Exactly. I’m not sure why the article seems to imply that burying people is somehow bad?

He’s excellent. His book, “Radical”, was eye-opening, but at the same time, he spends a lot of time rationalizing. There’s a particular paragraph after 9/11 that I’m thinking of, where he wants to rationalize why some Muslims were pleased, even though he admits that it’s flawed thinking.

It’s not just the UK. It’s everywhere. Since we women can’t be trusted to take a pill every day, most OB/Gyns are insisting that women get the IUD.

Show, don't tell. The scene after a certain crucial character died, she's groomed and pretty and is off doing productive things. In the books, she doesn't bathe for months and essentially is in a room rocking herself back and forth. I get that it might be too harsh, but the love of her life died and she's putting on…

She's about 18 in the books and 25 in real life. Close enough.

She “ended up with him” not because “he was there”, but because he was the only truly selfless person she had ever known. The constant reiteration of the Bread Story shows you just how much it affected her, and changed her. That act when she was a kid showed her how she wanted to be, and her volunteering to take…

I thought the same. Jennifer Lawrence didn’t look like she had work done but she does ascribe to the “blank, leaden” expression to denote pain and anguish. It doesn’t always sell.

The truth is, no matter what her plan was, anyone in that rebel army had a 90% chance of dying. Those pods placed every few feet made sure of that.

I don't remember this scene! I will say this: the pods in the movie are definitely watered down than the pods in the book.

Actually that “tough ending” you mentioned isn’t “sold” by any of the characters. I saw the movie last night at a pre-screening and you definitely see how the director felt the book ending was too dark and tried to lighten the mood.

He’s not a woman in war-torn Africa. He’s a white, privileged celebrity. His HIV is absolutely a result of reckless behavior. There’s no reason why he should get HIV unless he’s reckless and sleeping around.

Because Turkey does support ISIS.

Righttttt. Because before WWI, those same tribal fiefdoms were perfectly at peace with each other. Because fluid boundaries are always welcome amongst people whose greatest wish is for the other tribe to die a horrible infidel-esque death.

Isn’t it sad? In this case, I don’t think she had it particularly rough, but she never valued women’s contributions and always somehow felt them intellectually inferior, better designed for doing tasks and not forward-thinking executives. She herself put her husband’s wishes first (who’s co-owner, but since deceased).

That’s exactly what I did. When I was hired in a management position, I got a performance review that I wasn’t as “friendly” - that I didn’t always call people by their names. (Truth is - I just forgot them! It took me months to learn everyone’s names).

Is that your real name? I live in LA and I’ve been debating whether to sue my employer for a while now, but I just don’t want a scarlet letter on my resume forever more.

Sigh. It sucks. I had two kids while working at my current employer. Both times they didn’t let me take the full entitled maternity leave from the state of CA (12 weeks. With the first one I got FOUR WEEKS only, the second I managed 11), but there’s just no way to sue them over it.

I hate exercise. Hate it. I basically love dancing, so I would try to go to these exercise classes that incorporate dance elements (not zumba) to make it more palatable. Then I had a kid and I just can’t go out at night anymore, especially because work also got harder.

It’s not a personality type. It’s actually a pretty well-documented, tested blueprint for fulfillment, maturity, self-actualization, and sometimes lasting happiness. There are literally hundreds of psychological articles on the subject. People who have a “personality” that just care about the pleasures they should…

A home goes through ups and downs. Anyone that believes otherwise is deluding themselves. I have a child with autism - the diagnosis was one of the most stressful and painful part of our lives, and my home was not “happy”. So, pray tell, does that give the makers of that home an excuse to go and cheat?