I am making all kinds of horrified, disbelieving faces at the idea that a nail polish could do that. Like, it doesn’t seem physically possible that something you paint on top of your nails could lift them off the bed like that.

I scrub my toenails with a nail whitening paste from Sally Hansen; there are lots of products on the market like it. I’ve also heard of people using alka-seltzer or various home remedies involving hydrogen peroxide and baking soda.

Enthusiastic, affirmative consent. Yes means yes!

Not to hijack the thread with this tangent, but I can’t stand how law enforcement uses racial descriptors as nouns referring to people. A cop on the stand will refer to someone as “a male black” and I just cringe so hard. I would much prefer “a black (fe)male” if you gotta be clinical about it like that.

But they want the respect that comes with a degree from Duke, vs. Bob Jones University! (Never mind the reason most of us respect a degree from Duke more than a degree from a religious institution that doesn’t require its students to think critically* ...)

Sounds like these kids’ parents need to endow a safe space.

Yeah, the morality angle definitely tends to encourage people to imagine worst-case scenarios. I’m just saying those scenarios may not be totally imaginary.

That’s true, but using your government email, computer, etc. to engage in your secret activities makes it a little more likely that someone will discover your secret and use it against you in a professional capacity. Someone being investigated by my department is less likely to find out about my debt/affair/whatever…

I’m not sure the issue is limited to people who have access to “top secret” information. Almost anyone who works in government has some ability to exert undue influence, divert public resources, etc. and could therefore be subject to blackmail. I’m a very minor cog in the machine, but even I have the power to make an…

Not all email; there are many exceptions to FOIA and the state law equivalents where there is a legitimate government interest in maintaining privacy. But your general point stands. I’m a government lawyer and I’m very careful to put CONFIDENTIAL ATTORNEY WORK PRODUCT in the subject lines of all sensitive emails and…

Once, in my own time as a musical theater kid, a choreographer taught me how to “spot,” or keep my balance while pirouetting: to find a place to focus on and keep my eyes there, no matter how quickly I turned. At the end of a series of spins, you will always end up at the place you have been spotting. This is what…

Exactly! Those shorts! Those motherfucking shorts! Caitlyn was not wearing shorts!

I actually kind of love this idea. I know some couples who look disturbingly alike and could pull this off really well.

The thing that bothers me is that it’s so clearly meant to be a costume for cishet men to wear to poke fun at transwomen in general. Notice how, even though they claim it’s “unisex,” they use men’s sizing. Also notice the shorts. Also notice how it’s shown on a guy, wearing no makeup, legs unshaved (he could have at…

Also, you notice how this one comes with shorts, instead of the women’s swimsuit-style (don’t know the proper term for it) bottom that Caitlyn wore? Now, have you EVER seen them add one extraneous inch of fabric to a costume for women? Shit, they turn things that aren’t supposed to be swimsuits into swimsuits:

I have a sneaking suspicion they’re both very upset about how all the women in their lives fail to see how nice they are and keep dating assholes instead. Those cunts.

Cite, please, that men get their scripts for buddy comedies rejected by reviewers who recommend changing it to porn with an aside objectifying their male characters. Because otherwise, you’re just saying that men get their scripts rejected...and women don’t? See this post, by someone I’m guessing knows a lot more…

Good for her. This is the kind of situation where, in order to call out sexism, you need to make yourself a bit vulnerable (if you’ve never had your writing critiqued in this fashion, you’re probably underestimating how it feels.) It takes guts to say, “hey, I know my work isn’t Shakespeare, but it’s not garbage, and…

I actually think he doesn’t hate his wife. He sounds rather indifferent to her, which, to me, is kind of worse? At least when you hate someone, you’re feeling something?

Wait, aren’t second-graders usually 7-8 years old? If his affair was three years ago, that would make his kid 4-5 when it happened, which is not quite a toddler anymore. Not that that makes it OK or anything...