“Omg me too. I really hate how these two, after all they’ve been through, are so suspicious of each other. Why aren’t they just relieved to be alive and talk everything out? It’s been many years and I find it really odd that they’ve reverted to their childish behavior.”

I agree, but found Sam’s inattentiveness to ring a false note. I get he was distracted, and Gilly was largely talking about trivia, and that he also doesn’t have enough of the puzzle pieces to really get the significance, but Rhaegar annulling his marriage should have gotten his attention.

“Agreed that Arya lovers hate Sansa.

I very much want Arya and Sansa to see through Little Finger’s crap, and to come together for the good of their family and the north.

“I love Sansa. I like Arya too. But I’ve thoughts for years, since originally reading the books, that if their situations were reversed that they’d both have died immediately”

I’m not sure I would call it egregiously sexist, but the term often gets bundled together with the whole “nice guy” thing, and the implied belief that women owe men sexual payment for friendship, loyalty, a bending of the knee. And I can easily see some people, largely without realizing it, thinking maybe Dany does…

You’re right about her type, but why can’t that change? I didn’t marry my type; I married someone who made me rethink my type. :) I truly believe people can value different qualities at different times, and one of the qualities her previous attractions have had in common is little to no interest in her ... unavailable…

That was my moment of the night!

“Only in the friend-zone since.”

I disagree with Julianne’s taste in men. Strongly disagree. :)

I ask you to consider the possibility I understood exactly what you meant, but then pretended not to in order to make a joke, and that I included the wink in order to express that.

The anti-Trump was born (conceived?) in Hawaii. I’ve seen the birth certificate.

Gah, something put the flunk (typo, but it stays) in that funky spunk, and I want to be nowhere near it.

I know — sex after marriage. Blech! ;)

I just finished You Play the Girl: And Other Vexing Stories That Tell Women Who They Are, by Carina Chocano. She is about my age — later forties, so we have the same cultural milestones.

You missed the earmuff homage? :)