I mean it’s just all kinds of factually wrong. There are 3 women representing Texas in congress right now, and Ted Cruz is sitting the seat vacated by a retiring Kay Bailey Hutchinson.

she would be the first out woman to represent Texas in Congress

I see what you’re saying but if you just delete a man’s name completely from his work - especially good, complicated work like this - eventually the context will fade? And I imagine if you got excited about a movie description and then found out later it was directed by Roman Polanski, it would be frustrating and…

“ But you can’t pretend like he wasn’t involved with the movie”

I haven’t seen the last 2 seasons of Wentworth, but I think it is a very good show. I took a break from it because, like LooseSeals said, it’s much darker, and more violent. I made the mistake of binge watching 2 seasons, and it was emotionally exhausting. I think it is worth watching, but maybe only watch a few…

They’re still filming the last season at the moment. For anyone interested in the NYC area they put out notices for background acting work pretty regularly.

That’s so interesting! I heard a podcast episode of 99% Invisible a couple weeks ago that covered Sears kit homes and how the store also used to give out mortgages for customers to buy the land to put the house on. During the depression, they had to foreclose on a lot of homes and lost customers who never forgave…

Shout out to Caitlin Doughty of Ask A Mortician who actually made a chocolate cake with fake cremated remains (fauxmains, if you will) to test if it would be a good idea. The cake looked okay, but she said it didn't taste very good and you could tell they were made with fauxmains.

I always say this is part of the reason Uber got so big. For years, blacks, men especially, have had hard times flagging down taxis. They either blatantly pass you buy or act like they don’t want to drive to your neighborhood. And Uber comes along, the transaction is nearly seamless, so for me personally, I’ve never…

What a good article. I didn’t know a lot of that history.

“Doing the forbidden is bad (especially if you are a woman)” is a pretty common aesop in tales going back to before written history. Pandora, Eve, Psyche, Soatsaki...

I feel like I’ve read Bluebeard-style stories in different cultural contexts. Like there was an African one where a poor man is elevated to comfort and wealth, but when curiosity gets the best of him he opens the secret room and sees his old clothes on the floor - and then is banished from the house back to his old,…

I have nursed my first three kids to right at 2.5 years. Currently still nursing my 19mo old. Part of it is this irrational fear of shorting a kid for doing it longer or shorter than the others. One less mom guilt thing to worry about if one has some mysterious illness later in life? I started out thinking…

I mean, couldn’t you ask this about a lot of things parents do for toddlers? Do you ask you friends’ kids if they think their parents are going to read them bedtime stories or tuck them in at night when they’re in space? When their mom cuts up a melon with a big sharp knife, do you ask them if they’re going to have to…

Yeah, all the entitled four year olds these days really don’t think about the long term enough.

Though Trump would likely condemn this robocall and maybe even the neo-Nazis behind it, the ideology isn’t that far from the President’s ...

The shallowness of Trump’s performative empathy is amply demonstrated by his radio silence on the slaying of Celia Barquin Arozamena. She was also a vibrant, outgoing young woman, a recent college graduate and outstanding golfer at Iowa State killed in a crime of opportunity by a complete stranger. This also happened…

What is wrong with people who’s first instinct is to think “What colour was the attacker?! Were his papers in order?”

The fact that you read this as an attack on white women rather than on the men who use them as political pawns when they die tragically is pretty telling.

Honestly, the explanation she gave last night is pretty much exactly what I always assumed the truth to be: that she was entirely preoccupied with making a big show of looking down her nose and sneering derisively at the media, letting everyone know how ~above it all~ she is, because she is the First Lady of…