That would be telling. Let’s just say I had my graduate degree, was on my third career and had bought a house.

Heh. But seriously, by 1996 Susan Brownmiller and Andrea Dworkin and Michael Parenti had been discussing rape culture — and taking a lot of very public shit for it — for 20 years. Date rape and marital rape were commonly understood concepts. We had seen “She’s Gotta Have It” and “The Color Purple” and “Olenna” and the…

And Oh My God culture has not shifted THAT much on rape since 1996. We are not talking 1896 here.

In fairness to the snarkers, that is a heinous error, on par with calling Manhattan “the Island.”

Excepppppt... “Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres” is, in fact, a proverb. She did goof: It’s Spanish (Cervantes), not Mexican. But I would argue it’s evidence she’s got at least one fluent Spanish-speaker on staff.

Also ungreyed! Woot! Go us!

I am contrite. I should never have put Adam Levine with Ryan Lochte in the “do-able douche” category.

Ooh, I know, I know! (Waves hand a la Hermione.)

Just saw a post on Twitter this morning pointing out that in “secular” France the government pays teachers’ salaries at most Catholic schools and lets children take time off during the week for Catholic religious instruction.

Believe it or not, most cities have nuisance ordinances that won’t let you keep your property looking like a salvage yard. If you want to store car parts on your lawn, you need to move out to the countryside, where keeping visible junk until you have a full truckload to go to the dump is culturally accepted.

Ooh, damn. Pinche cancer!

Pretty sure it’s not, actually! (Especially now that I’m halfway through Obelisk Gate.) But yes, MOSTLY (spoiler).

Well, I’m not sleeping tonight.

Nobody really knows the details of Semanya’s medical situation. There have been rumors, but other than her being intersex, nothing has been confirmed that I can find.

She does go inside more, but she didn’t have the reach advantage on Fontijn.

We watched this, and then we watched Ali v. Liston 1. When she taunts her opponent by dropping her hands, then takes the opening when her opponent commits herself, that’s Ali.

Definitely a B movie, but awesome if taken on that level. The final scene will stick with you.

OMFG yes! “Bored now; I’m just going to throw some stuff in here and move on to the next book.”

Except they were humans as perceived and created by a very alien race. The fact that they got “person” status while the ships and ancillaries didn’t said something about how power plays into that definition.

I can’t tell you where Seveneves should stand with regards to Fifth Season because I am fucking done with slogging through Neal Stephenson books that fall completely to shit in the final chapters. Fifth Season was great, though.