Agreed! My boyfriend has duel-citizenship, and I'm counting on that shit if I ever decide to have kids.

I am so, so sorry. I don't know what else to say. You deserve a giant hug. And a kitten.

I'm no legal scholar, but if the guy was known to be abusive to women and ONE PERSON EVER called to report screams, wouldn't that be enough to obtain a warrant and find the young women chained up in the house? I'm just trying to figure out how ten years without anyone figuring it out...

My hate for that is only matched by my love of the word "Puritaniacs."

"No! I just mean that I struggle with the same powerlessness and insecurity that all human beings do, so as a coping mechanism I take advantage of our culture's patriarchal power structure and exorcize my feelings of worthlessness by perpetuating shame-based proprietary attitudes over women's bodies. Basically I'm…

Not for me. I like my men like I like my sedans- mid-sized.

Curling irons are so paradoxical for me. I love the way my hair looks after using one, but I live in fear of them.

Well I don't think we're going to change each other's minds about this so we'll have to agree to disagree. I still think the show has more value than a lot of other things on television, but I'm glad I got your input on it. I've seen a couple of smart and progressive people say they don't like it (as well as many…

Hahaha I've got no problem with fancy drinks! More of a problem with a bunch of guys thinking it'll be super cool of them to go into this super cool bar and order a super cool Don Draper drink and then not know what kind of whisky they want in it because they don't actually know anything about the drink except the…

I think it is a story worth telling, because it's historically accurate and gives people a glimpse into that world, which was really ugly for a lot of people. I'd love to see the show you've described, but I'd rather it replace The Walking Dead (which I think is both racist and sexist). I absolutely think people of…

I think the show presents Don Draper as a flawed man. A lot of people who watch really don't like him. He also represents a lot of men who were around then (and are still around now). He's wealthy, he womanizes, and he's so unhappy that he's completely self-centered. A lot of the rich, powerful white men we're…

Oh sure! I order nicer drinks there then a lot of other places, but I think he as a bartender can tell the difference between a guy who has always drank Old Fashions and a guy who wants to be Don Draper (which should not be a life goal).

Yup!

I'm surprised you're bad at twitter, because you're really good at Jezebel.

My friend is a bartender at a old-timey Chicago jazz bar, and he HATES Mad Men because so many young guys come in wearing suits and order Old Fashions. So, so douchey.

And the show does such a good job of drawing connections to problems now without being heavy handed! When the Japanese clients come in and Roger couldn't contain his racism all I could think was about white America's race relations with Muslims and how we perpetuate that cycle. Brecht calls it historification, and…

Whenever someone says they don't like Mad Men because of the way the show handles women and minorities, I want to tell them that it's 1960's America they don't like.

Agreed. If mine get any bigger I'm going to have to install counter-weights onto my ass.

Obama's such a loving father that he'd rather have his daughters gettings abortions at 15 than taking an emergency contraceptive and ending all concern right then and there. What a guy!

Still flush 'em. I forget basically every time.