In my 30s now and not aware til this moment of Kool Aid’s racial connotations. I was aware of some specific soda stereotypes, but Kool Aid to me is just those ridiculous commercials from my childhood... it appeared to be the thing that normal families were probably drinking from my perspective anyway.

Wow, your comment, the most original and insightful on the post, is basically the only one in grey. The seashells!

Shitting on Crossfit via concern trolling is totally a thing. Also Bikram yoga (something I used to do).

Does everyone who is unnecessarily arrested deserve 15 million? I’m sure that when my brother got hauled in for cussing (and had to be picked up from teh police by me) as a 13 yr old he probably had his perspective on the cops set for life at that point. But after the charges got dropped, it didn’t occur to us to go…

Well, the award isn’t intended to teach them a lesson. It’s intended to make the injured party whole again. The kid’s fine. In fact, the whole ordeal was probably a win after the white house trip and the offers of scholarships, etc. When you are on a jury making an award, it’s not about punishment. It’s about…

But who gets punished? All the kids in the community whose education that money is supposed to be for? If I were on the jury I’d award them something extremely modest, maybe a couple grand.

I don’t think it’s THE answer, period, but I think that a lot of the looking being looked at “the problem” is looking at it the wrong way. Like people shouldn’t challenge themselves to enjoy casual sex more. If you don’t enjoy it - that’s probably your self-preserving instincts kicking in, and those are good…

Lately: too many posts about how woman can manage their casual hookups better (why aren’t they enjoying them more, how to make an efficient exit, etc.). Maybe some day we’ll have a discussion about just not having so much casual sex, on account of it’s usually not very enjoyable, there’s all that awkwardness around…

Anyone involved in show business and the associated lifestyle pretending to be surprised by risky behavior or sexually transmitted consequences is being a willfully obtuse hypocrite. As soon as this story got previewed I was wishing we could skip the disgusting media reaction. But here it is.

In the US, the current wisdom is “always on back.” The hilarious (to me because I don’t have a kid) side effect is babies’ skulls growing flat. Then they have them wear a helmet for a year to correct head shape. Something about this solution seems unnatural.

like speaking of gender non-conformity or identifying “as” a gender gives gender more power than gender deserves? (is how i feel anyway)

I have been very frustrated by the evolution of the language around these topics on the past couple years... and it’s weird, because I’m a very “gender nonconforming” person and I’ve been completely accepting of the fact that there are people who are GLBTQFPWTF for basically my whole life. But the way I feel about the…

Good read! Reminded me of some of my past job experiences, and it was fun revisiting that Emily Gould piece - the original Lena Dunham! The sort of soft sexism and young females as sacrificial virgins is such a thing! I used to work at a newspaper, and on the one hand, I was nothing special probably anyway, so it’s…

It’s true. Like when I’m at a bar and I need a pee and I ask a friend to babysit my drink, my word choice would not be “hey, make sure nobody ‘spikes’ my drink.” And if I asked if the punch was “spiked” I would mean - “does it have booze in it?” not does it have GHB in it. Or if I said to my cubicle neighbor “do you…

I like your comments. I think it’s a complicated issue and most people have no reference point for it, and I agree that “like a toddler” is too simplistic. I used to work with people like the ones in the article and the video in terms of abilities and behavior. I think this woman is delusional and completely…

I don’t have an in depth take on Weezer because I never listened to them outside of hearing the hits on the radio/mtv, but that’s probably what I would have thought. Thank god for this blog post telling me what to think. Basically a guy who feels like a dork around women, even though he harbors a lot of douchey ideas…

Rumors: they’re a double alleged sword.

Amazing read. YOU should be the blogger

I always “show pending” because I’m interested in what disagreeable types and rabble rousers have to say. And of course I am one.

Thanks for posting! That linked article is a wild read and paints this person as a real sociopath, regardless of gender, who actually shouldn’t be around other people. Good thing she has it literally tattooed across her face, in case she gets out and people aren’t sure. That’s very helpful. And seriously, how is…