As one who knows a fair number of Israelis, I don’t think the military service has much to do with it, so much as the fact that culturally, Sabras are not at all prone to putting up with bullshit. Which can be exhausting, but in a case like Gadot’s, I think it has probably served her very well and given her some tools…

A little late to reply because I wasn’t checking my notifications (too busy watching the world burn!), but I’m sorry you had to go through something similar. It’s awful- and I have been lucky to have good doctors since my father passed away, but I don’t take anything for granted anymore. I always go in armed with as…

This. My father was in the hospital for lung cancer treatment when I was in high school, and most of the medical staff were absolute turds to my mother when she asked questions (or just tried to clarify something, like when he gave plausible ages for my brother and me during a neurological exam that weren’t actually…

We watched that movie in my sophomore English class (after finishing the book). The movie was garbage, but hilarious if you were a class full of high schoolers making fun of it with your teacher’s permission to go for it.

We read a pretty good mix of stuff in my high school classes- yes, there was Dickens, Shakespeare and The Scarlet Letter (which my Honors English teacher sweetened by showing us the Demi Moore film and giving us permission to mock it at will, which we all thought was pretty great), but we also read Native Son (which…

It is. I actually googled it, because I started to wonder if I was totally off base. It’s unfortunate, because it’s super distracting and makes an otherwise interesting article come off as sloppy and poorly-researched. I hope they go back and fix it.

Kind of strange that in spite of a bit of peripheral lip service paid in the beginning of this piece, a feminist website that ostensibly focuses on women has completely conflated masculinity with “men,” as though there isn’t a long, long history of masculine women, butches, et cetera, et cetera.

I am so glad I’m not the only one who thought this. I’m sure she could talk and not talk about soup forever!

Yeah, I had the same reaction- in fact, this exact discussion, word for word, just came up on an editors’ group I’m in. The consensus was that you cannot use the word “murder” absent a conviction. I absolutely understand why someone would find that upsetting, but it’s libel, and it undermines whatever else the author…

I mean, I’m NB, and it doesn’t bother me. And if it did, well, that’s a me problem, not a them problem. Frankly, if they’re not on T, it’s irrelevant how other people feel about it, NB or otherwise. NB identities are varied and complex, and there is no one-size-fits all approach to transition (whatever that may look…

This, exactly. The people handwringing over this make me really frustrated, because what they’re really saying is, “Right, NB people either need to stay closeted, or they can’t play high-level sports,” all of which are gendered, so far as I know. I suspect that many of these same people also considered DADT to be…

So... NB people shouldn’t be able to play professional sports at all, then? That’s what you’re saying here. Because they couldn’t play on a men’s team, either, since they’re, you know, not a man.

She’s a shanda for sure, although... am I the only one now wondering if the Jewish thing is even real? I guess if she suddenly starts writing all kinds of stuff about the Holocaust, we’ll know.

The only way that happens is failing the psyche evaluation.

Maangchi and Joshua Weissman are two of my absolute favorites.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. It’s also in super questionable taste, IMHO, to try and turn this into a colonial thing when the other citizenship in question is from Japan, a country with a long and brutal history of colonization throughout Asia and extremely restrictive laws regarding dual nationality (not…

Don’t forget this one, about young boys trying to become gymnastic champions.

Honestly, even if she doesn’t need it and has banked enough to live in luxury forever, inertia is a hell of a drug. I’m in the process of transitioning out of a job that no longer scratches the itch for me and has actually become a source of real stress and anxiety, and even with all of that, and knowing that I’m…

I caught some segment of her show recently and had the same impression. She just seems over it. I imagine it is draining, because she’s so known and so recognizable, but the solution is to take a step back and stop doing the show, not treat the people around you like shit because your own choices have made you…

I’d certainly like to believe that, but at the same time, that doesn’t mean that I want to see LePage trying to weasel his way back to relevance like a case of political herpes.