They were saying “she’s not the type of person who would just run away”, but when it comes to young people, grades are still used as a stand in for character in a way that would make no sense if we stopped and thought about it.

Yep. He was pretending to be a cop complete with fake badge before it was common knowledge among the general public that people would do that. He was a serial killer when they were just emerging as a well known phenomenon. LaRonche somehow knew instinctively not to allow the transition to a secluded area to happen,…

He wasn’t attractive at all! Not that being attractive excuses his behavior, but how are all these women finding him charming and attractive?

What gets me is then, as now, an incredibly average man was given absolute boatloads of privilege and wiggle room simply because he was—average. He didn’t have to be outstandingly smart or handsome or charming, just not a foaming at the mouth psychotic-break guy howling at the moon, which is what everybody expected of…

Thank you. I have a work colleague who’s obsessed with how absolutely fascinating Bundy is...

“Plenty of women found him unsettling, and the ones who attended his trial still often saw him a monster”

Once again, by the sole virtue of being a white male, the victim in a crime is, against all logic, completely redefined. Glad to see we’ve come so far from the 90s. Oh, wait.

I watched this over the weekend and was rather surprised by the obsession with how charming he was. He wasn’t meeting these women in bars and inviting them back to his place after hours of drunken flirtation. He was literally pretending to be injured and asking for their help carrying stuff to his car or whatever,…

The original title of the article was ether going to be “Well Actually, That Popular Thing Is Bad” or “I’m Better Than You: Why You Should Be Ashamed Of Yourself”

That kimono style robe is complicit in the destruction of Nanjing.

WHO MADE THAT BATHROBE?!?!  /s

You can’t just pick and choose which fantasy you think people are embracing to tag them with the worst one. What if it *is* about taking back one’s body and appearance — “you can’t see my body if I don’t want you to” — and not “let’s kill all the Natives”?

I am all in on dressing for yoruself and rejecting sexualized clothing (if that’s what’s desired), but ruffles are an abomination, even before considering all the racism.

My sister and wife were going to get prairie dresses, but they died of cholera.

They’re dressing like their own great-great-grandmothers, in a claim, conscious or not, to a racialized and gendered history.

But... this is what Kondo says! If they all spark joy to you, keep them! 

If you read something as anodyne as “men should be able to express their feelings” as a personal attack, then you’re part of the problem. 

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s essay will simply read YOU HURT MY JENNY, BENNETT! I CRUSH YOU!