But if she's an ad exec for a company that produces anti-feminist content, she's also showing women and girls that the status quo is for them to be objectified, materialistic, passive, and skinny—or miserable if they're not skinny. So we disagree on that point.

Exactly. I believe LaComtesse was presenting a choice between two feminists who both choose paths to which some other feminists might object (regardless of the consequences of those choices/paths), and Temperance started factoring in the women's potentiality to generate change, blah blah too many factors.

It depends whether the ad exec uses her position to further a feminist agenda or not. This reminds me of that Bible passage where the rich man gives money ("talents") to three men, and the "godliest" of them is the one who does the most with the money in terms of investment. So if a stay-at-home mom raises four…

Whoa! I always liked Cap Garland better (saucier), but an image search reveals he wasn't as much of a fox as Manzo. Not shabby, though.

I'm sorry, I don't have a link! I actually believe I read it in my college social psychology textbook.

Totally. It's like Paris Hilton's fake voice, and then you hear her normal voice and you're like KEEP DOING THAT. I read somewhere that men and women actually have pretty comparable natural speaking registers (different singing registers/ranges, obviously, although I know a lot of sopranos who actually have speaking…

You're not alone. I feel guilty for being irritated by her voice, though, because she seems like a pretty awesome person. I also seem to be alone in my distaste for Lea Michele's voice, even though unlike most people, I'm really not bothered by her persona at all. Obviously her voice is really powerful, but she does…

/coslayed

Are Whitney's nails fake? They seem to be overlapping her cuticles.

Growing up, I shit you not, my mom got my twin sister and me a board game called "Perfect Wedding." You had to navigate the board, hoping to land on category blocks so that you could roll the money dice and determine how much you could spend on a given aspect of your fantasy wedding, such as flowers (huge white…

Holla for 28-year-old women in nine-year relationships who don't give a shit about getting married! (I do want kids.) I have five weddings to attend in the next five months, three of them in conservative Texas towns, and I am NOT looking forward to having people repeat disapprovingly, "NINE years?!"

Thanks again! (Also: looove Issa Rae.) Best of luck to you as well.

Thanks! I guess if the worst-case scenario is that I write scripts for 10 years and nothing comes of it, my life's still pretty good. But it's frustrating to be 99% sure you'd love a job and be very good at it, yet to have no clear-cut path to success. (I wish I wanted to be a doctor, is what I'm saying.)

Ah, then we are in complete agreement!

Nobody is proposing hiring unqualified people, just qualified women and minority members.

Ugh! Do you mind telling me the age bracket of the women you're saying are "just now" making connections? I'm an aspiring TV writer who's taking the steps you describe (working on specs, applying to fellowships), but I'm disheartened by the realization that my super-strong desire to be a mom is at odds with the…

The puppy has a BELLY BUTTON!!

I don't know who you're talking to, lady, but I assure you, Branson is NOT a character people should be disliking. He's a revolutionary, so he stands up for basic human freedoms and is full of passion. (Hot.) Also, he's mega-hot. Finally, he has an awesome accent. In sum, Branson is empirically righteous and hot and…

Uh, you mean you KNOW Branson is hot. Pretty sure his hotness is an empirical fact.

But there are some treadmills where the TV audio doesn't work! Agreed on the bus thing, though.