YES. This is one of the ways we prevent abusive relationships.

See, now that's romantic and lovely. Because it's respectful, thoughtful, and still memorable.

But then why the comment about the mother and baby being healthy and resting happily? That's not usually something noteworthy for an event that happened 9 months ago.

THANK YOU. I thought maybe my confusion was due to lack of caffeine, but no. That sentence makes no sense.

I think maybe we just observed it more during Lent? I dunno, I can't quite recall. I just remember the hating of the fish.

I thought stank face was just her normal face?

How you do Lent is: you capitalize it.

I really wish I could unsee this gif.

I'm 40 and I remember when it was actually kind of interesting and had an impact (remember Pedro Zamora?). It basically started sucking goat balls after season 3.

As someone who worked a lot of crap retail and food service jobs and never got the chance for sweet vengeance. . . I SALUTE YOU!

Terry Crews for EVERYTHING!

The smiley faces are what really brings it home.

Couldn't help but notice a bit of the opposite effect on the recent Parks and Rec episode of Donna's wedding. There's a close-up with her in the church, which, yes, has shadows, but the lighting on her was terrible and made it harder to see her face. Like, really? You couldn't take the wee bit of time and effort to…

In answer to your last two questions, probably because I'm a clueless idiot with internalized sexism and homophobia who is just an unwitting tool of the patriarchy.

I'm sorry; that's really shitty and you shouldn't have to feel that way. No one should. And I'm very sorry if I did that to you as well. I don't have very good tools right now to figure out ways to talk about it that aren't silencing, dismissive, or ignoring and I think about that a lot. If you have any examples of…

Um, wow. I was not saying that at all. All I was trying to do was say that all domestic or intimate partner violence is a problem, and it does disproportionately affect women, straight or queer. I tossed out a few examples that were not meant to be exhaustive or 100% representative. Nowhere did I say that it's only a…

I'm not. Pretty much everyone I know who works in or adjacent to the field or who is a feminist knows that domestic violence affects men, too, and many DV programs reflect that in their word. But the fact remains that it disproportionately affects women. And it's okay to focus on that, much like how it's okay to…

You always know just what to say.

Oh damn. I always looked forward to your posts; your combo of smartass and smarts but also your warmth are perfect! Cosmo doesn't even know how lucky they are!