While they did try to make him seem at least a little literate early on, I just never bought it. He always just screamed BASIC and it seemed much more natural when he stops imploring her to read "Hunter Thompson" (who has ever called him that, leaving out the S.?) He's a jock and a nice guy but he was never going to…

I mean, he was not nice to Rory in that way teenage boys are often horrible to their girlfriends because they fucking idiots…he was a selfish prick with no self awareness, which isn't great but he also has that sideways mouth and lush hair and I just came. And he seems to get it together later in the show, I like to…

Such a hot punk though. I think it's funny that AV Club seems to be so Team Jess but I like it since I am, too. I mean, if by "team" we're saying who's hottest. He and Rory had fire chemistry (because they were dating in real life, I think) and he liked music and books on top of being damaged and unpredictable in that…

I will want to read the book. I know she's the worst but I got very involved with her whole thing when she wrote for xoJane and was delving into her Instagram, too. So I was sort of excited to see her so clearly referenced in this show! I just find her fascinating despite knowing she is going out of her way to seem…

I get that. I wasn't really meaning that they don't understand the "no" but rather they don't understand they don't have an innate right to women's bodies, which is pervasive, to the point that I think many young men don't realize they believe it. There is still a lot of pop culture that reinforces that women "play…

Objects are made by men and used for many purposes but we never love objects!

Yes! Or maybe even YASSSS. I said something similar upthread, we are not beholden to the commercial aspects of the holiday if we don't want to be. And I get offended when people are like "if you need Valentine's Day to show your love than your relationship must be shit!" because, come on, while I do my best to be a…

But can't we, as adults, dismantle those expectations and make it mean whatever we want? I think, overall, it's nice to have a day set aside for taking stock of the love we have for other people. My husband and I seldom do anything big for Valentine's Day, mostly out of laziness and he knows I'm not that attached to…

Initiation of foreplay would even be suspect, since she had already said no, but at least that would make sense like trying to get her in the mood but just full on penetration while asleep sounds like a straight-up creeper.

I think you're right. It serves no one to act like all men have an innate concept of consent when it's clearly not true and not that all men who do shit like this are hopeless rapists. Now, this guy sounds like he's old enough to know better but still, a man can continues to do shit like this, thinking it's fine, if…

Right? I see it all the time without seeking it out. Now, some of it have sought out and followed porn people and cam girls and such but some of it is just reblogged from people I follow for their gifs or fashion posts. It's actually the thing I like most about Tumblr because every other social media platform censors…

I believe those are called "hen parties"…my husband was into those for a while. Then when I was going to have a bachelorette party (also called a hen party in England and mine was "cock" themed as joke) he got worried because he thought that regular hen parties went down like that porn version!

Oh I thought it was by far the best skit of the night, my husband and I loved it so.

I had never heard this band but on Tumblr I had seen that people consider the lead singer a kind of heart throb but seeing him mug made me angry. He is anti-bae.

Eh, you're kind of purposely taking the suggestion too literally. Sure, anyone can write something thoughtful about anything but on a show that attempts to show the lives of kids with immigrant parents in an isolated community, yeah, I do think that a reviewer who is first generation Iranian or with parents from…

You are reasonable but not everyone is. Less self aware parents can feel that other people's choices to not have kids is making some kind of judgement against their choice to have kids. And, at least in the case of my SIL who has kids, she's the kind who thinks if something works for them, it should work for everyone…

For sure. My family (my mom especially) just didn't care that much for pets, especially the cleaning and damage to the house that they usually involve. So I never got that super intense pet bond that people have (even though we did attempt to have pets, pigs namely, and that didn't go great), unlike my husband's…

I agree to a degree. I love true crime- Investigation Discovery, 20/20, Primetime and this "prestige" kind like Serial Season 1 and The Staircase, etc. It's all trashy in a way because we're being entertained by grisly crimes but it's just a reality that people are titillated by these things, I've come to terms with…

I think Dan explained it pretty well- people either like the sensation or like the transgression or both. I find it pretty gross to read about, personally, but I like stuff that would be gross to some people. Pain/discomfort and pleasure comingle for some people and that's just how it goes.

Life in general (when I'm feeling kind of glum) is Name That Thing by Chumped. I used to be generally quite depressed and negative which I'm not anymore but the line (and the way she sings it) "Cuz I get down and it’s so easy to feel nothing" has made me cry. I don't know any songs that are about how great life is…