Hollywood certainty doesn’t like women leads, silly us! But in this case the novel and source material is written with Bateman’s character as the protagonist by a male writer who I would bet isn’t too far from his subject.

This. Thank you. This is a man in charge of giving funding; it is literally about money. He doesn’t give a damn about due process or sexual assault or the accused or the accusers or whatever other angle on the story there is. It's an expedient excuse for a political end.

Thank you! That’s very kind of you to reply! I thought of RA as a possibility, too — another reason for the rheumatology specialty.

Hi, just wanted to chime in because I feel for you. I’m currently in the “maybe fibromyalgia” camp, too, and I get it. I see a rheumatologist in a couple of weeks but am a bit on the pessimistic side at the moment. It’s gotten very debilitating very quickly — as you say down thread it’s hard to have all of your…

I agree. She is terrible, and she is not improving. They need someone who can really spar with Ellis and that is not happening. Not even remotely. I think one reason the scenes with the therapist are fun is because as an actress she can keep up with Ellis.

That kid is awesome. She's great with Ellis and I swear she outacts the woman who plays her mother/female lead every time they share a scene. The Lucifer-Trixie Show would be more entertaining than the current show.

Starred because I love that line about parents getting caught in traps. That's AMAZING. :)

True story. I honestly don’t know — and I agree. I mean, at the very LEAST pick a specialty or work somewhere you won’t encounter ob/gyn issues. It’s also so selective — would they deny cancer patients chemo because it may interfere with “God’s will?” Or not treat infection with antibiotics? No, because it’s modern…

I just wanted to add that I don't agree AT ALL, in case that wasn't clear.

This has been covered more by others, and I’m not Catholic (do have an M.Div. though) but I think the general religious/doctrine reason is because humans are not to have any kind of authority over human life. Life and death are in God’s hands only (so to speak), with no human interference in either direction.

That was actually my first thought — that she said it hoping he’d let go, either from hearing something he wanted or that it would startle him enough so he would let go or she could pull away. I’ve been off NCIS for a long time, but Pauley was known at the time for doing homeless advocacy work. It’s why she not only…

I had a boss who said, after I mentioned something that was still going on at least a year post-baby, “Well, let’s face it, having a baby wrecks you forever.” She has a dry sense of humor and three children and I was all, PREACH. Hormones are powerful things.

This, times a thousand. I’m a preschool director with thirteen years of early childhood teaching experience and PreK-2nd grade has changed radically and fundamentally in the last 20-25 years. PreK is definitely the new Kindergarten and kids now do first and second grade work in Kindergarten. They are being asked to…

This, too. My wife is from a family with about as much and varied types of abuse going on in that home as you can imagine, and CPS was never involved. No doctor, teacher, etc. reported, and if they did, well, money and whiteness went a long, long way in Georgia.

Ah, I agree totally. I wasn’t clear if the doctor had recommended they sit it out or not. But as I said, I had three or four active follicles, too, and at 36 and a first try, that was considered a good thing. My doctor was pretty sure we wouldn’t be successful at all. We were, but with one. My fertility regimen was…

Thank you for this, and the information.

If you read her feed, it's pretty clear she knew that and the agent in LA said it would get fixed in Charlotte. It wasn't, so she had to take the other seat.

This. If you read the feed itself it becomes clearer she’s talking about one male employee she doesn’t name. What she’s saying in what you quoted is that she was assigned seat 1A in LA for the second leg of her flight and both she and the agent in LA knew you can’t sit in that seat with a dog, so she was told it would…

Not like people probably care, but if you go to her Twitter feed itself it's pretty clear she's talking about one employee, a man, and that she knows she was over the top and her frustration was unfortunately talking. She's tweeted American about sending the difference between what she paid and what she received to…

Oh, absolutely. And the issues go hand-in-hand, particularly in this case.