Nerd alert. ;)

I mean, what the hell else are you supposed to do? Find out the forwarding address that they didn’t bother to tell the post office? I’ve been getting the previous tenants’ mail for 5+ years and it goes straight in the trash. Am I being an ass hole? I assumed that was nicer than opening it?

Cosigned. Just rewatched it a few weeks ago. Good movie, good hair. I’m kind of never rooting for Will/Regina’s marriage in that plot because like, hello? Have you seen Lisa Bonet?

mr. slowtraincoming: “Why doesn’t she just buy her kid a record deal like everyone else? Doesn’t DJ love her?”

On literally every competitive singing show, I want to pull people aside and say, “Staying on one note—the right note—will get you so much further than 35 of the wrong one.”

I know Alicia’s team was full at that time, and I think Blake’s was too?

I love how it’s worse to dance for creepy men than to, you know, be one. If I heard half as much criticism of those who patronize strip clubs as I do for strippers themselves, I’d die of shock.

Not remotely triggered. But I am educated and trained in this field, and a therapist who suggests that the typical birth of a child is traumatic, rather than a stressor that is challenging and most of us respond to with a range of behaviors that are mostly adaptive, is irresponsible.

Please see comment. I didn’t tell Lua that her experience wasn’t traumatic. I suggested her therapist indicating that the birth of a child is a trauma that takes 2 years to survive was problematic. Everyone seems really attached to their trauma here, and I’m not trying to take it away. I’m suggesting…

You might consider not culling your knowledge of clinical jargon from Wikipedia. But since you did, the relevant part you missed was 2 paragraphs above:

Um, your therapist should probably get a liiiiiittle bit more conservative in his/her use of the word “trauma.” It has a specific meaning in the mental health context, i.e. the context in which s/he works.

Yes. Yes yes yes yes yes. Even if they had carefully planned this baby after years together, I’d be worried, because he is just a sentient entitlement statue.

Please add accusations of rudeness (this family *loves* to call each other rude) and one mention by Kris of “bonding,” and you’ve summed up literally every line of dialog on that show.

As a mental health clinician, I can actually endorse that an absentee father is better than an inconsistently present father, which one assumes JB would be.*

“Like my corporeal entity?”

Whether he wants them or not, he’s having ‘em. He’s way too irresponsible and entitled to not. You think that guy wraps it up every time? Got a preventative vasectomy? I’m thinking no.

Uh, what? Where did you get that from? They’ve been in a monogamous relationship for 11-12 years, married for 2.

This show can be so funny and so heartfelt and hint at real grief and longing in a way I haven’t seen a show do in a really long time. Especially a show starring people of color who are allowed to be mutlidimensional!

Sorry, was that supposed to be sexy? I’ve been more turned on reading the NSFW column on Autostraddle.

Clearly you never saw Superbad.