@closetalker11: I completely understand, I'm guilty of talking to people on the weight benches when I see members I know. But there are always those people that really don't seem to notice the other people around them.

@evafortuna: Try the pain of expelling said "son" during a medication abortion or a non-anesthetized surgical abortion.

@TurtleSpeak: At least people don't usually do that at my gyms (plural because we have two branches in our area). People regularly ask to rotate in with your sets, and it seems to keep everyone moving. But the stretching and the cardio machines SLAY me. I want to say "trust me, no one is looking at you, and if they…

@quatrevingtquatre: Then I too, am a man.

The gym has become a place to socialize, and I have to admit it can be frustrating.

@LaComtesse: Exactly. Many commenters here have expressed similar feelings on other posts and shared similar situations. If you were the woman in question and weren't pregnant, how would you feel? And knowing that, it gets a little harder to dismiss passengers as outright "rude".

@Sputnik_Sweetheart: And we can completely forget about that Star Trek convention and anime fan fiction.

So cream pies, french maids, and Holocaust jokes are what passes for geeky these days?

Well, to be perfectly honest, Maxim's target audience is in line with Cosmo's: the majority of its readers usually fall between the 16-24 range, not the 25-34 range (even though there are many subscribers in the 25-34 demographic as well).

@LolaLane: The scene where (don't remember the character name) is passed out drunk, getting screwed, and wakes up. He's startled, but she tells him to keep going and passes out. Many people felt that was an equivalent of date or acquaintence rape since it seemed like she was too drunk to cive consent (not that I…

Agreed on some points.

Why is it that when something is "hard", we insist on dumbing it down instead of working harder to understand it? And why do we resent to people who do get it?

Rue McClanahan was also the star of the Driver's Safety video produced for my Driver's Ed class. Considering that it was produced by a state senator for one of his mid-sized town's driving schools, I can't imagine that she was paid well, if anything.

@kityglitr: I just think that over the years, Idol has embraced and promoted the "underdog" effect. Crystal was pretty much a judge's favorite: see also Tamyra, Melinda Doolittle, the Irish girl from last season...

American Idol has never been about finding the best singer, it's about finding the singer with good enough chops and presentable enough looks to be packaged into a pop idol that would have some modicum of financial success. Granted, this has backfired as the public caught on.

women should sacrifice career goals for the health of their relationships

She has been one of the "front runners" all season. For that reason alone, it's likely that she will not win. (And judging by the careers of the "winners" versus the "losers", there's not much more cache in winning.)

@Irin: I am speaking more from my own experience as a woman writer. True, you can't expect every human being to be a norm-shattering juggernaut, but I find the choice of quotes in this piece interesting. There have been many women writers on comedy shows who do not share these experiences. Generally, when you…

So the consensus is "Sci-Fi is hard, boys are loud and rude and girls are supportive and polite, want to watch The Bachelor with me?"

You know what takes strength?