Ditto.

Yes, absolutely.

Because it *had* been fertilized, and it *had* implanted itself; it was no longer two disparate "ingredients," it was two ingredients that had melded to become something else, something that had begun the process that would lead to it one day living on its own.

Yes, thank you. I'm aware of that definition; it's the one I was using. It's really not much to do with how much the star is paid, and everything to do with how many tickets can be expected to be sold with that star's name on the poster.

*shrug* Okay, whatever. Just commenting on what the guy in the article said, really don't care one way or the other.

Okay, so...what was the point of your reply to me in the first place, then?

I was tested when pregnant with my first; I'd been vaccinated but no longer had immunity. So I was instructed to be *very* careful, and was given the vaccine before I left the hospital when she was born.

My daughter is also very high on "the spectrum," and I think "kind of" is a mild world for the offense I take at these people and their implication that she deserves to die for not being their idea of perfect.

Ugh, I don't blame you. I hate your friend (okay, I don't *hate* her but you know what I mean) and I don't even know her, and as the parent of a child also on the spectrum, I'd really like to know why she thinks my daughter would be better off dead from measles than to be the fantastic, special, beautiful, smart,…

Well, that's a novel reading of "not a bankable movie star." That's not at all what I (or, obviously, a lot of others, from the earlier comments) took from that phrase, and not at all what I've taken from it in the past when it's been used to describe others.

No offense, but...Tom Hanks wasn't bankable, but *John Leguizamo* was?

I'm sure they are there; I never said they weren't. What I said is that the male strippers I've seen—all of whom have been in clubs or at events specifically for women—haven't been, IMO, particularly sexy. Maybe their routines are geared more toward what gay men would find sexy (I'm not claiming to know what gay men…

I dunno, I can see Mr. J turning up for disco. He does like his snazzy suits, after all. (Not to mention that were he aimed at an adult audience, I can totally see him needing to hook up with his coke dealer.)

No worries, I figured I must be missing something. Honest confusion, not "WTF do you mean," you know? :-)

See, I think that's part of it, yeah, but I also think it's that male strippers just aren't really entertaining, in my experience. I've been to male strip shows a few times and it's always, like, two seconds of the guy in a costume, then he suddenly tears it off and is just another guy in a jungle-print banana…

There's nothing pathetic at all about wanting to love and be loved, and about wanting someone to commit to loving you and being with you. NOTHING.

Oh, come on, where's your sense of humor? A woman over the age of twenty or so who had a couple of drinks is clearly a ridiculous slut who deserves contempt and sexual assault. She's just some old drunk girl, who cares? :rolleyes

Sorry, what part of my comment is "why [you're] still single?"

Already thanked you on Twitter, but thanking you again.

No.