Quite true. I recall how everyone thought “iron my shirt” was funny during the primaries back in 2008, but “shine my shoes” would not have been acceptable. Sexism is funny, or so I am told.

Just like how women always carry the burden of fixing sexism and the patriarchy. We never seem to learn as a society - at least, not fast enough.

Quite true, but there’s also the consideration that a lot of women, especially female students, are not comfortable going to the male administrators with these issues. Every time the issue comes up in a case I am working on, I mention how wonderful my male colleagues are at handling Title IX situations, but a lot of…

Ha! Well said.

It’s a dude at my campus too, as well as all the other main contacts for Title IX. Some have been pushing for a woman to take over but so far that’s been ignored.

You just made my day! Even though you said this weeks ago. <3

I am so happy and relieved to see a post such as yours at the top of the comments.

...nothing to see here...

NO! Oh, this makes me so, so sad. You and Laura were my all-time favorites. I still miss her and now I will miss you, even though you will be somewhere else and I will read your work there. Happy New Year and good luck with your retina and at UPROXX and ugh I am so sad. You are awesome and a treasure and all the…

They had surrogates in order to have kids, so that can’t be accurate. The rest though... if true, that’s so sad.

That is exactly why I went to McDonald’s once in Italy. I don’t even think I finished my meal (and I don’t even eat it at home!), but I was homesick and it did the trick well enough.

A white friend of mine (and her South Asian husband) adopted two adorable black boys several years ago. I remember her talking about how so many people stopped her to say how cute they were when they were babies, and she wondered how many of those people would go on to be afraid of the boys when they grew up to be…

That makes sense to me as well. A close family friend was involved in a similar accident - with some degree of recklessness involved, I believe - when we were all teenagers. His license was suspended for a year or two, I think, and there may have been other consequences that I am not recalling after 15-20 years (no…

Have you seen the video for “Photograph”? It’s all home video clips of him growing up. While I liked him mildly before, I love him now for his sweet nerdy harmlessness, and talent.

OMG thank you for this. I’m dying. May even be dead already.

Theoretically you would be correct, but would they really investigate it beyond finding out that the tip was from an ex in the midst of divorce proceedings? And if they did, and revoked his visa, then wasn’t she onto something credible? I’m dying to know more details, personally. Even though I could not care less…

Agreed. And it’s pretty obnoxious how everyone was all “oh we didn’t know!” Really? You exchanged thousands of emails with her for several years and had no idea it wasn’t a government email address? Really? No one cared for years but NOW it’s a problem? Really?

Whatever the intention may have been, it doesn’t come across like he’s joking or like everyone is in on it. Perhaps that’s just poor execution, but if she’s promoting an album, maybe he should write about it instead of writing about how her cheekbones are like cherries (which is just creepy and weird tbh).

Probably, so she could commit full time to butter.

I love everything about this. You are my favorite writer on the internet; never change.