Okay. I am currently IN the Netherlands, getting more and more pissed off about this inaccurate article, and even though I've already commented I want to make one final thing clear:

@BlondeGoddess: HEAR HEAR! Sisters in the struggle against this horrible article — I wish I could let the readers know that, for example, in order for me to get affordable housing, I have to be on a waiting list for a minimum of about 3 years — for renting. The Netherlands is NOT all the flowery and wonderful as its…

@tomsomething: I can tell you: the Dutch way of living is expensive and that only Dutch women Olien must have known were women supported by their rich husbands. Health care here is also not as cheap as everyone thinks it is, along with other things. Why does the Netherlands always get this lazy, liberal, easy-going…

@birdieboots: I'm sorry I just want to defend my fellow Dutch ladies to say this article is not at all accurate! Please don't think we're lazy, we work very hard! And I survived 12 years in the USA without having a hard time because the work ethic is NOT that different!

@tomsomething: The fact that you're asking that question hints at the fact that this article is misinformed, which, as a Dutch lady, I can say it is.

@BlondeGoddess: I am too, and this really made me mad! I'm a single Dutch lady working my ass off to pay my rent, get my career rolling and finish my MA. I don't personally know any woman working "part-time"@

Err...as a Dutch woman living currently in the Netherlands, I can say that Olien must not be looking at the female population as a whole. All of the women in my family (including myself) work (well in my case — AND study) full time. Yes, we get long vacations, but we're certainly not lazy. I worry about my career,…

Oh come on! Mental health? He just did what everyone else wants to do — try to uncover who the "real" Palin is. And e-mail was his means. Bravo to him! The judge is probably jealous he thought of it first.

What I hated most about my college karaoke experience was hearing all the bros sing Sublime and DMB over...and over...and over. Whenever my friends and I put our names on the list, we'd have to wait through all of their performances. It was the worst when they tried to be all showy and impress the audience with they…

Clearly KST is thinking "er....not what I had in mind." And Elbaz is all like "lovin' it."

Michele is the only one who seems to actually be working the camera. I'm glad she's so confident but I still have mixed feelings about this whole shoot. They're all adults, but I agree with those who said that they need to be careful about their image, since a lot of younger kids watch the show and look up to the…

@mizzmarvel: I commented again as well — I didn't realize it had gone to that extent (overseas we aren't at that season yet, apparently).

@NellMood: Alright, guess I actually missed that episode...my bad. And no, I do not support child abuse, especially since I was physically abused by my stepmother to a similar extent to (I guess) Farrah was. I honestly never realized that the charges against her were that bad. Again — missed that piece of the puzzle,…

@Sandra Lee's Kwanzaa Cake: Agreed. Okay, she hit her daughter, but while I was watching some of those episodes I had the urge to hit my TV screen, seeing how immature Farrah was and how she didn't seem to care about Sophia at all. I can sympathize.

Jon Hamm = epitome of manliness. I bet he didn't even flinch during that explosion.

@wooden_shoes: Thank you for that comment — I can only respond to what I know, but you really reminded me of some things that I normally wouldn't want to because it's scary. Let's just hope that our law enforcement and judicial systems can keep putting the people that act on their urges away (preferably for life).…

@aleekza: Oh gosh, you shouldn't have shown me that...*shudder*. And valid point about my usage of 'raise awareness,' but to me it still kind of means the same thing — if he's trying to make it 'acceptable', there's no way he can 'downplay' pedophilia, is there? At least that's what I would think...

Makes me think of a L&O:SVU episode where a group was trying to make pedophilia legal (gotta love L&O). Though it was fiction, it was scary to see how some of these pedophiles were portrayed — that they actually believed pedophilia was something that can't be changed like any sexual orientation, and that these…

@newmakcity: In that case I'll take the boxing shoes... ;)

@dancerevolution: ironically, they were invented over time by female dancers like Marie Taglioni and Anna Pavlova. I love pointe but will never understand why women do that to themselves...