It saddens me that so many young women are afraid to call themselves feminists. Somehow, Fox news and their ilk has succeeded in making that word translate to angry, bitchy woman. My nieces and female coworkers have occasionally expressed this idea. Fuck that. 

Oh, Lala. How I miss you.

Polyamory sounds exhausting to me. Being a complete introvert, just thinking about juggling multiple people in my life like that makes me all kinds of tired. If my marriage ever goes south, I’ll just stick to internet porn. Or maybe a sex robot if they ever get those going before I’m too old to give a damn.

The drop in interest, to me, has more to do with finding out that your male partner is also a child you have to take care of. Women do more “work” in relationships than some (not all!) men and that leads to strain. By work, I mean social relationships with other couples, house cleaning, child rearing, and so on.

It’s the “his own people” that’s most telling. At a subconscious, gut-belief level, Spicer doesn’t consider Jewish Germans and Austrians to be Germans and Austrians, i.e. Hitler’s people. He considers them wholly Other in a way that is analogous to Hitler’s own Othering of Jews, gays, Communists, dissenters, etc.

Yes. The problem is not with how we behave at the table if we get there, which is part of the story, but getting a seat at that table to begin with.

I had mixed feelings about the book back in the days of yore when it came out. Some of that has already been expressed in the comments (how easy it is to give out advice from a privileged standpoint, as if your mere will to do better and “lean in” would actual produce results. There are people who were always…

Sheryl needs to go away now.

Huh. It’s almost as if policy and patriarchy dictate this stuff and not the you-go-get-‘em determination of individual women.

Grown man calling wife “mother” will never stop being creepy AF.

I don’t remember the exact quote, and googling “mother murder” is terrifying, but someone once said something like, “Becoming a mother has brought me closer to being able to murder people than I thought I would ever be.”

I like this moment from earlier today.

I’m not sure if I’m relieved or terrified that the Republicans running our government are so incompetent that their evil health care “replacement” died in 17 days.

Some people think he looks like someone else:

This is simply not true for most people. You are assuming that people will not click on the blatantly obvious fake ads or downloads for flash player which ends up being a virus. I’m a systems admin and deal with the removal of viruses constantly. To say that anyone can just forgo any antivirus solutions is ignorant.