Romans would walk the streets naked in December? Wow, they were tough bastards.

There is no such thing as Christian Christmas. Christian Christmas is a fabrication to replace the ancient Roman holiday of Saturnalia, the viking holiday of Yule, and every other pagan holiday associated with the Winter Solstice. What did you do at such festivities? Feast, drink, dance, bone. On Saturnalia, you would…

Are you fucking kidding with this garbage Tom Cruise take? Look, the guy is a fucking corny weirdo, but considering how many rich ASSHOLES we’ve seen just pretending COVID is not a thing so that their precious little lives don’t get the least bit interrupted, it’s fucking REFRESHING to see a celeb take it seriously.…

Most religions claim moral superiority, which breeds into cultural superiority. I’ve lived in India and the Middle East - it’s not much different in Hinduism or Islam. Americans just tend to have never experienced majority-other religion cultures. Last week the religious directorate ministry in my country proclaimed…

Also, Hollywood pays taxes.

Movie producers also don’t influence local, state, and federal laws based on what their studio believes.

As someone British who has *actually* seen the episode, it didn’t sound like a mistake at all, it sounded like a joke. I assumed her tongue was firmly in cheek because using a microwave is extremely off brand for her! (It reminded me of people who feel self-conscious about shopping in Primark calling it Primarni in a…

Agree with your points 1 & 2 in their entirety and I don’t see how anything I said conflicts with your response in any way, but more than willing to accept that my original comment wasn’t as detailed and therefore more open to other interpretations.

“But personal responsibility can only collectively take us so far.”

Sorry I misread what you said, I thought you were wondering why I was bringing up his fraudulentness now.

My mother insists everything I buy for her (for Christmas) is bought at the thrift store.

“Barret joins a rather large group of them who find it appropriate to fudge convenient details to support their larger goal”

Er, yeah, England’s a Celtic nation as well.  Just thought I’d throw that wee nugget of fact into your cosy wee image of Tam O’Shanters and Outlander fan-fiction.

“But like most women who are pushed out of STEM fields of work or simply never encouraged to enter them at all, Dr. Gilbert almost quit before she earned her doctorate from the University of Hull.”

It’s disheartening, maybe, that the internet simply moves too fast for something like a celebrity chef kerfuffle to make a meaningful impact on the public perception of a celebrity.

The linked story says absolutely nothing about her being pushed out of STEM or not being encouraged to enter, so it’s a bit weird that this post talks about her plan to quit science in those terms. I mean, you go on to mention the actual reason she almost quit, which is that she didn’t like having to focus minutely on…

Asking you to provide a list of things that would make good gifts for you and your husband is asking you to do the emotional labor of caring and being interested that your in-laws could, and don’t, do.

In a bizarre and deeply disturbing turn of events,

Well, at least these stupidly bad people are killing each other now...

Not the point, but the wording of “Women Doctors Make Less Than Male Doctors” sounds odd. It’s OK to use “female” in spots where you would use “male”. Yet, the three comments so far all use woman doctor / male doctor, so this seems to be a thing.