascinating and three-dimensional.

Yes! I saw a comment elsewhere referring to Daisy as, if I remember, "pretty much the Jazz Age version of Paris Hilton" which also seemed apt.

Ursula is by far my favorite villain.

I'm all for questioning and analyzing the sources of commonly-cited statistics, but this guy sounds like he has a (creepy, rape-apologist) axe to grind. His arguments are blatantly dishonest (claiming that a kiss is defined as sex, for example), and don't pass any test of intellectual rigor. Not to mention his abuse…

I agree with you 100%. The only reason I haven't stopped reading the Gawker sites entirely is that lovely Chrome extension that actually lets me read comments, instead of constantly clicking to see little bits of the "conversation", which has become scattered, repetitive, and troll-y.

At this point, shouldn't we just assume that pretty much everything made by large companies is produced under unethical conditions somewhere along the line? Our produce is harvested by exploited migrant workers. Our electronics are assembled in sweatshops, using minerals that fuel conflict in the Congo, and will…

I don't hate her, either. I didn't really like the version of Pride and Prejudice she was in, but I thought she was pretty good in Atonement.

I think the book definitely highlighted the unfairness women faced at the time, but I got the feeling Tolstoy still approved of the system. Levin was supposed to be his stand-in, right? And Kitty was supposed to represent the ideal woman? Tolstoy may have had some sympathy for Anna, but he still seemed to…

I LOVE Hark A Vagrant. That strip is perfection.

I just looked up Aaron Johnson because I didn't know who he was, and he was born in 1990. 1990! He's a baby!

I didn't necessarily like her, but I did think she was a really interesting character who I had a fair amount of sympathy for.

I second smithk654, Wide Sargasso Sea is a wonderful companion to Jane Eyre (though it's quite sad and not remotely romantic).

Eva Green would make such a fantastic Anna.

I enjoyed Anna Karenina, and I know it's a product of its times, but good gravy did Tolstoy's view of women annoy me. Passionate, interesting Anna was (spoiler!) punished with misery and death, while dumb, insipid Kitty (presented as the feminine ideal) got to live happily ever after? Ugh.

Also relevant. Boys are expected to play sports or else they're sissies, and girls are supposed to be skinny, but not strong.

Calvin's experiences trying to play baseball at school pretty much explain why I hated organized sports as a kid.

Totally. I was a fairly active kid (biking, swimming, horseback riding), but awful at team sports. The funny thing was, when I wasn't around other kids and the pressure was off (like when I was just playing catch with my family), I was had ok skills, but they all disappeared once I got to PE class or recess.