I'm sorry life is piling on, Tom. I wish the best for your dad.

On a writing forum someone said that the readership of Twilight was evenly split between male and female. I instantly thought there was no way that could be true. A quick Google search didn't uncover any definitive data, but I did find this interesting map of where Twilight is most liked on goodreads. It looks just like an election map.

Twilight Map

(Yes, I'm being deliberately obtuse--skip right on over me)

Well, the birth canal seems like a good way to head at first, but I like to think that every baby hits that "perhaps this was not the wisest course of action" moment.

I instantly thought there was no way that could be true.

Color me skeptical, but I'd have thought the only men who've read those books would be involved in publishing them or adapting them into movies.

The Harry Potter books, I can see a somewhat even split for.

And then you have the babies who know and good thing and aren't leaving if they have anything to say about it (metaphorically speaking).

edited to add: in response to Debet's post

Color me skeptical, but I'd have thought the only men who've read those books would be involved in publishing them or adapting them into movies.

Well, the goodreads data pretty much supports that, but it isn't a proper survey. OTOH, there are enough data points that I suspect it isn't far off with the 12 to 1 ratio. And boy howdy does it look like election results.

Tom, health-ma for your dad, and coping-ma for you.

I had to bring my laptop to work today, for perfectly legitimate work purposes, but now I have a really strong urge to blow off the rest of the afternoon and watch Community eps.

I probably shouldn't though, huh.

Oh, Tom, much support for you all.

ita, I would put a dress-and-matching-jacket in the same category as a suit.

I'd also be very careful of evaluating trends on dress codes and perception with anecdata from just large cities or the coasts.

Also, we're adults, and a lot more comfortable with fuzzy boundaries than kids are. Kids (even middle-schoolers) tend to be a lot more hardline about dress and roles.

I'm sometimes surprised I got out of high school relatively okay, despite the fact that I wore jeans or cords and oxford shirts most of the time. In junior high I got teased, but NSM high school, where I managed to find a niche with the other nerds.

I'm sometimes surprised I got out of high school relatively okay, despite the fact that I wore jeans or cords and oxford shirts most of the time. In junior high I got teased, but NSM high school, where I managed to find a niche with the other nerds.

When I was in junior high, the big trend (for girls) was baseball-style concert shirts, with flannel shirts over then, jeans, and Timberland work boots. Which we all wore religiously for about a year.