One way or the other it's bad English. If I wanted to correct that sentence the way I read it, I would write it: Don't be overly self-confident IN your first impression OF others. If I wanted it to say the other thing, I'd really go to town on the whole sentence. But maybe I am just being overly confident in my first…

But it's just saying not to be too reliant on snap judgements. Isn't that fine? The cookie didn't know it was going to end up in a lady's hands - it wasn't trying to cut women, or anyone, off at the knees, as the writer seems to be suggesting.

I was shopping for my nephew recently, and ended up in a convo with a store employee who ended up asking "age?" followed by "boy or girl?" I decided to let him have his gender norms that day, since I wasn't really interested in being pitched to anyway, but my first thought was wanting to ask him "why would that…

I missed the original cartoon characters we'd like to boink post... catching up now, and feeling really good about it! Just the other night I hypothesized that the Robin Hood cartoon is probably the reason furries exist, and everyone around was like "Yeah, so hot."

Quick, somebody deliver this message to the "No Mediocre" and "Slob on My Knob" boys too.

I thought the same thing. In this case because "we" "like" Just Mayo, we're apparently more interested in throwing the hypocrisy of Hellman's back in their faces than in examining whether we attach any value to labels and standards. We wouldn't want to buy soap that didn't meet the soap standard, or chocolate that…

When I first saw an Azealia Banks "1991" video on the TV (the old fashioned way) I thought for sure she would be the next huge thing, on account of combining all that talent and sex appeal and youth. I watched that interview posted the other day though, and she is pretty glib about her record label sinking $2 mil…

Since the man paying is a leftover from the days of women not really having the good jobs and not being able to afford the date, it's probably a tradition best done away with, lest it be mistaken for the other classic interpretation - the man is paying for the sexual access. Today's women should probably pay 70 cents…

Feels like you're trying to get in some college talk about women "controlling the narrative," but it's hardly an interesting twist on anything - other than the vaguely subversive imagery of dudes getting beat up, which is more like prison torture than BDSM, which is a consensual thing and usually a commerce thing.…

is that what the kids call a 'humblebrag'?

Glad you shared, since the full pain of medical mysteries can only be understood by those who have experienced them, and vaginal medical mysteries come with the extra burden of ruining your sex life and ability to have romantic relationships. But I strongly disagree with your suggestion that all or most doctors are…

Within five minutes of meeting my brother's latest girlfriend, they were warning me that they might not be able to come out for a felafel and a show (of my band that my brother has never been to see : ( ) because they might not be eating (or standing?) that night because they are going to be doing this great thing…

Will Jezebel demand the unretouched photos?

She's saying it pretty poorly by insisting on making a distinction between gay men and faggots (which sounds an awful goddamn lot like making a distinction between black people and N words). But if I'm going to hear what I want to hear because it matches what I think, I'm going to say I'm sympathetic to the idea that…

in this instance, it's also the pavlovian response to the name piers morgan. The headline states that he indicated that Shia's story "demeans women" (in quotes) but the actual quotes from Piers say "demeans real rape victims." It may be very much "between the lines" that Piers doesn't think very much of women being…

Did you read the next paragraph where he said exactly that? That neither the robbery, nor the alleged cop disobeying warrant death?

Is there any point in noting that "don't whore yourself" was supposed to be "advice to a young woman trying to break into show business" and not "advice for Ariana Grande." We've been talking all day about these women that Bill Cosby raped who were scared and silent and submitted to repeated encounters because they…

Bette had a very sexy show back in her day, but she was brazen and weird and sweaty. I think her point is that the Ariana Grande sex kitten show is cliche and boring and silly and heteronormative and bland and lacking in originality, which it is. Not that sexuality doesn't have a place in performance. Or maybe that…

I don't know, a lot of moderately famous people are less butthurt about genre and selling out than totally unfamous people are. When you have all the indie cred in the world (like Carrie Brownstein), you don't need to worry too hard about maintaining your indie cred... You might back a popstar on a big show because…

And also context counts. The imagery makes sense and demonstrates a sense of humor on the part of the creators for a song whose message is "you are a gear," which is of course actually a horrible message, but you are rocking so hard and loving the powerful images so much you DONT EVEN NOTICE THAT YOU ARE A GEAR MAN.…