he doesn't really have a duty to us as a public. He's defending himself, and there's no particular reason why he'd want to open up a bigger can of worms than he's already dealing with. If you want to have that conversation, then you start it, but it seems silly to go around faulting people for not having conversations…

I guess it'd have to be mer. But really she's gone downhill since she got all mommified, so I'm hoping she can step up her game now that she's decided to put herself first.

That's a good point, it's super convenient and maximizes profit when they're kids and you don't know how far this thing is going to go. But yeah, time to graduate.

I got so much satisfaction out of Christina and Burke yelling at each other it's scary. And Christina telling Mer, "but he's not the sun. You are." was so amazing. I don't know how they can possibly go on without her. I like Amelia, but not nearly as much as Christina...

omg, did you watch This is 40? My husband and I needed a lot of liquor to finish that one, despite the fact that Paul Rudd is the absolute best. That couple was uniformly terrible.

Also it was equal opportunity—Seth Rogan's character wasn't exactly shown in a great light either.

I still do, but there've definitely been up and down seasons. Season 4 was The Worst™. And the Merger season. And the Mark's-surprise-grown-pregnant-daughter season. But I'm still glad I hung in for Christina's send-off.

Also, when Burke left. I get why they had to do that, but damn he was my favorite character.

Does "momager" just seem like a categorically bad choice to anyone else? Does anyone really big in hollywood do that? I would just think that it'd be more valuable to have someone a little more impartial in that role.

But what is it she's outspoken about? If she'd kept it to, "yeah, that's a bit sexist" I think we'd all have her back. But when you start throwing the coworkers that made you a star under the bus and then making terrible career choices, are we really still supposed to think you're awesome? It was like she threw a…

but those don't exactly exist in a vacuum...

It would have been sexist to assume they could not decide hobby lobby in advance, but it's just common sense to notice the gender divide in the hobby lobby decision, and subsequent stay in the Wheaton college case. It's not sexist to observe that someone else has been sexist and is therefor likely to continue being…

He probably backed into that position—"if she'd just known less about it, if sex hadn't been everywhere around her, she never would have even thought of it and this couldn't possibly have happened!" Dude's in denial.

Also, I'd love to see these mythical $5k "reliable" cars. I struggled to find a truly reliable one under 12k. No matter how well it was made in the first place, once you enough miles on it, things are going to need a certain level of maintenance on the regular.

to me it makes it a look they're putting on, instead of something genuine and unique to them. It says that THIS is definitively what abuse looks like, when in fact the possibilities are endless, and not always so visible as this.

I think you're taking it a bit too literally for something based off of cartoon characters. I think it's just a riff off the idea that many women hold "he treats me like a princess" as the ultimate in romance in order to draw attention to the cause.

I'd say she could even work on the voice of the art substantially—if one of my interns showed me this my critique would be to give it more variety. Each one of them has the exact same black eye, bloody nose, blood under the lip, and bruised shoulder. If you're going to the trouble to do a series, use the extra pieces…

honestly it feels a bit like he's made a snap judgement about my persistence or patience. But the good news is that he referred me to a nutritionist he works with, so hopefully she'll approach the discussion with a bit more nuance and less emotional judgement

It'dlast until I lost 30 lbs. BUT I've got a surprise for him, I've lost 9 since I saw him two weeks ago, so I'm hoping that will pacify him. I'm a new patient, so he doesn't know my history with borderline disordered eating, but the shock of that recommendation is making me question whether I should drop him already.…

When I need to step it up, I bike to work (on top of my usual morning workout). I almost always lose a pound on a double-workout day.