Interesting. It's been years since I saw it, before I really had any sort of handle of the sort of subversive sexism that pops up in media. I should watch it again to see this for myself. Hmmm. Now to find the time? But thanks for that analysis—his treatment of female characters is fascinating. They were pretty blah…

When I watched the pilot, I didn't have any huge problems with the way the female characters were portrayed, really. There was some suspect stuff that was said, but I let it slide (I like Sorkin speechifying, to be honest, although would it have killed him to have the main character reference some great women?). So…

BWAHAHAHAHA. That is perfect. Thank you. I needed that after a horribly hot, morale-killingly slow bike ride home.

That was really, really weird for Rebecca Bross, actually. Last year she dislocated her knee and had a bunch of surgery, etc., and turned from an Olympic all-around threat to just a bars-beam specialist. And she normally has pretty good bars. So that was crazy unusual and heart-wrenching. She apparently rocked her…

I do prefer Lochte over Phelps. Just couldn't find the right .gif (read: too lazy to find one when I already had the link to this one).

Just don't tell Mother. She's still cross about the time she caught you rimming the good china.

It's not that I have a snoring problem, but rather a drooling problem. I'm a big ol' mouth breather, apparently. TMI? Oh well. But if I had a snoring problem, I would buy this. Because polar bears are cuter than nose strips and snoring so loudly you wake yourself up. My grandfather used to do this. It was hilarious.

I lurked for a long time before venturing into the comments. I loved all the discussions! But I swear, I do not think Kinja has at all helped with it. More trolls, fewer comments, and a lot of missed discussions because of the way stuff gets buried. But I do love the fantastic commenters here, and I am almost too lazy…

I was about one day away from splitting until I started using that Chrome plugin so many have mentioned. It was getting too difficult to follow threads, see all the comments (some good ones seemed to be getting buried by the algorithm even though they were good), the trolling was horrible, and I was a little…

I think they were hoping to get a back 10—that those 10 episodes would get good enough ratings, and if they coupled that with OLYMPICS FEVER!, ABC Family would order another 10 to get them to the Olympics.

I saw a Prius with vanity plates once. "50MPG" they said. I gave that car the side-eye as it exited the freeway.

Her father also didn't really want her to come back, if I recall correctly. She started showing up to the gym and practicing all the time to convince him she meant it. Of interest: he is also the coach of another Olympic hopeful, Rebecca Bross. What's interesting is that both girls are attempting to make the team as a…

If it makes you feel any better at all, Khorkina is something of a bad sport, and has claimed that the results of the 2004 Olympics were fixed and she should have won over Patterson. I'm still not sure what I think about that.

It's not just that males wait until they are more mentally/emotionally mature to perform at that elite level. Male gymnasts also reach their physical peaks (as far as gymnastics go) later in life. Thanks to the way strength-to-weight ratios work (as they are important in this sport), girls are better than women in…

Stand up straight and pretend you are going for it in worship, and extend your arms in the air to God.

It's like someone figured out what would make me give them all my money, and they exploited it. Seriously. flyingbuttresses-tailored-lady-porn.

I would like to add my name to the list for #3, there. A good man butt is a good man butt. My lovely friend has a fantastic one (he's quite obliging in letting me ogle it a little, and maybe get a little handsy with it), and it's basically ruined me on male butts forever.

Yeah. I mean, I got it. All the posts were supposed to be funny, and "Hahahaha, let's air our grievances in a snarky way while comments are down, but don't worry, we don't mean any of it, really, just playing a silly little joke." And I guess some of it was a little funny. But not really.

I think I read over on Deadspin that the algorithm used also takes into account things like word usage and quality of post (something about who responds, the quality of their past posts, etc.) I don't know. It seemed kind of complicated and like the writer didn't even understand it all. But basically it's not just…

They were posting kind of troll-tastic articles, since comments were disabled. It's interesting to me, because when I first read the announcement yesterday, I was like, "Oh, ok. They're switching to the new system, so they have to turn off comments for one day." But i09 just switched this morning too, and their…