Well, voter ID will affect people very differently today than it would have in 1965. Felon disenfranchisement is the bigger problem and not addressed in the VRA at all. I'm just annoyed that people are like "now I can't vote," because that's not what's happening now in 2013. Who here doesn't have a photo ID?

No one took away anyone's right to vote. Sheesh. The VRA ruling sucked, but there's no immediate loss to anyone, and the administration is gearing up to change it legislatively. So yes, you have permission to celebrate a hard fought narrow victory for all gay people, even the non-white ones.

I have mixed feelings about putting the criticism squarely on her as opposed to the industry. Dodai - I think you are speaking to the broader aspects and this is a really great piece. She really looks like she's having fun and playing with boundaries like people do when they are her age - especially privileged kids…

See my previous comment.

I'm not interested in hypertechnical parsing of your posting. That is a rhetorical style based on deflection. You agree that you're being purposely obtuse to make a point, but it's not clear to anyone (aka myself and the other commenters) why your point requires such pretense.

you mean to respond to @prissypuss, right? Because I agree with you.

Being aware of the potential pitfalls of transgressing gender norms is not "making negative assumptions," it's living in reality. It's this acknowledgement of reality that makes their achievement even more remarkable! I don't know why you think we have to pretend that reality doesn't exist in order to appreciate…

I hate to say this, but doesn't Ayelet Waldman only write about motherhood? As for the rest of them, the key seems to be having a partner with a similarly flexible schedule and an unstructured upper-middle class to wealthy lifestyle. The true hero of working mom authors is Toni Morrison, who did her best work after…

I'm all about Uma here.

She is just so pretty.

Wow, that makes me like her even more!

A former junior co-worker used to grate on my nerves by saying "good job!" whenever I had some achievement. There was something more judge-y about it than simply sharing in someone's accomplishment by saying "Congrats!" - and trust me she was in no position to judge anyone's work. But I dunno, someone of Beyonce's…

But Tosh is consistently horrible and degrading. And that does matter. I wouldn't personally go see him perform live, because I know that. Louis can get away with more because he's just a better comic, able to mock without exploiting. We're more willing to go there with him because he has earned that trust.

And she was a nurse on ER too, who had a relationship with the Croatian hottie.

totally. i was just thinking that.

Eeew, bad. Also totally off base about Mariah. Thanks for sharing.

Ooh when? Mariah's kind of ridiculous, and I support anyone calling her out for it, but I'm curious how it was racist.

Indeed, the glasses and beards guys. Keanu looks good for 48, actually. Not even grey? And he seems like he would let it show, so wow.

He's like a real life Bodhi from Point Break!

So - okay, I agree that those sound like great victories. What about this - a woman applies for a sudden job opening during her first trimester, gets the job, moves with her family across country, then a month after starting the job announces her pregnancy - that she knew about when she interviewed - to her…