I was a maid in a wedding that I found out was posted to Style Me Pretty. The bride was lovely, us maids were lovely! The pictures on the website don't really reflect that. They were handpicked by the bride and the photographer (who is being paid to focus on lovely shots of the couple) to always feature a stunning…

I was using it to give an example of how I think some men view us as self-propelled scenery. Like just by existing it invites them to play Hot or Not. I was seething because I would be spending the rest of the night with these bozos, and after hearing that exchange, I knew I was in for a long night being watched and…

Those people who said that are gross. Rape is sexualized violence. Why did they forget about the violence part!?

I am also conventionally attractive, but the only thing street harassment has taught me is that men are going to paint you according to the narrative in their own heads which is totally independent from what I look like on any given day. We're not seen as people to them, just self-propelled scenery. (The ones who…

I would love to know the rationale behind why HBO made this change, because I think it speaks to the author's wider point on how sexual violence has become so normalized in media.

The scene in the book was hard to read because Daenerys was so young, and Viserys and Illyrio had just sold her to a vicious savage and I…

I'll throw in my 2 bits as a long time Harvard participant observer. I've lived adjacent to the campus for over a decade, know lots of people of all different ages who attend or have graduated or teach, and worked at different levels in Harvard admin including the Law and Business schools.

Harvard is still extremely…

When I watch the video I can only keep thinking about how bad I'd eat it if I tried any of those moves... without skates.

Ask and you shall receive

Day 1 Jez reporting in here: I feel like they are trying to recapture the lighting in the bottle that was the Faith Hill feature, but instead have only succeeded in diluting the issues raised by the original.

MoGlo, this article is fantastic! Thank you for taking the time to lay out the issues and explain things like "grooming" in the article. I feel that sometimes even well intentioned articles (especially anything to do with sex) encourage skimming by touching on the most sensationalist stuff and then leaving it up to…

Oh yes, I remember that. PvP gear was so good for awhile we had to force our members to run BGs and (ugh) the Arena, because the best-in-slot item for pre-raid gear came from points or tokens. Before Blizz allowed easy spec switching, us healbots were just sent to the slaughter in PvP with a half-ass stam set…

Vanilla raiding was actually extremely HARD, and I LOVED it. Guilds were massive because you had to actually be able to get 40 players to go to MC, and it was like herding cats. Before summoning stones, gear scores, dungeon finder, or Horde getting Pallies, there was a good chance your raid would fail, but that was…

Day 1 Jezzie feeling super validated for always having loved Deadspin

Bas is the best!!

I'm fairly petite but my man is not. He is over 6ft., and his job has him lifting things all day so he's not small, starting with his super broad shoulders. To be courteous of the passengers sitting on the other side of him, I end up having about half his considerable frame shoved over into my seat. Which sucks so…

This article from The Guardian has a good summary of the book: http://www.webcitation.org/66Wl65MSi

Yes, and they did double duty as "grass" in my shoebox dioramas for school. LOL

I grew up in a large Japanese neighborhood and soy sauce with take-out sushi came in these little squirty fish. Packets of soy sauce are sad and slippery and don't provide the kind of accuracy these guys do.

I have a song for my parrot:

Yesssssss, hunty!! Can't wait for your recaps, Dodai.