30 Rock made me uncomfortable a lot.

Yeah, the show makes fun of white people a TON.

Really? 30 Rock did *blackface.* I'm pretty sure more than once. I also can't think of any Hispanic characters on 30 Rock who weren't maids or domestic help (including Salma Hayek). 30 Rock had more black characters, but it also just had more characters.

Yes, it makes me feel really good too. I may have already watched the whole thing twice. Just maybe.

Or even BEING happy some of the times, while being incredibly unhappy/fucked up at other times. During incredibly dark, legit suicidal periods in my life, I have also had really wonderful moments.

Early episodes too — she wakes up choking Titus. It's played comedically, but that's some serious PTSD shit. But yeah, she is complex in that she is simultaneously naive and bubbly, and grappling with/holding off on grappling with real dark stuff.

I hate House of Cards. I love this, and I love OITNB.

Yeah, I've been describing as a combo of 30 Rock's absurdity and Parks and Rec's upbeat vibe.

Yeah, there is actually something very real (albeit cartoonish) about the way it handles trauma. Sure, some people become dark, substance-abusing messes after surviving trauma, but some don't. A lot of people with sunny dispositions continue to have those sunny dispositions, while simultaneously suffering from at…

It's the language and obsessiveness that are being criticized here.

But a restrictive dress code isn't that big a deal; it's not that different from a uniform. If they said "dark skirts or slacks, light tops that cover the shoulders, dress shoes with little or no heel" for the girls, that would be equally restrictive, and not horribly sexist. No one thinks "restrictiveness" is the…

Yes, girls have more choices when it comes to clothing, so yes, there will be more to say. But they are told to "be pretty enough to show you are a woman" (the boys aren't told to be "handsome enough to show they are men" — that is fucking absurd), and "covered enough to show you're a lady," because god forbid, if you…

Yupppp. Would it to be too self-serving to bemoan the burdens of being over-intellectual/ overeducated here?

Therapeutic social workers are a lot cheaper than psychiatrists or psychologists, and if you just wanna talk like, once a month, it could be workable?

Oh, totally. I am someone who likes to know/find the answer to *everything,* and while I know it intellectually I have yet to accept the fact that in relationships, you just don't get to know the answer all the time.

Right but I mean, that's true of a lot of disorders, and therapy is often pretty important to management. I am bipolar and that's not gonna go away, but a combo of therapy/meds is helping me to live my life and be a functional human, i.e., management.

This is great. I recently had a shitty thing with a dude where he got my hopes way up then brought them crashing down, but for once, I said exactly what I wanted and held firm. I said what I wanted and he agreed to it, then tried to change our agreement; I held firm, and he turned into a whiny man child. Part of me…

Yupppp. I have decided it is my one approved usage of "females" as a noun.

I love all of it, and Mark is wrong for not being an immediate fan. Incorrect opinion, sir.

I was going to make all of these comments, so instead I'll just say that I totally agree with you.