FUCK YEAH!! Thank you for bringing this up. I was going to and then totally forgot because final exams. <333

I've never watched this show because I saw the trailer and I hated the over-the-top "adorkable" thing with the bursting-into-song and all that crap.

Not only that, but he doesn't even seem tempted to have sex with her in the scene. Like, he's pleased to realize she might actually want him, but he doesn't seem actually turned on in the moment, which I thought was a really cool way of saying, "Even if the girl of your dreams is coming onto you, it's not at all sexy…

All of what you say is perfect here and I had never really thought about it from this perspective because I took it for granted Nick is a good guy and not rapey but unfortunately in this life these are not things you can assume or worse, are mutually exclusive in that people wear masks. Also, good lord did my body…

Excellent point. I love the way they did that. Also, I remember the episode last season when Jess was nervous about having sex with Justin Long's character for the first time and while it was obviously exaggerated for comedic effect, it felt like a step to me that a show would even cover a female protagonist as being…

YES. I really loved how they handled it - I was worried they'd have a drunken hook-up and then three episodes of regretful embarrassment, or something.

Also, when the woman was naked, on all fours, with a dog collar around her neck, was she forced to smell the glove?

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Dude, someone is going to lose a boob using that thing.

It's a rare thing to find women of that...caliber.

Call me when you have room for a rocket launcher. Until then, not interested.

Yes, me too. I cringed when I saw the title and was relieved to see so many intelligent comments expressing my exact feelings.

That's not the criteria for calling something epidemic though.

I think some of those numbers may have to do with self-reporting. "Losing Weight" isn't the 100% morally "bad" thing that texting at the wheel is. In fact its opposite (being fat) is the moral failure. Texting at the wheel is at least acknowledged to be irresponsible (if not dangerous to others and morally…

Normally, I'd totally agree with you on the 'gleefully critical and insensitive' bit... But the reason we're being critical is that the author is insensitive to both those with eating disorders and to anyone with good taste in writing.

Holy shit, Jezebel, can we seriously just leave Amanda Bynes alone for one fucking second?? She very CLEARLY has body dysmorphia. You would think that a "feminist" blog would have some decency when talking about a kind of illness that affects women all over the world. Get it together and find some real material that…

Thank you for making the point about promoting/perpetuating a certain world view that I was too lazy to make.

Ditto. I am very tired of the "barbie princess" being the main character and everything taking place in ritzy places—in books, series, movies etc. I get it is wish-fulfillment for some to read about that but. it. is. so. boring. I find following stories about people you might meet in everyday life infinitely more…

I'm sure they CAN as they've had no other choice for centuries but that doesn't really seem like a good excuse for people to continue creating work that DOES NOT REFLECT OUR CULTURE. This isn't a period piece. It's meant to mirror "real life".

I really think the people commenting actually value creative writing. Wich is why they call out generic, cliché writing. I tried not to criticize the style (is it the same word in english ? maybe I mean writing - I'm not a native speaker), cause the writer can read the comments and I felt bad about it, but I…