On the one hand, the critique here is valid; on the other hand, a bunch of adults are now piling onto a minor child for being an idiot in the comments, which kind of rubs me the wrong way because when I did dumb things as a kid I had the luxury of dealing with the fallout in relative anonymity and thus growing and…

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Hello Jon.

Yeah, I can see that, but also, you can be smart and have nothing to contribute on a particular topic. Also, I’m guessing the questions have at least as much to do with her birthplace and heritage as they do her credentials.

I think knowing when your opinion will add little to no value to a thorny issue might be a pretty good indicator of intelligence and restraint. Honestly, as an internet commenter, I can’t say the same for myself.

oh, yeah, she looks ALOT like her

But then people’s faces change as they age too...

Eh, to me Chelsea looks like what would happen if you combined Bill and Hilary’s faces, but who knows. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

“BUT THIS IS HOW MY GRANDPARENTS MET AND THEY’VE BEEN 2GETHER 4EVER”

Elaine was based on Carol Leifer. George was based on Larry David.

How does her face look so much like Adam Scott’s face?

Hard to say, though ... I can’t really think of any precedent for this. The co-founder, Alexis Ohanian, is also incredibly unpopular right now on the site, though there aren’t calls for him to bow out of the management end. I don’t think the difference there is that he’s a man, though, I think it’s more that since…

Shame about the mysogynistic tone of the petition, since it sounds like there are a lot of very valid criticisms of her work and it would be otherwise fairly impressive for a user groundswell to oust the CEO of a popular site.

“Jet fuel doesn’t melt steel beams. —H”

Yeah. Which, granted, 3 characters in a show that’s been a few seasons isn’t something to brag about, but it seems like there have been some efforts to make it more diverse...

For what it’s worth, Donald Glover and Jessica Williams have both been on the show.

Hey now, Jim Carrey is a great comedian. A doctor? Not so much...

Though I’m not a fan of diagnosing people from my computer, completely agree about Tania Head.

Yeah, I agree — that seems very likely. Especially since it’s based on a comic book, so (while I’m admittedly not familiar with the comics), I think it’s safe to say the writers probably weren’t just pulling stuff out of their ass and had a somewhat coherent framework to draw from. I think I give the writers a little…