Neither of those phrases are actually in the book; I just searched the text on Amazon. In the book, Dunham references the time she bribed her sister into doing her makeup like a "motorcycle chick," but that's it.

"All the men have no problem showing up in business causal." I guarantee that your anecdotal experience is much more limited than you think — in conversation with fellow graduate students at programs around the country, we all agreed that female TAs overwhelmingly dress more formally than their male counterparts, or…

A) You are totally right about "A Muppet Family Christmas" being the best Christmas special ever.

A) You are totally right about "A Muppet Family Christmas" being the best Christmas special ever.

As a graduate student in a teaching role, I also know that students judge female instructors' attire much more harshly than male instructors. I've seen it reflected in evaluations: there's a lot more leeway for the "nutty professor" look if the professor is a man. I had to buy a whole new set of skirts and dresses…

Wait, are you telling me that Bey and Jay are also Team Rafa? God, I knew they had impeccable taste.

The vicious, vicious irony of a man writing a storyline awash with the most putrid flotsam of rape culture, and then going on to complain about violation of his "safe space."

As a palate cleanser/addition to the Jezebel book club that doesn't exist yet in real life but does exist in my dreams, may I suggest that everyone read Black Athena.

Well, it looks like your derail of what could have been an interesting discussion about fair wages has gone swimmingly. Good job!

fair enough!

no, i watched the entire game. they definitely weren't afraid to touch him.

he then went on to score two more times in open play in the second half. just to be fair.

he also scored that goal in his hometown of lisbon. the same stadium where he'd lost his first big chance for a trophy, the 2004 euros. it also capped off his record of most champions league goals in a single season, so there were a host of reasons why he'd want to celebrate. but sure. it was all for the cameras.

Yeah, I live in France, asshole. I'm well aware of the inquisitorial justice system as it actually operates, rather than how you've incorrectly characterized it. In the French system, the judges are impartial; they're not on the side of the accuser or the defendant. They're on the side of the truth — unlike in the…

...the fuck are France and Spain doing in there?

no one is defending misogyny committed under the guise of religion. this is just NOT THE PLACE for this conversation, on a post commemorating the life of a muslim woman who stood up against misogyny. your compulsive need to shoehorn it in where it doesn't belong is arrogant and not a good look.

this feels super tangential to the point of this post and conversation. having a debate about the humanist values of islam is not only a distraction from the story, but it's also disrespectful to albayrak, who was, again, muslim.

it's very convenient for you to overlook the fact that tugce albayrak was also muslim. or is that irrelevant?

the article already mentions that the attacker was serbian. why does his particular region matter?

i'm on vacation in venice right now - these things are everywhere, being used by tourists and sold illegally by vendors.