Either that’s a helluva generous six, or my standards are out of whack.

I sometimes find it hard to understand the saw that “Sexual assault is about power, not about sex,” mainly because I’m not a sexual abuser and don’t understand how their minds work. This story really clarifies the whole thing for me. Grabbing one of the most physically powerful men on earth in front of his wife…

I have never once read a comment on here that started with “No offence” and then managed to make it to the end of a sentence with perfect grammar and spelling. The brain must instinctively freeze up in self-defence after typing those words.

Not only that, but it sounds like multiple members of this group have agreed to drop the bride from their lives on some level ranging from “we won’t go to any event where her husband will be” to “she’s dead to me now,” and they’ve talked about it amongst themselves, but no one at all seems to have talked to the bride a…

Yeah, that July-to-November timeline for engagement to wedding is a huge red flag. That kind of turnaround is for an elopement, not something you’re expecting other people to arrange, pay for, and attend. If the LW made it clear that it was something they both pushed for, I’d shrug and say “Well, they’re too excited…

Absolutely. Some of my favorite fanfic writers also self-publish with original characters, and it always delights my soul to be able to support them. Fanfic gave them access to a pool of customers, their talent made them popular in that pool, and then when they started self-publishing they already had an audience (and…

I don’t know if I agree that it’s best for LW to focus on their feelings rather than the concrete instances of things LW has observed that are inappropriate - not all of the things LW knows have come through mutual friends, they were present in the chat for the gay joke and subsequent haranguing, and it’s unclear that…

To further the point, when I lived in Sudan, a fairly “covered” society, my boss would feed her infant son without thought in fairly broad contexts - always with only other women, but those women could be any other women (like, say, me, an employee whose paychecks she signed.) Now I’m in the US and my friends who I’ve…

Listen, I turned 32 this week (and am a white woman). Stephen Miller is enough to teach all of us to moisturize, hydrate, and also keep the evil thoughts and deeds to a minimum, it’s clear that they’re aging as hell.

I’m going to Sephora this week to buy some Kat Von D branded sparkly lipstick because it looks like the only thing I’ve ever seen that might come out of the bottle with enough glitter per swipe that I’m not adding more, and I need it for Halloween. I could not care less about Kat Von D, but good makeup is good makeup.

Again, not a lawyer, but double jeopardy means you can’t be charged for the same or similar crimes using the same facts following an acquittal or conviction, so regardless of the outcome of the case you can’t give a trial twice on the same event. I don’t know of any reason, though one may exist, why you couldn’t…

The Magnus Archives is the only legitimately frightening podcast I’ve ever found that doesn’t also suffer from serious problems - for example, I can’t accept Lore’s unwavering devotion to the “Maybe this is all real!” schtick, even when he’s talking about events that obviously never happened. And there are some good…

No one who managed a B-average through all four years of high school English is as talented as that.

In addition to the points already brought up, I’m not a lawyer but I’m pretty sure this idea runs afoul of the laws in the US regarding double jeopardy - you can’t be charged twice for the same crime. If someone attacks you once, and you seek a conviction on the basis of assault and battery and you win your case, I…

I pray for the next fanfic-to-mainstream author to be one of the hundreds of incredibly talented writers I’ve known over the last 15 years, but at this point I don’t really hold out hope.

Lol if we’re gonna be weaning ourselves off of the “trash” for “still trash, but the good trash,” Anne Rice’s oeuvre is the absolute last thing I would suggest.

One of my British friends came to stay with me for a bit when she used her gap year to go north to south down the US east coast and then on to Mexico and South America. She was fucking delighted by how cheap and good avocados were here compared to the UK. And then she got to South America and lost her goddamn mind.…

Obama is president, and Dove’s like: Every body is beautiful! Look at this conventionally attractive but slightly heavy professional model who uses our products! Aren’t we progressive!

Nothing says “I’m not the whiny bitch, YOU’RE the whiny bitch!” like writing your goddamn Master’s thesis whining about a group of strangers whose actions have no impact on you.

It’s always a tossup between “rich kid never had to learn a damn thing” or “the dementia is progressing rapidly.”