I’ve noticed that, too, and I hope that one day she pivots to mini-series or limited series shows. Because they’re GOLD at first, but then Olivia Pope gets kidnapped and stored in a box in a garage and nothing is ever the same.

Yeah, you’re right, which is what I liked about the rest of the portrayal...but I don’t know. Are sociopaths known for their barking laughs? Maybe I’m just not up on my pop culture sociopathy! Very very possible.

Are we yay or nay on the Zuck portrayal on weekend update? I felt too much of it relied on the premise that “geeks laugh weird,” which I did not find funny, but the overall impression of him made me laugh. Still, I feel like they could have insulted him harder and better and more cleverly.

It stinks because I ALSO like the actor who plays him, so when you’ve got two stellar actors portraying an un-watchable relationship, you REALLY fucked up in the writers’ room. I definitely give them props for trying to portray a veteran but oooooooooooof did they fail.

One of the reasons I stopped watching Grey’s is because Cristina’s storyline became so uninteresting once they made her the constant martyr-partner of Owen Hunt. I’m hoping they pulled out of that nosedive, but Sandra Oh really carried the show for me and when they didn’t give her good material to work with, I was…

Even if they wanted to invite the Obamas, it’d be a huge slap in the face to the Trumps, which is something we’d all enjoy, but probably not something they want to use their wedding to do. It’s obvious that the royal family and the Obamas got along well during formal engagements, but it’s not like they’re BFFs. I…

Ugh, just awful. Thanks for clarifying. I think his sharing his story is super important in combating toxic masculinity and internal shame re: rape. But we can’t give him a pass on his own sins, either.

I wonder how many people they end up banning per day. If the comments section is any indication, their readership is way down, and banning old time commenters willy-nilly (instead of, again, taking the time the click through their comment history) doesn’t help. I doubt they’ll ever pull out of this nose-dive, but I…

How is Tammy Duckworth’s baby not the headline?

I tried to type a thoughtful comment but I think it’s best just to state the obvious. Higher tuition exacerbates social inequality. Many people (but not all) cannot escape the cycle of poverty without a college degree in this economy. My heart breaks for these kids. It seems that America is no longer interested in…

Overall, women earned $12,600 less than men pre-baby and $25,100 less post-baby.

Can’t science make a Womb yet? Can’t I just put some eggs and some sperm in a Womb next to my plants and water it for nine months and stuff? Keep it plugged in? Get a back up generator for it in case the power goes out? Feed it smoothies and play it lullabies when I’m not home to talk to it? Wheel it into the other…

Not all therapists are made equal, and shopping around for one is tough, but definitely worth it to find one who clicks! It worries me that there is a therapist out there who will downplay any sexual trauma.

Personally, I feel like it’s never, ever okay to date/flirt with your students, and a lot of colleges have policies against it, but can you clarify if they’re undergraduate or graduate students? There’s a wide gulf between the two, with more gray area (policy-wise) if they’re grad students. (Again, I think it’s always…

I would actually go insane. I like little kids in an abstract way, but I’m not even good babysitting my niece and nephew—and by not good, I mean, no one would ever dream of asking me to do it. I’m just around when my mom does it. I’d prefer to reproduce, but only because that means my children would one day be 9 y/o+

“Do you want to pull Apu, a beloved character out of the Kwik-E-Mart...just for the sake of updating that character to be less anachronistic?”

Thank you for this response! I think that’s the right takeaway. My mom was not a SAHM, but we were still the most important things in her life—she worked for us, not for herself—and now that we’re grown, she feels a little bit like she didn’t do anything with her life. She phrased that much more nicely, obviously,…

Just as good parents worry they’re not doing enough for their kids, good kids usually worry they’re not taking care of their aging parents properly. I know I do! There are always going to be hindsight regrets, but it’s an impossibly difficult situation, and a sad one! I’m sure you’re doing great as their child,…

We were latch key kids, too! (Never heard that term, lol) and the memories of being at home and waging WARFARE against my siblings are very vivid.

That makes so much sense! Also, when I worked in a therapy-adjacent job, I noticed that our therapists talked just as much, if not more, about sibling dynamics/place in the family as they did about innate personality traits or relationships to parents.