Kaling says she's found recurring characters in romantic comedies that just don't exist, including "the forty-two-year-old mother of the thirty-year-old male lead," she writes. "I am so accustomed to the young mom phenomenon, that when I saw the poster for 'The Proposal,' I wondered for a second if the proposal in the movie was Ryan Reynolds suggesting he send his mother, Sandra Bullock, to an old-age home."