Does it matter? Maybe she had an inheritance. Maybe she was recently laid off. Maybe she saved up a lot of money. Maybe her ex values her raising the kids full time and provides support accordingly.

Personal geek circles and cons are different. I've also noticed over lo my many years that the physical expectations of women in many of these places have shifted considerably. It wasn't that long ago that the 'hot' and 'scantily dressed' women at conventions were largely professional models hired by companies as…

Is Friends of Lulu still active? Back when I was in the industry, that's where I met a lot like minded women professionals. Which was a practical godsend, because it can be just... really depressing to swim in the misogyny.

I don't know when you were in school, but Goth culture was not always like that. It was, in fact, one of the few subcultures where larger framed people were embraced as well. Personally, I peg the move towards the super-skinny when the aesthetic moved away from Victorian-lite frippery into more industrial/fetish…

Plenty of people don't understand this. My mother is what I consider an average consumer — she's not dumb, but she's not overly interested in where or how things are made, and is always counting her pennies. She is one of those people who ends up ordering these 'discount' dresses off of ebay or whatever and is…

Palmer looks like she's wearing the same dress she got a lot of crap over when she wore it to the Globes, the year Coraline was nominated. I'm not complaining — I'd wear the hell out of it too if I owned it.

Well, Amanda Palmer is married to Gaiman, so you should definitely add that to your nerd info stash.

The Generation Dead novels also explore zombie-human romantic relationships. (There's no sex, at least in the first two.) Those zombies aren't brain eaters, but teenagers who inexplicably coming back after death and society is attempting to reintegrate them.

Emma — she is the guidance counselor and she did talk about colleges. To Rachel and Kurt, of course. It would be awesome if she, you know, talked to Quinn about what she might like to do after school is over. If Quinn isn't applying to colleges, Emma would know about it.

"I used to play VtM when I was a teenager. Now THERE are some real vampires. "

Honestly, I am now more interested in reading/buying her book than I might have been otherwise, not in the least because I was totally unaware she had published it.

You and I have been around long enough to know that Jezebel does not use trigger warnings. We may believe that they should, but the site doesn't, and they've flat out said as much before.

She reconciled with her mother and the father was thrown out of the house — so she has a place to live. And it was implied that her family was very well off, so its not like she's hurting for money/has no options or safety net.

Right, that's what I thought. She was supposed to be the quintessential high school overachiever — good looking, smart, captain of the cheerleading squad, popular, president of the abstinence club. That's why her pregnancy was supposed to be so shocking.

I honestly think that the only person they're staying true to — character-wise — is Quinn. She's always been worried about what's going to happen after she exits the high school bubble. That's why she gave up Beth in the first place — she was afraid that having a baby would trap her in that podunk town. She thought…

Actually, I couldn't tell if they were poking fun at the stereotype or didn't get it. I mean the sign did read 'ANGRY'. I eventually decided that it was their meta way of responding to criticisms of the show by being over the top, much like Sue giving Schu that dressing down about why New Directions lost last year.…

Personally, I'd like to know what blackmail Katy Perry or her producers have over this show that they are obligated to extensively cover her catalog.

Dee from Battlestar is Sue Snell! Yeah, I've seen it. A total travesty.

Well, yeah, that was sort of part of what I meant — there's a whole host of things going on with 'younger' women that would skew that statistic. She's making the argument that younger women are attacked because they're 'sexy' and 'desirable', but that's both awfully subjective and ignorant to what else is going on in…

I think it's important to ask if rapists 'target' young women or if they just have more access to younger women, who are more likely to be out and about, going on dates, etc, etc, that puts them at risk for higher contact with a rapist (stranger rapist or not). I can think of several reasons that the statistics are…