'First Date'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Which seem to have largely disappeared, now that I think of it -- people haven't stopped sweating in their shirts or shaming (people they assume to be) housewives, so whatever happened to the OMG crisis-level national epidemic?
Market research indicates that ads where women do nothing but cheerfully wash their kids' clothes are marginally less offensive than ones where women gain life satisfaction from washing their husband's clothes, I assume?
No one washes those kinds of shirts at home anymore.
Huh. You're right. Thank goodness, as it allows that portion of the national shame budget to be reallocated to telling women they're destroying their children and/or betraying the feminist movement by taking a selfie!
There were also commercials in the 90's for Surf where the kids said "Phew, Dad! Your shirt smells!" which cracks me up.
Am now watching Colbert from the other night, and I can't believe how much of an asshole Rick Santorum still is.
I'm behind on both The Daily Show & Colbert. Last night I was wondering why I was watching Joe Scarborough on TDS when I could be watching Lego Batman.
"gray collar workers"
I thought it was a euphemism for people paid off the books (or under the table -- some prepositional phrase, for sure) for their labor, in an attempt to make every category of worker into some sort of "collar." Because isn't "pink collar" a thing, or wasn't someone trying to make it a thing? (Stop trying to make "fetch" happen!)
Pink collar are secretaries
Pink collar are secretaries
And nurses and teachers, right?
Pink Collar is totally a thing -- the phrase goes back to the 70s, and it's pretty widely used/understood.
I'm still at work because I'm going to a thing that starts at 7 and there's really no point in going home first. This means I can sit at my desk playing Tiny Death Star for the next half-hour, right?
I defy collars.