I’ll admit it does kind of make me want to start selling organic, raw, cruelty-free snake milk just to see if moon children like this would catch on.

I find it delightful that she eats all that ridiculous shit, yet her name is Bacon.

It was odd it was like she was explaining why you should like and respect her by using examples that would lead you to do the opposite.

Yes one of my friends was reading the book and said she stopped looking up to her because of one line. It read something like “everyone I work with has to know they are each others competition, all alphas, but I’m the top alpha” she said that it seemed like Sophia was a real life mean girl.

I come here only to say I was once a female graduate student at the University of Chicago, and it was the hardest thing I've ever done, and I was in the arts. Ugh to this.

I’m surprised too, but, as someone who works in the same field (and has had the misfortune of meeting this jackass a couple of times), this was a LONG time coming. The fact that he was into drunk young women was not exactly a secret when he was at UNC, let alone by the time he got to Princeton. I was shocked that…

I want someone to study the ethical compromises grad students make to finish their degrees. SO many grad students put up with sexism/racism/generic harassment to just bull through and get the degree, but no one ever talks about it.

Heathcliff Huxtable is more like it.

Our brains respond to threats differently. When it's someone else being harmed, the trauma is secondary, and easier to work through with the distance. When it's us, personally, it's a lot harder to get out of the fight/flight/freeze response.

Thanks. :)

I was one of these women. I talked to Beth and Judy last night. It was fairly recent. I was hard to talk about.

I just finished reading that very long, very embellishment-full article. I now have a vision of Sean Penn holding his dick and farting, and that’s not how I wanted to start my fucking Sunday.

Sean Penn really takes his white celebrity privilege to boldly troll where no white man has trolled before.

Yeah, it sounds like he was playing you and the other girl off each other. That’s huge red flag behavior. Do you remember the Texas Cadet Murder back in the 90s? The guy told the girl he had cheated on her and she decided that they should kill the girl he cheated with to atone for it. During his trial he admitted that…

Well, I did end up dumping him on a street corner about an hour's bus ride from his house, so... 😊

One of the biggest misconceptions is that the smartest, most accomplished, and most beautiful women get the best men. Often those women have the shittiest self esteem and wind up with awful, abusive men and then the cycle of poor self worth/choosing bad partners never ends.

For reals. I just watched Amy Schumer’s HBO special and was so deeply disappointed by it. The entire set, every single joke, is at her own expense and it’s really unpleasant. At first it’s that same ol’ self-deprecating Amy and you chuckle along because we know her, we know this is her schtick. But as 20, 30, 40…

“The experience is certainly not monolithic, but for many women who write and perform comedy, choosing this career path involves the cultivation of a chitinous exoskeleton, involuntary or not. It’s hard not to let it extend to your personal life. At work or onstage, you respond to trauma with a stupid joke.”

I have a no weight comments rule as well and also try to avoid appearance-based small talk, though once in a while someone in my life will be wearing something extraordinary (usually shoes, a color that just makes them glow, or a great scarf or piece of jewelry) and I’ll comment on it. I also never make negative…

I’ve had some guys in my life where I could literally see the path to abuse starting when they made a “joke” that put me down in some way. I dropped them like a hot potato.