I take issue with your final point. Luna would probably be awesome in bed, but Ron?1!/? Mmmmmnnno. He'd make jokes about the Chudley Cannons and you'd end up having to smother him with the pillowcase. Watching the stars grow up has partly been an exercise in looking at adult "Hermione" and adult "Ron" and thinking, she…

This answer is 1000% correct in all particulars. You are sure to be a more powerful witch than Lockheart, even if you are merely a witch of average capacities, so you can just put him on "mute" and create a glamour of yourself nodding along and asking relevant questions, and then at the end of the day a slender piece…

I can't believe you don't think she's all about silently lurking at sites where women of color who are feminists—and the many who will never identify as feminist because of this bullshit right here—discuss these issues, so she can listen and learn, and wait for a while before she contributes anything. That's really…

Righteous smackdown. +1, would watch someone get smacked down again.

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THAT'S what the botox is for!

Don't insult my family in South Carolina, girl.

SHE'S TOTES RIGHT!!

I hear you, I was a grad student in Classics and Ancient Phil. who had to hear a bunch of bullshit. My husband is a Philosophy prof now, though I'm not (I have a business selling vintage, rehabbed and industrial furniture. You know, just like intensive years of studying Greek and Latin and Indo-European Linguistics…

My brother actually had both of our grandmothers die in one semester of Law School at Penn. His prof made an announcement in front of the whole class (of 500) about how he wasn't hearing any more of this ridiculous bullshit and that one student had tried the same thing twice in one term. My brother had to go to him in…

I sometimes say "where do your parents live? Is that where you went to high school?' or, since I'm overseas, "where in the States are you from?" to people with American accents. Because you don't want people to take it the wrong way if they've been asked 10 billion times what kind of Asian they are.

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I think some men act like decent human beings who speak up when other people throw racist and sexist shit around in games because they were raised in modern society to know right from wrong and not to be sexist, racist assholes. If you choose for some bizarre reason to call that "White Knighting" rather than "not…

Strenuous and dangerous only up to a point. The most obvious analogues to homo sapiens in the EEA we have are !Kung tribespeople in Southern Africa, some indigenous people in Borneo and various indigenous tribes in the Amazon jungle in Brazil. The activities/varying amounts of time spent on them are quite similar.…

You don't necessarily have to be the only one who deals with the kid all day every day, because you will probably have a partner with whom you can share the job? It is tiring and frustrating at times but it is also amazing and wonderful and probably the thing in your life that you will feel proudest of.

I think it's worth trying. You wouldn't hesitate to say, "mom, hand him the phone so I can tell him I love him!" on the grounds that that would freak him out, right? Though a parent in 1930 might, because hearing mommy's voice without being able to be with mommy would be so awful? Kids are kids, with no baseline, so I…

It's clear from your handle that you're a "buck up!" sort of person, but nonetheless it must be really hard being the solo parent when your husband/partner is deployed (I assume you're married for the benefits, since most people do, but, in any case). And very scary, possibly, depending on what he is doing! Please…

If there were ever any situation to which comparison with the Environment of Early Adaptation for Homo Sapiens in East Africa, and the possible group dynamics that may have been in play there, about which we know...unsurprisingly?...very little, aside from what we can extrapolate by looking at our most closely-related…

Motherfucking thank you.

Family diamonds at the rehearsal dinner, Jesus. Yes, that's just the kind of thing that makes me give people the side-eye. Why'd you have to do that in front of everybody? Wouldn't it have been more meaningful and thoughtful to do it together, just the two of you somewhere that you like to walk to, or a favorite…