It and the other low rated episode were the ones that got away from the main story of Joel and Ellie, weren't they? I imagine it's one of those cases where "subverting expectations" doesn't work well.

>Am I the only one that liked Suicide Squad?

Which one? The second was alright-ish, the first was a handful of action scenes without any kind of real structure to hold it together.

More relevant is that the xe/ze crowd are going to be younger on the whole, what with insisting on a neologism for a basic part of speech to refer to them.

>"Was" being the operative word.

...and it was replaced with "whatever the judge thinks is best". For judges that were either trained under "tender years" or grew up in the environment created by it. The social inertia of tender years extends beyond it being formally ended.

But then, there's notable opposition to the very idea of not favoring mother's - Kentucky passed a law a couple of years ago requiring judges to start from a position that equal custody is best unless there's a good reason otherwise. This was heavily fought, significantly by feminist groups who described supporters as the "abusers lobby", as in their mind the only reason a man would want significant custody of his children is to use them as a means to continue abusing their mother. The law passing was considered a big win by men's rights supporters specifically because it reduced bias in family courts.

The USA...we have some of the best healthcare in the world...if you can afford it. If you can't, then, well you are in the majority that drives our terrible healthcare stats.

This could be a part of it. The brightest blue states on the chart tend to be places with relatively low cost of living vs California at the opposite end of that scale. Getting paid a SF or LA area salary while living in WV or WY will make that money stretch a lot farther.

WV paid for my college to get me to stay there, work commitment of 1 year per semester they paid for, had to maintain a certain GPA, and it had to be a state funded college. Failure to meet the work commitment would have made it convert to a loan at the highest rate of any federally backed student loan at that time. With those caveats it was essentially a full ride.