I have to wonder if some of her apparent bitchiness toward Char wasn't really misdirected anger at the producers. Char essentially got two producer-orchestrated saves — the Tim Gunn save and then the additional time in a later week to add a zipper to her outfit for their "woman on the street" challenge — and was about…

Are we talking about a second medical opinion, or are we talking "I know you said I need a C-section, but my spiritual guide who is also my midwife tells me I just need sublingual doses of this homeopathic remedy to sail through a natural water birth" opinion?

It's truly terrifying. Good for the rehab center staff for treating his comments and actions seriously and warning Hyland about the danger, though; all too often, such threats aren't taken seriously until after the abuser acts.

I am asserting that he isn't because to me, someone who gets angry with a friend who has other friends is not behaving like decent person. It's normal to feel disappointed that someone isn't as into you as you are to him or her; I get that. We all do. The anger, though — that just seems like a strange response. I…

I really appreciate your acknowledging that a lot of the reason many women don't give a firm "no thanks" is that some men react very badly to that. It isn't just that it's easier to say "hm, not right now, I'm busy" and risk some passive aggression than it is to say "I'm not interested" and get actual aggression.

I'm going to reply to this without rancor and without tiptoeing around the topic because I get that you value directness: Women are also socialized to give a "soft no" because a hard no sometimes gets a hard slap, either emotionally or physically. There's a story on Deadspin right now about a guy who broke his wife's…

I think the difference is income bracket. These guys' incomes are huge in many cases — certainly in the case of big stars and veteran players like Ray Rice — so you're looking at a really small segment of the population. Compared against their age cohort, NFL players have fewer incidents of domestic violence; compared…

Rates of domestic abuse in the NFL are actually lower than that in the general population. I say that not to exonerate the monsters who beat their SOs and children but to point out that this problem is way, way larger than just an NFL issue. If Goodell had had any sense or compassion at all, he would have gotten out…

I'm so glad you mentioned this fact. Overall, the domestic crime rate in the NFL is lower than the national average, which is something that sometimes gets lost in these discussions. The problem is that the NFL has turned a blind eye to or minimized the cases that *do* exist until Ray Rice was caught abusing his…

I don't think I've ever heard my husband or our cook friends complain about a remake. Okay, that's not quite true — my friend did get awfully shirty about the guy who asked her to re-fire a perfectly good pink-in-the-middle-with-no-red-anywhere filet mignon until it was brown in the middle and black on the outside…

In most restaurants, dishes are prepped in advance. If the chef had to pound, bread and fry the chicken-fried steak for each order, you would wait an eternity to get served, so the prep cook portions and pounds the meat earlier that day for dinner service that night. It wouldn't have been a huge ordeal to prepare…

Pfft, as if the guys who want to victim-blame and shame are likely to have wives and girlfriends at all, let alone wives and girlfriends who would take nudie pics to please them.

After seeing the runway version, I'm even angrier at this dress. Look closely and see how the ombre effect on the runway is subtler because it uses the darker fabric as a background for the lighter tulle about halfway down. In the inverted version, it just goes from cotton candy to watermelon Now-'n'-Later with almost…

I thought it was just me! I found her makeup really aging, and she looks more like her mom in a long wig here than like herself.

"There is absolutely no excuse to put your hands on a woman" and "What about addressing women on how they can help prevent the obvious wrong," when taken together, make about as much sense as "I know there aren't any monsters under my bed, but I like to keep my feet covered so they can't reach up and get me."

I don't know about anomalocarids, but I know scientists thought some very weird things about conodonts for a while. With only their little tooth-like thingies to go by, people hypothesized some weird, scaly ball of horror with overlapping scales. Now, they're believed to have been more eel-like with terrifying fangs.

I had a cat who looked almost exactly like Choupette, and she was just the best — as sweet as the little toasty marshmallow she looked like. I can't disapprove of Lagerfeld for being as besotted with his Choupette as I was with my kitty.

I saw the title without the image at first and thought, "Huh, that's strange; Bill Belichick doesn't give many impromptu interviews."

I was really hoping to see Keri Russell get a nod for "The Americans." She's consistently outstanding in it, and so is Matthew Rhys — but with as many men crowding the Lead Actor field, I knew he'd get overlooked. Sorry she did as well.

I was really hoping TD would wind up as a miniseries. It'd leave more room for the other stellar actors in that field and maybe, just maybe, finally net Jon Hamm the Emmy he's deserved for quite some time but couldn't quite grab because it was always in Bryan Cranston's hands (not that Cranston didn't deserve his…