I really gotta start hiring some of the people here to write my comments for me because you've nailed exactly the point I was trying to make, and I went long with my reply.

I didn't say it had to make everybody happy, and I didn't say no one should ever be offended. I said I was personally bored that a clever idea was executed with such a damn boring view of the world. "I shall investigate my failures through art!" is done so often and in so many ways, that to combine a very neat idea…

Exactly my feelings. For a project that's meant to investigate a series of romantic relationships with women, shoe designs could be really interesting, and these actually are interesting and seem to be thought-out (though how much is him and how much the designers, I couldn't say [silently siding with designers). It's…

I have never seen Rosemary's Baby, and maybe this will be good, but given how iconic it is, what's the point of changing everything? Why not just double remaster it or something and do a retrospective?

I envy you, though it may be a location thing. I grew up down South, and I spent a lot of time with people asking me when (never if) I would have children, and when I said, "I'm not interested in children," the list of responses generally ran:

Yes, but as Venker isn't making that argument—and is, in fact, making a really skewed version of the opposite of that argument—it wasn't' relevant to how it affected my feelings on the discussion. Nor should it be relevant, I think, to the overall discussion of this matter, which should be focusing on how fucked up it…

I am always amazed when women like Ms. Venker talk about how terrible it is that women work and don't stay home and have babies and how they completely miss that they are part of the "problem" they see in that they are making a living telling the rest of us to stop making a living, and they are going away from their…

I'm the breadwinner in my house because my guy is in a creative field, and we decided a long time ago that I'd bring in the money while he would take care of the house and general chores (laundry, cooking, errands) and work to get himself established. Funny how, when kids aren't involved, there's not a shit ton of…

You know, if a major part of my life for months revolved around being investigated for an illegal act, I'd have some canned answers ready to go. Because that's how you play the public relations game: you have answers you've worked on with your attorney. You have come up with answers to every question you can possibly…

From my personal grouch perspective, I would be the woman in the bottom left no matter if I had a ring or not because being forced by three of my friends to stage a picture with ten people besides them in order to make certain everyone sees how so very important the sparkly ring is would make me want to scream. I…

Comics that will not make girls feel like they have to question their spines:

The Ramona Quimby books would be superb. She'd also be able to easily read the Nancy Drew books. If she has any interest in comics, the Marvel Adventures series is good (they're specifically geared to a very all-ages set), and it'd also make a good gift for the three-year-old, who can't read yet, but bright pictures…

I agree. I see some people mentioning they don't find the ghostwritten stuff too great, but I never read that far, and I really like a lot of his answers on things and the recognition it's easier to make television aimed at women than it is to get movies aimed at that. And I LOVE that he took that dig at the original…

Place it strategically if you can. My mom caught me reading it when I was 13 and asked if I knew what it was about, which was super weird because my mom never asked, and when I said, "it's siblings locked in an attic," she said, "...okay," and backed away, and that got me to read faster because what was mom so freaked…

Don't forget Phil Jupitus and Rob Brydon! Although, if you add them in, you're watching a LOT of QI at once.

He is literally how I learned "dietitian" is the protected term and a "nutritionist" may be shady. I do not assume every nutritionist is shady, but it's amazing how, knowing that, and then seeing shit on juice fasts and "detoxes" how many of those things are recommended by nutritionists.

I think you've really nailed it. Nothing's ever going to be 100% safe, and there's, what? Two or three generations between people talking now and pre-vaccine days? I remember my fourth-grade teacher describing polio and whooping cough to us and explaining how vaccines wiped out those things, so every time I see…

I was just gonna recommend it! And the emotion in it feels really honest, too. I described it to a friend as a light romantic drama with actual sex.

I always end up making a list on these people: People die when seeking cancer treatment. Should we stop treating cancer and let more people die? People die when wearing seatbelts? Should we stop putting seatbelts in cars so more people die? People die from unintended drug interactions. Should we stop creating medicine…

Dara O'Brian has a very on-point bit about how we discuss the 'softer' sciences in the media. Say to a physicist, "Explain to us how the sky is blue," and the physicist does. You do not then turn to someone who is not a physicist and say, "and why do you think the sky is blue?" and accept both as equal answers in the…