I love how the mistress is always expected to take responsibility for that poor, loving wife obviously waiting at home for her superman of a husband. Like women should be looking out for men's wives more than themselves. Look, that wife very well may be all victimized and deceived, but she may also be out having her…

My dad had lapband surgery some six or seven years ago now and while not quite the same as bypass, it's still pretty bad and has resulted in the same types of side effects. My grandfather died of a heart attack at age 62 and my dad was probably 100 pounds overweight, so I understand his desperation in deciding to get…

I'm always surprised when people love Sybil so much. To me, she's boring. Her character has no nuance or development - she's just this empty placeholder put there to demonstrate that the show acknowledged "progressive views" from the start. If she'd shown some real conviction in her beliefs (more than just her…

I like Sybil, but I find her boring. She's sooooooooooooo do-goody with very little nuance to her character. I like Edith precisely because she's got that horrible mean streak and was able to nearly ruin her sister in one fell swoop. Stupid and petty, yes, but interesting...

Hahaha thanks! I love Edith. Rather than the Jan Brady, I prefer to think of her as the Bridget Jones of Downton. I love Bridget and I love Edith. :)

Yay!

True, true. My baaaaaad.

Please take your place on my "Ideal Island".

OMG I forgot about Sybil being a nurse!!! Totally true that she ditched it to go hang out with Branson.

It surprises me a little that even here on Jez there isn't more support for Edith. Yes, her decision to out her sister's deflowering by the son of the Turkish ambassador was petty and desperate but come ON! Maybe I'm speaking out of turn since Season 3 has just started to air here in the states, but having seen the…

TOTALLY. I remember her talking about how she never cleaned the site of the tube so it was constantly getting infected and, um, HELLO you have a permanent hole in the side of you!!! This is so disgusting it's going to make me purge my lunch... involuntarily.

I've been using the Softcup (formerly called "Instead") for over 10 years now. I know it's less pc to use than the Divacup or whatever since it's disposable, but I friggin' love it. When you insert, it should hit the back of your vagina (in a gentle way) and "pop" open into the somewhat flat and wider end of the…

Agree. And what's with the clips of the celebrities themselves getting shot?? I mean, how does that exemplify their glamorization of gun violence?

Not that I think that the other ridiculous comments these morons are making are somehow "better" than this, but the most disturbing part of the video for me is how hilarious they think it is that the offenders urinated on the victim. Let's be real: these boys are entitled idiots who are told constantly that they are…

I call troll... or, worse, if you aren't a troll you're just a hugely uninformed pathetic excuse of humanity. Think before you type next time.

Not to be totally down on life on this already-terrible Thursday evening but this isn't all that different than what happens to rape victims in THIS COUNTRY. Do we feel a particular outrage at Indian authorities because they're all foreign and we can get all mad at them while denying that we live in a country where…

As a Weight Watchers member, I'm really interested to see what's going to happen to Jessica Simpson's endorsement deal. I mean, you're SUPPOSED to gain weight as a pregnant woman. How will she honor her contract? Will she suspend the endorsement during pregnancy and return afterwards? Will WW release her entirely?…

I think one of the funniest things about anti-choice demonstrations (i.e. speaking with people in a public place and trying to change or, at the very least, indict pro-choice views) is that the individual speaking on behalf of pro-life organizations has almost invariably gone through training programs to trap people…

Oh lawdy how we looooove us some bad mommies in this country! It never ceases to amaze me how some people will latch onto any hint that a woman lacks (what the observer feels is) the appropriate level or variety of maternal instinct at every waking moment of her child's life. Look, I'm not a mom, but from what I can…

From some of the comments (including yours) I can see that my imprecise language has ended up being misunderstood. What I meant was don't let people telling you you absolutely WILL get injured keep you from seeing if running is right for you. If you're injured, you definitely shouldn't be running - no doubt. I…