No one even thought of working after having kids, and few have any plans to go back even when the kids have left home.

The lesson here, to me, is that we’ve so absorbed and believed in the idea of romantic love being the primary, if not only, reason to partner with someone, we reject any other mutually agreed upon, compensated arrangement as perverse. And an assumption that a woman in such an arrangement isn’t respected, is being…

Other than “we’re the good guys so we’ll keep our word”, there’s no good reason to hold up their end of the bargain with Thawne. Really, these characters have the idiot ball superglued to their hands at all times.

You can’t edit your posts after 15 minutes or so. So, no, I did not edit that after you responded to it.

I love your recaps, Kate. And I hope Kaitlyn is just there to make out with a bunch of dudes because why the fuck not?

But why does Dr. Snow, who works at a particle accelerator, not know what a singularity is? I can ask any middle school boy what a singularity is and half of them will say black hole.

Lots of things to love about this, including modeling parenting while working in a high-profile way, showing that you can be “serious” about your work and still care for munchkins, making our professional culture more kid-friendly (Aka seeing that the world didn’t end that she was up there). The more high-profile…

It’s not that people think that women lie about rape. It’s that people think that women lie about EVERYTHING. Women don’t ever misspeak, embellish or create. They just lie. That is why people turn to your boyfriend to ask them the same question they just asked you and you just answered. These MRAs and their kin aren’t…

Not really a subtweet since she tagged him.

Completely agree.

it’s common to pin a hundred-dollar bill to the bouquet

I honestly have no clue. Probably more than 20? Less than 40? But I’ve never been married, dated a bunch, had a number of one night stands. But SO WHAT? My health is clean. I prefer monogamy. Anyways. I don't share. Dudes can be weird about it.

Me too. I usually use the line “it’s more than 1, less than 100”. I’m uh, pretty sure that is still the case, although I was definitely an experimental girl there for a while. When I started dating one guy he told me o was the 3rd girl he had been with in the last decade and I though “Fuck, i’ve had sex with more than…

For all the noise made about that movie’s scientific accuracy, they sure didn’t hesitate to throw out anything and everything they learned about science.

Love does not transcend time and space. The movie would have been much better if the protagonist just was spaghettified the moment he entered the black hole. It’s not that I don’t get the movie, it’s just really dumb.

I’m always super frustrated when people talk about organic and inorganic elements of stories. “Don’t just shove in minorities. That’s artificial” as if stories ripen on the vine and are harvested when juicy by writers. The story is literally a product of the writer, who is a product of their socio-economic cultural…

Ah, yes. Just like dragons, maesters, white walkers, and everything else in the show, it’s perfectly historically accurate.

Seriously. Let it go. Everything will be okay.

I once went into a long rant on this in a previous post, but essentially, people only ask the number question for two reasons - to either brag or judge. And, most men who at least think they’ve had extensive sexual histories can’t fucking wait to tell people. This desire is so strong that they can’t even overcome the…

Ok, I’m going to wax philosophical for a moment here. Maybe just maybe in the grand scheme of things historically, 20 or 40 years from now what’s remembered from the Kardashian clans run in the collective consciousness is how they brought trans issues into a greater public awareness with loving acceptance. I could be…