I've recently been employing a new strategy when I see a really egregious manspreader on the subway. I am a very small person (a co-worker politely described me as "modestly sized"), and I can sometimes squeeze into the miniscule space that the manspreader has left in the seat next to him. So I squeeze myself into…

This conversation (you, MisterMcGibblets, and Emma Golddiger) is delightful and hilarious. So many layers of awesomeness.

To probably a much lesser degree, I get the same thing (I am Asian American). It happened more when I lived in a less diverse area — things like "Hey, the woman who does my hair is Chinese/Japanese/Korean. Do you know her?"

Your first sentence also explains why people constantly do the "I'm not racist, but [some really racist statement] thing. Or why people who've been caught being incredibly racist will desperately say things like, "I'm really sorry if people were offended, but I'm not a racist." Some people really seem to think that…

This is one of the best and most powerful essays I've ever read. I wish everyone in the country would read it. Thank you for this.

Funny how she (or whoever actually wrote this crap) never actually denies that he's a rapist. She just takes issue with how the media has portrayed him.

I agree — I think a truly masterful side eye requires some subtlety. Either a "blink and you miss it" quickness, or such a subtle change in expression that you can almost question whether you really saw it.

That last picture . . . there is no actor, ever, anywhere, that I love more than him. Or whom I love more than him. Whatever.

I can't tell you how much I'm enjoying your posts. If you wrote up a small treatise on the various categories of side-eye (or on any other subject where you make incredibly astute observations and then give those observations perfect names), or even a brief illustrated essay for Jezebel, I would totally read it.

Same here. I'm convinced the number is staggeringly high (even more staggeringly high than it already is), and that he'll turn out to be one of the most prolific serial rapists in history. When you think about how many lives he ruined, just for his own temporary gratification — there are no words for how monstrous…

If anything, Cosby is distinguished from the majority of black men in this country because he could depend on the powers that be for support and protection.

As I understand it, she is one of the accusers who has been talking about this for many, many years, including seeking to testify in support of the plaintiff in the big lawsuit that Bill Cosby settled years ago. Also, if I'm not mistaken, she wasn't an attorney at the time of the attack. (Interestingly, she's not…

I agree with everyone saying this bride hasn't really thought this through. She's pretty much guaranteeing that all eyes are going to be on the bridesmaids holding the corgis, and not on the bride.

I could watch that first one — the two puppies falling in unison like tiny, furry synchronized swimmers — over and over and over. And that butt wiggle in the fourth one. Over and over.

I agree with you that the story was out there. I do think the point is that she was one of the few people who would call it out, even if only through jokes like this. I'm not getting the impression, at all, that these articles (or the comments) are focusing on her having "discovered" this information on her own.

This entire thread — every single narwhal-related comment in this thread — is a total joy. Every single post is awesome (except maybe the ones by that really sad person who cannot recognize happiness or funniness and lives a very dark, sad, boring life), and I'm having this weird sensation of actively liking almost…

I like this post so much.

I am so torn right now. On the one hand, I am giddy with delight that you responded to me, because I adore your posts.

Although I obsess about many things (some good, some not), for some reason I have never given more than a moment of thought to narwhals. And now I'm so happy to have something new to be excited about (sort of the way I love elephants, and LeVar Burton, and that cat who attacked the dog that attacked the boy, and…

EDITED: I posted this as a response to you, and then I didn't see it pop up. So I thought I had messed up, and tried posting it again (this time as a response to Adultosaur). And now it's here twice, and I'm embarrassed.