The committee decides on who wins - there will typically be a favourite or a front-runner. The general public will also often have a favourite based on who they think is more deserving. How does that make it like the Oscars?

Thank you so much for this. There are NO clinical trials done on how medications affect adolescent brains, because what parents are going to sign their kids up to be lab rats? Dunham isn't "hating on" medications, she's saying - rightly so - that it shouldn't be the first choice for managing children's conditions.

Yeah. I mean if they had a shade like Xerox paper with faint pale blue squiggles and light-pink dappling then that would match my skin tone.

If I may? I don't know this, but it's possible that Dunham may have meant that her issues were of the kind that were treatable with meditation rather than medication, that her mother didn't go leaping toward medication right off the bat, and for that she is grateful. Some people are lucky enough to be able to treat…

Troy wasn't gay, that was a romantic abnormality! About fish. :D Sincerely, Simpsons Geek

If you're unfamiliar with Munro's work, newyorker.com has unlocked some of their archives and made a few things public.

Preach it. That head line is painting with too broad a brush. Even if you don't have a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation, there are different kinds of cancer you can get. A double mastectomy for a triple negative aggressive cancer has a different benefit than a double mastectomy for a hormone positive cancer.

Just to clarify again, this only applies to those without the BRCA mutation.

Umm... you do realize that giving birth is in many ways an invasive medical procedure, right? And that it is of higher risk to the individual than a medical or surgical abortion?

I'm also a lawyer, an employment lawyer, and I look at employment contracts.

The window on that haircut is rapidly closing.

I think some people, myself included, are concerned about the effects on people who cannot be vaccinated. My little sister was one of those people (immunocompromised), and herd immunity was what protected her.

Parents who refuse to vaccinate their children are the worst of the worst. They're selfish assholes who don't give a fuck that actual children might die because their little snowflake is "too special" for regular vaccines. I honestly think that children who aren't vaccinated (by choice) legally shouldn't allowed out…

rape victims can do that

Oh Madge. The people who play it safe can be happy too. I'm so sick of the dichotomies.

I'm not a huge James Franco fan but one thing I noticed when watching the credits for his movie Child of God (the most fucked up movie I've ever seen-waaay more fucked up than Dogtooth and that's saying something) is that his crew had a number of women in nontraditional roles like grips and camera operations. I just…

Moxie!

"Not to mention the fact that dude lions are total Hufflepuffs who don't even DO SHIT EXCEPT BRUSH THEIR HAIR AND TAKE A NAP. Whatever."

In Kazakh, it's nice and gender-neutral: "koti bar," or "s/he has butt!" There's even a surname—Kotybarov, which means "s/he has butt." Bravery is not confined to one gender; anyone can have butt. It's great.