Have you ever noticed, though, that with the exception of Bones, it seems as though the tech-related female characters HAVE to be quirky or curvier than the other women on the show or just different in some way. I'm in no way advocating for more perfectly coiffed model-looking women to play these roles (there are…

I wanted to become a forensic pathologist for years because of Dana Scully from the X Files. In the end I still went on to get an English degree and become a writer though (albeit a fairly well paid one, living in NYC). I can't tell you how many times I've heard the old "I bet you wanted to be like Carrie!" GAG.

It's annoying for some their US readers who read BBC news because US news is just god-awful, so I feel your pain.

The man that I consider my grandpa (my gran's boyfriend of 35 years, yes you read that right, 35 years no marriage because that is not their bag) only started learning stuff when his ex left him and his daughters started refusing. He could only live with my gran for two years before she got fed up (they live in…

Who shot J.R. perhaps?

Oh yes, because the fall of the Berlin Wall only affected Gen Xers?

I would say that 9-11 was a huge cultural moment for us, but who am I to argue? I just lost a brother in the WTC.

Ya know, being tech savvy isn't a privilege anymore, it's a necessary life skill. You can't get hired if you don't have at least a working knowledge of computers and other technology. I bought my first cell phone in high school with the money from my first job. I also paid for my own computer classes in high school…

YUP. And who does he (she?) think raised these so-called selfish, lazy millenials. My dad was technically Gen X, but the vast majority of my friends and colleagues were raised by Baby Boomers. And (shocking!) all of the useless millenials that I know were definitely raised by Boomers. That being said, most millenials…

My dad is technically a Gen Xer (at least in as much as wikipedia describes it) and I am a millenial, and I learned all of my life skills from him. My mom walked out when I was two, so my journeyman carpenter father had to be both mom and dad for me and did a damn good job.

Yes, because there were NO latchkey millenials. Oh wait, I was one so I guess there were. And in case you didn't notice, we are just getting out of the recession that began in 2008. Thankfully, as an older millenial, I graduated a couple of years before the recession hit, and managed to ride it out with only one…

I see what you're saying, but when push comes to shove you do have to have some life skills. I'm not agreeing with Douchey McBag aka the OP of this thread, but my father taught me life lessons and they came in handy last year when hurricane Sandy destroyed a huge part of my neighborhood and we went without electricity…

My dad actually does know how to do those things, and he does them well. But guess what his buddies call him if they stop by and he's running the washing machine or making diner? A fag and a ladyman. So people like the OP of this thread can argue til they're blue in the face that my generation was coddled, but I take…

Ohh, sorry. There was quite a few comments where people were, so I guess I felt a knee-jerk reaction to clarify. Sorry!

Are you saying women should just suck it up and change their names? Why? Because Oh-so-knowledgeable 123Awesome says so? It's funny, I can change my own transmission and I make more money than my husband, is it okay with you that I kept my own damn last name now? You can't help what you're given at birth (or you can,…

My dad was happy I kept my last name too, but only because he thinks our last name is awesome and that my husband's hard to spell and pronounce name would have hurt my career (I'm a writer). He's a really evolved guy, so while there might have been a little gloating over my choice, I think it was at a minimum.

I know for a fact that this isn't the actual procedure, you were just talking to an idiot who can't imagine any other way to prove marriage but "same last name." I just raged a little (okay, a lot) for you. Sorry you had to deal with that. I would have flipped too. My ex worked for UPS and this was NOT the procedure…

Lindy wasn't criticizing anyone though. She even states that she, personally, would like to take her BF's last name if he would agree, and thinks it would be romantic. She just hates that women are pressured to give up their names, not that women who want to change it do.

My husband had a similar reaction a few years ago when we decided to actually get married. We had been together for quite a while before that, and had never considered name changes before that. I had always been adamant about liking the name I was given though, and just assumed he would understand that I intended to…

If I thought he was serious and not making a joke of all the other open letters written to her in the last couple of weeks, I would think so too.