My husband pointed out that the Uhura/Gaila scene neatly subverts the Bechdel test. Aside from "I need you to push" in the opening sequence (and I agree, that baby came out *awfully* fast), this scene is the only time that we see women speak to each other in the entire movie. They don't discuss men - they discuss the intercepted distress call from Klingon space - but the subtext on one side is "Can't you go away? I wanted to have sex!", and both women are close to naked.
Those uniforms look pretty uncomfortable, and Gaila doesn't so much as grab a shirt for herself, so clearly she and Uhura have figured out a level of modesty (or lack thereof) that suits them as roomies. So it doesn't bug me that Uhura stripped to her scanties as soon as she came in. I am not, however, going to make any claims that the point of that scene *wasn't* fan service.
such as even some sort of signal when the car's shutoff, if there is a seatbelt extended and latched in the back seat--that one seems reasonable to me, as opposed to "weight in the back seat." If someone has something secured in the back seat with a belt, getting reminded of it is reasonable.
My carseat is installed in the backseat using the LATCH system (something the government pushed through and insists car makers install), and the vehicle's seat belts are not involved. It is also possible to use the seatbelts to install the seat, but it's much more difficult to set up, and not any safer.
I am not sold on putting a car seat in front, not even rear-facing with the airbags off. Aside from the absence of LATCH installation points in the front seats (my carseat goes in and out of the car 2-3 times a week, depending on who will be picking the baby up from daycare, so ease of installation is a pretty major safety issue), the front buckets don't interact as well with the base of a carseat as the rear bench. Part of a safe installation is getting the seat base snugged as tightly against the seat of the car as possible, and the flat part of the passenger side front seat is just not wide enough for a Britax Maration. The front seat is not as safe as the back for passengers in general. I would break the law if I thought it made my child safer, but I think "put the kid in front" is a facile and unhelpful suggestion. (I also note that it does absolutely nothing for families with more than one kid.)
I don't know what a helpful suggestion would be. Put something you need in the back seat, check the windows, ask your care provider to call at nine if she hasn't seen or heard from you...
"My ear is open like a greedy shark, to catch the tunings of a voice divine."
John Donne, as quoted by Peter Wimsy in Gaudy Night.
If I was a terrorist (not that I am, as we know from previous conversations, I'm a forty-year old pervert surfing the web in my underwear), and if I had planted a nuclear bomb somewhere in Manhattan, I am fairly sure that I would be clever enough to come up with a list of really time-consuming places to search. So that, if I were tortured, I would have a bunch of answers in my pocket that would make the investigators dig up, say, half a shopping mall, or the newly-cemented portion of a construction site.
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