Just watching the game with my twin boys teaching them that ladies kick ass. They are 2 but I figure the lesson will sink in sooner if I start now.

My apologies. That should read the abandoned chandelier factory.

how is it already this embarrassingly bad for Japan

We’re planning a field trip to the broken chandelier factory.

I love that the show quietly addressed the PTSD resulting from it. Elevated startle response? Check. Crazy nightmares where you’re suddenly transported back? Check. Flashbacks? Check. Random specific items causing you to freak out? Check. (But other than the last one, they’re really not played for laughs outright.)

It’s uses comedy to make really incisive commentary about rape culture, actually. I loved it.

It is bizarre, and yet....it works? I’m not surprised NBC et al passed on it, but the cast and comedy are solid and it never shies away from the fact that life CAN be shitty. Bad things can happen to people, and they survive. Somehow they keep the right balance - hopefully they can maintain it in season 2.

Kimmy Schmidt restored my faith in black comedy. Toss those Family Guy rape jokes in the trash and bring back the real black comedies that make incisive observations about their subject matter!

Agreed. Part of what makes Smart so brave is her gentle but confident renunciation of the way she was brought up concerning the ideas of women’s meekness and dependency on men.

Pino noir, mid-size car. pino noir, candy bar, caviar....

I love this show so much. I’ve already binge-watched like 4 times, and every time I find something funny that I hadn’t noticed before. I love the random, weird humor, and the overall message “Life is tough but so are we.”

But it has to be different dicks, right? Because otherwise having sex with even your husband a bunch of times should have the same effect? The logic of this analogy confuses me...

Ah yes, because every dick that touches you removes one of your vagina petals!!!

Peeeeeeenoooooooooooooo nooooooooooiiiiiiiiirrrrr

UnnnBREAKABLE—they alive, Damnit! lol

Yeah, my 10th grade sex ed class did a similar thing with a rose that we passed around and each took a petal off of (gross). It was weird, because it wasn’t even an abstinence-only curriculum, but they were required to bring in an abstinence speaker. I wrote him a very strongly-worded letter about how he was being…

Thank you for the link. Ms. Smart is very right on, especially in this example, explaining how the concept of “sexual purity” factored into her decision not to run-

Smart, is. We should all have such incredible grace under extreme circumstances.

Elizabeth Smart is a woman of unthinkable courage and strength. She has chosen the most noble path possible. Her activism for children who have been raped and sexually abused has no doubt saved countless lives and helped to begin the process of mending damaged souls. She is doing the single most important thing to end…

She also has some smart things to say about abstinence-only education: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05…