This IS civility. In a civilized country - we don’t tolerate this neo nazi wannabe bullshit. In a civilized country, we are all equal - and trying to remove or erase that equality with racism is a punishable offense, and needs to be taken care of immediately. Granted, the entire restaurant should have dragged his ass…

What are they toddlers that I should have made them feel better about the ordeal of walking thirty feet to ask me a question?

Nothing’s “wrong” there; respecting authority isn’t virtuous. Apply some critical thinking. Children are taught that submission to authority is proper behavior, because they’re dumb but we don’t want them to die. It’s important that they listen to someone who knows something. Once you’re grown, respecting authority is…

“Does anybody here have any strong biases against being drugged and raped? Raise your hands. Do you think you could put that bias aside, and judge Mr Cosby’s drugging and raping with an impartial eye?”

It’s good to have a minimal standard. “Seeing a butthole” should be a line all Americans refuse to cross.

The dumb Brexit Brits now have to pull protocol through knotholes to trick Trump into not realizing he’s not allowed to address Parliament and everybody not named May or Farage hates his guts.

More likely a launch from the floor by an accutely aware 19 pound mommy’s boy with “I think I’m a rottweiler sometimes” issues. Mainly a sweet, tubby purring bucket of fuzz.

As feminists, we are very ON IT — rightly and productively — when it comes to calling out the warping effect, and even damaging effect, that images of women can have on us all. Calling out photo-shopping, for example. But when it comes to images of women in porn, the desire to be sex-positive and avoid anything that…

Some stores I responded to back in my patrol days would pull this. I doubt loss prevention liked it very much when I showed up because I'd loudly announce to the suspect that just because the police are here, they didn't need to sign anything and shouldn't construe my presence as some sort of implication that they…

It’s depressing to see people doggedly defending Depp everywhere online but no one should be surprised. The reaction to the much, much more violent pictures of Rihanna amongst Chris Brown’s fans was similar. I think a lot of people cling to their initial assessment of someone because the idea that they made a gross…

“...I’m a hot little blonde...” REALLY? Oh honey.
You’re more catalog than runway and that’s the kindest I can bring myself to be.

Her husband was.

She was in Deadpool?

This is some next level shade throwing and you are pretty fucking basic for not picking up on it.

If there is a hell, I hope that for these people it is being in a small, cement room with one wall a giant window. The room is empty, no toys, no food, no stimulation of any kind. Once or twice a day a crowd gathers by the window and they’re forced to do tricks to earn some McDonalds chicken nuggets. That is their…

Thank you. Yes, I’ll just wait here while every other famous female singer trots out their secret female producers so that we can all see what a shitty person Taylor Swift is because it’s Taylor Swifts fault the music scene is a sausage fest. Give me a break. I am by no means a fan but come the fuck on. She stands up…

I saw another comment calling her self-absorbed and petty for subtly calling out Kanye when everyone obviously knew he was wrong, saying it’s childish to reiterate what everyone knows. And I was like ‘done with the Internet today’.

For anyone interested in hearing more about the practice of ‘whacking’ (i.e. poking holes in victim’s accounts by trying to trip them up on peripheral details of the event) there’s an excellent segment/podcast done by CBC’s The Current which takes a look at it, including a talk with a neurobiologist who talks about…

There used to be a time when it was widely understood and accepted that being a police officer meant carrying personal safety risks, like other dangerous jobs. Now, however, we seem to have turned this tide that says any and all risk to an officer is unacceptable. Hence, the “shoot first” strategy that persists and…

I read Anne Perry way before I found out about Heavenly Creatures and the real life murder, and it messed me up, too! I was like, “HOLY SHIT SHE ACTUALLY KNOWS HOW IT FEELS LIKE TO MURDER A PERSON!”. Beyond creepy.