Question: there doesn't seem to be any suggestion that the original lender is in any great need of the money themselves; does this change the perception of their annoyance? I absolutely do think her friends need to pay her back because that's what they agreed on and that is honest. But the lender didn't specify as…

Yep. I learnt a while ago never to lend anything- money, clothes, books, whatever- to people unless I was fully prepared to never ever get it back and happy to write it off as a gift. Probably sounds a bit selfish, but between people who have never tried to return things, tried to return things but couldn't, and…

Why does the university one bother you so? I've never heard an American say "Go to the college."

Given that it's an extraction from promenade, I'd be in favor of making it a verb. As in, "Will you prom with me?" or the far classier, "Will you promenade with me?" And then you'd wear Victorian garb and spend the night constructing elaborately coded flower bouquets. Damn, you don't even need to be in high school for…

Oh my good God, can you IMAGINE the credibility you'd have for the rest of your youth if you brought the Kingslayer to prom?

Aw now c'mon Jez, this is a bit too cynical, even if I normally LOVE cynical. I thought it was kind of sweet. I've no doubt he's only really interested in her because she's famously pretty, but he's not being quite as (overtly) pervy about it as you'd suggest. His original video was pretty weird though.

Absolutely...I got so mad at one journalist who declared that returning to work when you had young kids was "tantamount to child abuse." But it's equally annoying when some working mothers sneer at SAHMs as "doormats" or "parasites" (two words I have actually heard women use IRL). I think the truth is most of us are…

I don't think anyone's asking you to feel bad for SAHM's...like you say, they're lucky to be in a position to be able to make that choice. They're undoubtedly privileged, but is that privilege innately anti-feminist? I personally don't think so. I think what a lot of people are getting at in the comments is that not…

This is a great way to put it. And of course it's possible to unpick the reasons behind personal choices (has Melissa been shamed for being messy and "unladylike" in the past? Does Dave do the yard work because his dad told him real men don't bake?) and still enjoy your own choices, and to advocate so that other…

A lot of the single mothers I work/have worked with have really good support networks; parents or grandparents etc. who were willing to be free childcare. When I was working in retail, a few of the mothers who were also good friends would arrange alternate shifts so that they could each care for the other's kids while…

Yep, I think this is a position a lot of people find themselves in. And while I totally agree with the argument that it's still a gendered decision because of the wage gap, you can still be active in feminist causes and advocate for change while at home.

It's entirely possible to be a feminist who happens to be a homemaker, in the same way it's entirely possible to be a working woman who's still sexist as all hell. It's not simply making a choice that's feminist, it's what you do with that ability. Choosing to portray your personal life choices as biological destiny…

You know, every single time Jez has reported a rape case, whether Western or non-Western, someone will always come around complaining that the article is presuming guilt. Every time. So, no, I do not think this is because it's a non-Western story.

I'm wondering if it's because she's so tall? I mean, she probably isn't famous enough yet to have people making her things, and trying to find sensibly-lengthed cocktail dresses at 6'3" must be an absolute pain. Regardless, if I had those legs I would probably get them out at every available opportunity!

It's an interesting question because our society has such messed-up attitudes to sexual violence. I can't imagine people claiming that he was making up the allegations, or that he "knew what he was getting into" or anything along those lines. On the other hand, if the rapist was another male, we'd either never hear…

Just a terrible event and venue in which to make the joke, as far as I'm concerned. It could have worked great in a Producers-style parody film, but on the night it just came across as more of the same sexism MacFarlane was supposedly lampooning.

I disliked all of their participation because it made me think they were as tone-deaf as MacFarlane. I particularly disliked Jennifer Lawrence's fist-pump- yeah, good for you that as an up-and-coming actress you have yet to succumb to the industry standards that these older actresses are now being ridiculed for. It…

I thought it was pretty much an open secret that MacFarlane has been bored with Family Guy for a while now- he's even said in the past that he thinks it should have ended a couple of seasons ago but feels it's too popular for him to do so. I suppose it must make him a lot of money even if he's just phoning it in.

I got that it was meant to be satire. I just thought it was piss-poor satire.

Yep. I grew up in a perfectly normal middle-to-upper-middle-class neighborhood with sky-high property values. A couple of my friends dabbled lightly in the milder recreational drugs, everyone drank from about 15 upwards, most of us drank to excess at least once or twice over the next few years. The worst thing that…