EXACTLY. They're corporations, people, not activist groups. I'm not complaining that companies are showing more diverse commercials but not out of the goodness of their collective heart. I'm not complaining at all. (... about this, anyway.)

Don't worry, babies are durable. My baby cousin was fumbled and he's turning out fine. (... sorry, probably didn't help.) Congratulations to you and your wife on the impending new arrival! That's fantastic. When's the due date, if you don't mind my asking?

I figured Canadians probably didn't call Canadian bacon Canadian bacon. (Holy shit, that's an interesting sentence to parse), but I'd never heard Peameal or Back before. Interesting.

Is this at all related to the Paladin Press that published the book Hitman? Someone tell me it is, that'd make my day for some reason.

There has to be at least one person on cast whose character is constantly lobbying to change "Canadian bacon"'s labeling to "fradulent bacon".

"I think three-quarters of the American public agree that - "

Pretty sure GoogleImaging that would freak anyone out, ick. That shit's disturbing.

One time this winter I even thought I saw an Internet-y commercial with an interracial lesbian couple on a cable network in Maryland... but I suppose it could've been two close friends/roommates.

They also get more respect - again, from what I've seen, I'm not a journalist nor am I any kind of communications student, so I wouldn't know first-hand, but this is what I'm told. On one hand, when women try to be the very professional, "serious" anchors/on-screen reporters/whatever, they come off as "tryhards" or,…

Can someone please explain the fetishization of people in uniform?

Uh, Mardis Gras?

It is - though women start having that problem sooner. Unfortunately, if you're working onscreen and pass a certain age marker, you're likely a sitting duck no matter what gender you are, but men can stretch it out longer. I know communications students who were advised that, once they go gray, it's best to keep it…

Is this true? Someone confirm this for me because that's awesome. Google's not telling me anything.

Because there are SO many white-collar jobs these days? Not buying that one.

Not all of us are so blessed as to discriminate between jobs.

Actually, the second category ought to be "dudes for whom the three-second mindbang is so disturbing that they are distressed enough to cloak the woman in mental burqa because they're afraid of how they might react to the woman otherwise, and then write about it."

The liberal in me says "you're goddamn right it isn't!" and yet there's that annoying smarmy part that says "well, if he writes a bitchy blog about it..." and that wary-of-being-committed part of me that says "but you might not want to write a blog about that."

I was incorporating other ways in which dudes who don't know how to behave like women might be assholes. (I don't think the man in question waved his penis at anyone either.) It was me being facetious.

Ah, that's quite alright. You'd be right at home with the guy in my freshman Spanish Two class that decided "embarazar" is OBVIOUSLY a cognate for English's "embarrass" and said of his class speaking partner, in a dialogue, "Ella me embaraza."

Thank you. I've always heard so much about how the Parisian accent is delightful and blah blah blah, but... no. If the (lovely!) people from Paris I've met are any indication, the French language sounds... gross, when properly spoken. I mean, probably English does as well, I don't know, English was my first language…