An old college friend is a reporter with one of the supermarket tabloids. She told me that the truthfulness of the articles published by papers like the National Enquirer is directly proportional to the propensity of the article’s subject to sue. There are three basic categories:

Well, you see. If the material is donated for research, there's no need for.... Doh!

Thank you for your service.

Yup. I was thinking that too. It was almost like he was chastizing blacks for caring about the issue.

“setting up all those white people to laugh at a lynching joke.”

I’m a southerner. That was a perfectly executed “bless your heart,” 10/10 would bless.

Hot (unpopular) take: The Newsroom was preachy, a scold, and ridiculous. But I loved it. I wish it was still on the schedule if for no other reason for their internet expert kid could finish his expose of “people can be assholes on the Internet”

She bragged the other day about knowing more than I think she knows about sex. And I was like oh yeah? And she said yeah I know everything. I ride a bus, mom. So I asked her about anal beads.

I’m the cheesy probably somewhat creepy girl-empowerment dad on the playground.

I was pretty rough & tumble lil girl, and was never afraid of physical injury (I was one of those kids with a perpetual wrist cast in elementary school because i loved taking risks on my skates), but I actually wish I had learned more about understanding and respecting fear, instead of just getting over it.

Being a…

it’s amazing how conditioning happens for girls at a young age. I remember starting 7th grade at my junior high (my elementary went to 6th) and at that time, we still had to test into “honors” classes (this was before Pre AP/AP classes). So I was in my honors math class with a mixed group of girls and guys. By the…

And as we’ve seen over and over in so many woman-centric arenas—sexual assault prevention foremost among them—the impulse to protect is very different from the impulse to ensure equity, and the two things, worked out in practice, are often exactly at odds.

OH MY GOD DO YOU GUYS EVER TAKE A BREAK, GO READ A BOOK AND HAVE A CUP OF TEA AND DO SOME SUDOKU OR SOMETHING

Can we agree that Deep Blue Something’s song “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” is good?

I look around my office (not academia but a legal job) and I see this issue over and over and over again. At the junior associate (entry) level, we are almost exactly 50% women attorneys. For people who are 10+ years into their career, and it’s maybe 20% women attorneys. The successful men have 2-4 kids and spouses…

Best sex positive education: be raised in a farm.
“Dad, so how are babies made?” “Don’t you see a dog mounting a bitch, or a rooster mounting a hen? Same thing for people.”

Yeah, I bet they met at camp but she lives in Canada.

YOU GUYS YOU GUYS

Every single “nice” thing someone said about him, as quoted in this article, is pretty much textbook damning with faint praise. It’s pretty beautiful to witness.

A deeply mediocre team quarterbacked by Nick Foles isn’t exactly a big draw for the citizens of Los Angeles