Seriously. Nobody's clutching pearls over Dancing With the Stars, where the women practically wear underwear half of the time and appear on network television as a family television show. In conclusion:

True, the panned-out shot of the throne makes it a little difficult to tell what it is made out of unless you know what it is, but I think the artist captured the mood of it really well. I imagine that's what it would look like if you were standing that far away from it (like 30 feet?), and the rusted swords would…

I think it was because the set of the throne room was too small. The set itself had to be smaller for filming, but in the books and true to fantasy, it's an imposing and massive cavern of a room, with the iron throne suitably huge and hulking at the back.

I don't think it's too hard to understand. Basically, the world makes people feel shitty about they way they look because of a very limited definition of beauty. Women especially are afflicted, but men are too. Then people or corporations offer services to fix whatever it is they are made to feel shitty about, but…

The South Korea-based International eSports Federation holds competitions in various video games, split up by gender. This year's games for men are Dota 2, StarCraft II, Hearthstone, and Ultra Street Fighter IV. For women, the line-up is StarCraft II and Tekken Tag Tournament 2. The IeSF has been separating…

When you have no experience seeing it, it does feel weird. Before I had my baby, I struggled with the thought of breastfeeding and I'd cry over it because I really wanted to do it, but videos and images of breastfeeding grossed me out. And my mother breastfed me and is very pro-breastfeeding! I must have just picked…

I think your generation was definitely the transition for breastfeeding. My mother, a bit older than you but around the same age, breastfed and she was pretty much the only one she knew who did it. Everyone thought she was nuts. So it doesn't surprise me that there are still older women who are profoundly…

Agree, and I have kids. Tables and chairs where other people sit and eat is not the appropriate place to deal with urine and feces. I get that it's super annoying when a restaurant has no changing tables, but you can't spread poo all over the restaurant's table, that's just unsanitary. Also in my experience unless the…

Which is weird, because there is also a strain of liberalism that runs through American Catholicism at the same time. Like everything else in America, the church seems to be increasingly polarized.

Uhh, I don't think this is a Catholic thing so much as it is a Puritan thing...

Yes. It's probably best not to breastfeed right after drinking caffeine because it does go through to the baby, but it isn't going to hurt anyone. You can even drink it while pregnant in moderation (about a cup a day). I personally gave it up during pregnancy, but you don't necessarily have to.

I realize you wrote this two months ago, but I have to chime in to say that Tolkein never describes the skin color of dwarves. They could be a very dark brown, for all we know. It is our engrained presumptions about middle-earth as a fantasy, all-white pseudo-England (which, by the way, never existed in real life…

Spinning 10th doctor made me wonder if David Tennant made an appearance for a second. Well done.

Hot damn, I am impressed. Sign me up for my next Halloween outfit.

Boot camp for internet addiction seems a bit extreme. Like, couldn't you just send them to summer camp that has no internet access/technology and do regular camp activities like hiking, jumping onto very large rafts on a lake, and making crafts? It seems like trying to get people into other non-internet hobbies would…

Honestly the incest is the creepiest part of this story. Sharing a boyfriend, odd, but okay... but all at the same time? Ew.

I am honestly amazed that these games make millions of dollars from in-app purchases. These games are never good enough to warrant spending any money on them.

No, no, that's you. #notallwhitepeople like the confederate flag. #notallwhitepeople like hockey sticks. Womp, womp. I think you're not seeing the forest for the trees here.

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Oh man, I don't think I could have sung that song if you asked me to before. But watching the video all of a sudden I could sing the whole thing. My childhood!!