I normally don't go for scatalogical humor, like, ever, but Jacqueline dropping stuff in the toilet after Duke knocked on the door killed me. That plot was one of the season's funniest bits, for me.

Kimmy is definitely working through some interesting stuff over these few episodes. In "Kimmy Steps on a Crack," she's dragged back to the past because Gretchen can't stop recreating it. The last time she saw Gretchen, she gave her the only help she could, which was just the "Women can do anything men can!" platitude.

Its history is actually pretty interesting, because it occupies this unique space as both a language and also an accessibility tool for a particular disability. (I'm not sure how else to phrase that, but it should be noted that some deaf people do not identify with the word "disabled.")

Here's the real problem: safe spaces, much like trigger warnings, are very real parts of managing mental health/illness. They always have been. If you want to take issue with those terms being misused, be my guest, but trying to debate the merits of their very existence is like debating the merits of wheelchair ramps.…

Now that we're rounding hour 20 of the roundtable discussion on whether or not teenagers are smarter than adults, I would like to formally acknowledge the "Flouncy Magoo" plot as one of the funniest effing things the show has done. Its rapid descent from hagging to reverse bearding to homoeroticism was a wild ride.

Were they doing that? It seemed to me they just didn't want to hang out with her, which yeah, they have the right to do. Telling her it's messed up when she's rude to the person they hired to set up their rowing machine isn't openly ridiculing her, either; it's sticking up for someone who doesn't deserve to be spoken…

I can't even get my head around that. There is no controversy about whether or not sex should be consensual, so the idea that this is mocking "consent" itself is just… ghoulish, really, especially since this season established that Kimmy understands consent well enough to identify the reverend as a rapist.

You can take it as a Millennial-specific thing, but I just saw it as the guy throwing a temper tantrum because he wanted to bang her, so her rejection wasn't "fair." Part of the point was Kimmy finally realizing she was too old to be at that party. Part of the point was that even the seemingly feminist guy was a…

I'm fairly certain she does mock her own viewpoints, but for some reason when she pokes fun at her own side of any given issue, the hot take of the day is "Tina Fey Eviscerates People Who Agree With Tina Fey." I mean, I don't idolize the woman – she has unfortunate blind spots and biases, like everyone – but there's…

Yeah, I'm confused by the indignation; I was probably the most SJW-y person in my circle of party-loving college friends, and this felt like normal levels of UKS hyperbolic satire.

Who exactly would benefit from a consent contract? Is it the woman, who feels ultra-respected because it's more formal than verbal consent?

Some of it is due to that. Some of it is due also due to limited physical space, combined with NIMBYs ("not in my back yard!"). In San Francisco, they have protests to fight the injustice of tearing down a block of single-story, one family dwellings from the !930s-40s to make room for large buildings that could house…

The debate about the accuracy or intended parody target of the SJW rowing girls stuff kind of misses the point: they were right. Xan is exactly who they think she is – "some rich brat who got in because of her money."

Season one flashbacks show that Kimmy never actually believed him, but yeah, the psychological manipulation got to her, and that aspect of the review is very tone-deaf.

Oh, it's a line from 30 Rock.

Yeah, it's actually a particular viewpoint unto itself, one rooted in wry pragmatism and self-awareness. That particular kind of comedy has a long, storied history, but in the last decade or so it's mainly just been wheelhouse of Tina Fey and Jon Stewart.

Women are allowed to get angrier than men about double standards.

I noticed that, too! In addition to nannying, the flashbacks (and episodes with Cyndee and Gretchen) suggest she was basically the de facto "mom friend" to the other bunker girls, too. We usually see that in terms of her caring for them, but I totally believe she's an old hand at shutting down pointless bickering and…

Yeah, that episode is a clunker, and a lot of that is due to Maya Rudolph. That was just not the right role for her, and that paired with a so-so script was not great.

Come to the San Francisco Bay Area, friend, and bask in the evidence. It's not even up for debate here. A generation ago, the city had a normal class system gradient; today, all but the upper middle class and wealthy have been driven out of the city completely. There are no affordable neighborhoods; there are no BAD…