Except, as an actor you don't always get the full script before you're cast. And then, after casting, there might be any number of rewrites. And if you quit midway through filming you are a way bigger asshole, and in a lot more trouble, than if you just admit to not loving everything about the project after you…

Oh, absolutely, there ere legitimate reasons the gay population was at higher risk at the time! We are not in disagreement about that. My issue with the rule is that it has long outlived its usefulness and now mostly just stops willing people from donating, thus decreasing the supply of available blood.

Okay, cool, so it sounds like we're on the same page about how the donation process works. I can't agree with your conclusions, though.

While the ban on gay male donors may have been originally instituted for practical reasons, it is based on outdated information. With the HUGE push to educate people about HIV…

The blood has to be tested anyway, as there are a great many reasons someone might not be aware they have a blood-borne infection and not all risk factors can be accounted for ahead of time. Besides which, people lie about their medical history. When blood is donated, they do not just go through the questionnaire and…

Fuck that person. Stay at home dad is a wonderful job, and fortunately the law doesn't require anyone to hold a paid position in order to have opinions or participate in the political process.

Yeah, except these are reader-submitted stories about the most outrageous experiences they've had working restaurant jobs. They are not meant to be representations of what happens on a daily basis, they are meant to be representations of the weirdest shifts readers have ever worked!

And if you think management never…

Of not giving money to corporations run by abusers and the people who support them? Ooookay.

Some drugstores are now selling surprisingly good dupes of beauty products you'd normally only find at Sephora, too! There's a new Walgreens near me that has a whole bunch of stuff that is incredibly similar to my favorites from Urban Decay, Tarte, and Too Faced and about half the price. If you notice any swanky new…

Yup. I'm ineligible too because of a fling I had with a heteroflexible dude in college. Never mind his and my commitment to practicing safer sex, never mind the multiple STI tests both of us have taken in the years since, never mind that donated blood is going to be tested ANYWAY, they don't want our blood.

Heterosexual black women are a high-risk group for contracting HIV in the US, but I like to think people would rightly raise hell if black women who'd had intercourse with men were banned from giving blood.

Besides which, donated blood is routinely tested, which is a much more accurate method of preventing…

If I remember correctly, women who've had sex with gay or bisexual men within a certain number of years can't donate either. I was considering donating in college, and as I read up, realized having a heteroflexible dude fwb disqualified me.

In the US stores do not allow trying on panties, and swimsuits are always SUPPOSED to be tried on with underwear underneath. However, employees don't follow you into the fitting room, so they really can't stop you from violating this policy if you're determined.

Agh, WHY would you try on a swimsuit without panties and assume no one else has ever done the same? That is just painfully naive. Try it on with a thong if you can't tell how it's really going to fit! Granted, thongs aren't exactly an iron chastity belt either, so it would probably still be germy . . . but better than…

Agreed, right now combining categories would mean VERY few awards for women. For the present we do need a category specifically for recognizing women if we want women to be recognized at all.

They definitely need to come up with a way to account for non-binary folks. As it stands, I imagine most non-binary actors have…

Agreed. That, and they are following this pattern of giving each character their own episode explaining their backstory as they become more relevant to the main plot — they cannot keep that up AND give all our favorites from season one a ton of screen time. OitnB already packs a ton into thirteen one-hour episodes,…

I can't even bring myself to care who wins, it's just so cool they're both up for the award. They are both incredible .

Er, going to a party and getting drunk does not make someone a lesser person, even if they are underage.

It's true we don't know much else about Jada or her life, but we DO know she is handling all this very bravely and seeing someone like her stand up for herself could make other victims feel less alone and more able…

Pretty sure their bras are just decorative frames.

I actually loved American Idiot and a bunch of the other rock opera type musicals (Tommy, Rent, Spring Awakening.) But you're absolutely right that Mayer's sound is wrong for broadway. It's just not "big" enough. There is room for, like, one guy-with-guitar ballad in a musical, maybe two. You can't do a whole show…

You are of course correct. I was not implying that adults taking advantage of teens was allowable, only pointing out that even if a drunk person is awake and somewhat responsive, that does not make it legal to have sex with them. It seems to be a disturbingly common misconception.