Look at that fucking gorgeous creative writing professor.

Chris Pine went to Berkeley, studied English literature, and did the education abroad program at the University of Leeds a few years after I did. He’s rep’ing us English majors well, and is therefore the top Chris.

YES. The lengths they went to in order to try and “handle” anyone who came to the aid of residents was disgusting.

This is very good advice, but I wonder...why are some of us this way? Is it something we’re born with? The result of some traumatic incident in childhood? I’d really like to know.

Harder said than done for the anxiety wracked amongst us, but a good goal to work for. Another technique I’ve picked up over the years is to remind myself that people spend 99% of the time thinking of themselves and not thinking about a minor stupidity that an acquaintance said.

My guess is that the medical staff doesn’t want to participate in furthering his suffering.

As I have written before, my daughter died when she was five in 2011, two months after being diagnosed with an inoperable and malignant brain tumor. There is no cure for her type of tumor - DIPG - and current treatments do little more than extend life for a few months.

Fuck bears. I no longer hike because of the danger from men.

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.