Yes!! Use of the word female in the way this article does is one of the biggest reddest flags of gross sexist grossness that a guy can fly.

Sadly, I actually think that's just a second error. Neither one makes a lick of sense as a joke.

"Cute cupcakes, Julie" is the new "Good job on those slides, Carol."

I've been dvring old eps of Mad About You and watching them every day for the last couple of months! I did not make the connection, but you're absolutely right, and I wonder if that's why I'm extra primed to see this kind of couple in a new show.

I think you left out the main reason the show works, or at least the one that made me happiest: it's a representation of a couple who clearly like each other. They're not just eye-rolling manifestations of gender roles, and the comedy doesn't come from ugh, husbands are the worst, and ugh, wives are shrews who be…

My high school tennis coach's first name was Rooney, so our team nickname was Rooney's Moonies. We never wore the skirts in school during the school day, though.

I'm also a bumble & bumble devotee, across the board. I use the whole curl conscious line-up when I leave it curly, and when I straighten I use their "straight" product, which is amazing.

Captivate is the company that owns and operates those little computer screens in office building elevators. Last week they told me that scientists had created a bulletproof human/spider hybrid. Upon research, it turned out to not be exactly true.

My first reaction was to think that this post was a self-indulgent overreaction. Because yeah, this should be a lower priority for police than any kind of violent crime. But here's the thing (and the comments really prove it) — this is not nothing, it's a pretty bad thing to have happen to you. And the fact that…

The example used in the study — assuming a nurse in a story was a woman — is pretty benign, and "confronting" someone about that would most likely be a pretty gentle, "hey, silly, did you just assume that nurse was a woman." That's a very different situation than most times you/I feel moved to call someone out on a…

I co-sign the sam shepard thing. Have you by any chance read Patti Smith's Just Kids? He's in there, many years pre-Jessica Lange, and it's interesting.

Please, for the love of wedding cake, skip the inside jokes. Referring to an inside joke does not constitute either telling a nice story about them or personalizing the toast. The audience for the toast is not only the couple, but everybody at the wedding. You end up sounding like you're trying to prove how good a…

I am fascinated by synesthesia — I had never heard of it until I read an Oliver Sacks book about the human brain's interactions with music. And then once I heard of it, it was all I could talk about for about a month straight. I kept talking about it to everyone, and then my artist sister and her friends were all,…

You're absolutely right, there is no time between those two things. I have a god-daughter who is starting 2nd grade this week, and her parents and I have already formed a serious, concrete plan that my college graduation present to her will be getting some of her 22-year-old eggs removed and stored, or whatever the…

I smell what you're cooking.

I'm so bummed I'm only seeing your comment after you've apparently edited out a Kant reference! — if ever a situation called for a rule of universality smackdown, it is parents who want to free ride their kids on everybody else's vaccination.

the "must have lines" graphic is missing the #1 one: "let's get out of here." About 20 years ago, I read that that's the most frequent line in movies, and ever since then there's one part of my brain that is on high alert waiting to hear it in every movie I see. It fits in many contexts.

I recently watched the HBO doc about the Manhattan DA's sex crimes unit — it's on HBO on demand now. If this DSK case has got you feeling mad at the DA, you might find it educational — and, frankly, comforting — to watch the doc. It was really inspiring for me to watch this group of people, almost all women,…

Does Penn Badgley not even care about being perceived as professional? Is Dan Humphrey sending a message that the world can go screw? That's what I've learned curly hair says.

I believe the girls also threw eggs at the guys. So no, not one of the asshole guys OR the asshole girls said NO.