@ekaterinaballerina: Hey, I didn't say you had to feel bad for her! :)

Wine: the HEIGHT of whimsy!

@Dodai: Yeah, our viewing party (4 roommates, one mom, one friend) engaged in a fair bit of analysis of Kenley's personality as well. There's something about her that I love to hate... and have finally started to pity.

@DCDeva: I realize this is sort of irrelevant, but how did she not know someone was fondling her ass? I am so aware of everyone that touches me on the subway, and any repetitive grazing of any sort sets alarms off for me.

@EnglishC6H6 is British Benzene: That is appalling! Someone thought it was OK to molest the locals!? Geez. These men give men (and Americans) a bad name.

@gherkinfiend: I read about something like this:

@gherkinfiend: I agree — I guess I wasn't very clear in my first comment, meh.

This episode actually managed to make me feel bad for Kenley. I know it was blatant manipulation of my feelings via editing, but for the first time, the lip-smacking Kenley-bashing I love so much seemed like bullying. It took some of the joy out of it, for me at least.

@KittenFluff:

@TheUptightMidwesterner: I think it's the bent-at-the knees stance + socks on teeny ankles that does it.

This is going to sound terrible, but I think she's giving rapists too much credit. I don't think the men who perpetrate this kind of evil on others will stop to think about their mothers or sisters or daughters before they attack a woman. I don't even know if they'll take the time to read a few paragraphs.

@MegSpencer: Low-carb diets kicked the food pyramid's butt. Like leggings and leotards, though, I think it'll make a comeback.

I'm strangely moved by the notion that a big, tough, muscle-bound Man of Steel just wants a snuggle.

@JessicaLovejoy: Vadge of Honor: I think a better comparison would be un-botoxed, facelift-less plastic surgeons. I don't know any plastic surgeons myself, but it seems (from TV, granted, cause that's where I get my info on these things) that all the "successful" ones have had work done. I think it sucks that shallow…

@BhavBhavBhav: I have a very dear friend who used to do all sorts of obnoxious things to get attention (and drinks. This was college, after all) at bars. Stuff that simulated giving a BJ to a beer bottle, for example.

@hollygirl: Hm. Having just read the whole exchange here, my only thought is that if we're going to talk about this stuff in an open forum, (because I think everyone agrees that it's important to have the conversation rather than sweep topics like rape and all that happens afterward under the table...) people should…

That sucks hard. Then again, fashion (high fashion, at least) is a world where aesthetics rule, and looking "good" is currency...and where being skinny is still considered attractive, so I guess there you have it.

She makes me want to claw out my eardrums. Seriously — something about people not listening to each other and yelling over one another makes me really agitated. UGH. UGH!

this is nitpicky, but she says "I'm not going to solely blame all of man's activities on changes in climate"

@funnyface: Not as embarrassing as my undying love for Ryan Reynolds in the unmentionable "Van Wilder".