Well that just makes me want to barf. I was really pleased with the diversity of the book.

OMG. WAT!?!

If a stranger tried to touch my stomach I would use my pepper spray.

I know!! He’s sooooo close and then “oh shit, what the fuck WHAT NOW?”

It really doesn’t, though. Aside from names, there’s almost zero reference to anyone’s ethnicity. Sure, Venkat Kapoor is probably Indian/South Asian and the dude from JPL is probably Asian as well, but even a name like “Mindy Park” doesn’t make it clear what ethnicity she is.

Him rolling the rover when he was within spitting distance of the MAV was something I would have liked to have seen in the movie. That was gut-wrenching!

Once, when I was in the midst of seriously disordered eating and had gotten myself down to a size two, I was working my job as a habedasher and selling a watch to a woman with her daughter and she insisted on knowing when I was due and then continued defending that she thought I looked pregnant while her teenage…

YO HE IS VENN-KAT, AT THE INTERSECTION OF YOUR GIRLFRIEND’S LEGS or something.

God. I don’t work anymore, but for real. Make a new email for work. Not “skyhighkelly” because no,

This one time I got offered a seat in the bus multiple times on account of my unexistent pregnancy. I think I yelled DUDE I’M NOT PREGNANT. Then some other time I was just too tired to argue and went with it. I think I said I was three months along and no I don’t know the gender and eh I hope it’s a girl. People need…

Knowing she was teased about her nose, I’d never say anything to her about the puppet (because we see each other so often!) but it’s the eyes, the smile and cute dimples that make the puppet resemble her - not the nose.

First rule of asking a woman about her pregnancy. ....don’t ever ask until you’re absolutely, positively, 100% sure she’s pregnant. As in, when you can see the head coming out. “Oh hey, congrats on the pregnancy”, as the kid is coming out. That’s an appropriate time. Not a minute sooner.

The movie stayed mostly true to the book but leaving out the fact that Watney LOST CONTACT WITH NASA was a major disappointment. I will give major kudos to the director and producer for not dumbing-down the science when making making the movie. I do have to disagree somewhat with “whitewashing”..... “Venkat Kapoor”…

At one of my jobs, we got a resume from someone with a very unprofessional, yet hilarious, email address. Can’t remember it exactly, but it was something like this:

Yes, in the end, it was very fun.

Cady Cady but Cady

UGHUGH that is so fucked. I *love* Andy Weir for writing his novel (which he initially did for free and for fun) with such a diverse cast of characters.

it’s the conservative go-to because even the dumbest asshole in America knows who Hitler is and what he did. they never mention Stalin’s purges, or Mao’s “Great Leap Forward”, or any of the shit that went down in South America (frequently with American support) because none of that is covered in public school history…

loved the movie

I've read it. It was awesome. Very smart lit.