I'm not going to lie, I'm only on jez for Ninjacate, Kyosuke, kshortie16, and a few others but watching this Jez/lena dunham meltdown has been hilarious. Its like watching the two annoying white girls at a party trying to out annoy the other one.

No, Tracie, that's not why people called you and your colleagues 'mean girls'. They called you one bc you willingly paid TEN FUCKING THOUSAND DOLLARS to get unretouched photos for the sole purpose of trying to point out Lena's flaws under the guise of "critical discussion". And when Lena's "flaws" weren't as gossip…

DERAIL TRAIN INCOMING!

Excuse me, why was the not labeled "Your Evening Cry" ?!?!

Ugh, Upworthy. I do highly recommend Upworthy: Springfield if you're a Simpsons fan.

I don't know who you were hanging out with, but my friends did not do anything remotely like this at his age. We got drunk and silly — sometimes at bars, sometimes at home — and that was about it. We never went out of our way to destroy people's property, go drag racing, or fuck long strings of sex workers.

When we have a new, ill-defined word for people we don't like and that we deny being ourselves even though everyone knows we totally are one. Remember yuppies and hippies and beatniks and flappers and the New Woman and fops and rakes?

Maybe the film makers will surprise everyone and focus more on how Christian isolates Ana from her friends and family and coerces her into sexual activity she clearly states that she is not comfortable with. Something with more of a, "Sleeping With The Enemy," vibe.

It got really confusing in the third book when they started doing some anal stuff and there were suddenly two "down theres."

It had such a compelling original plot and such well-written characters. It will be a fascinating movie with the sex toned down because there was so much more to the story than just the sex. (sarcasm)

What scares me is that I'm so inundated in Sim-ness that I had to reread the points to get what was so funny about most of them.

Also, they patched the murphy bed? Oh. Huh. I haven't been able to bring myself to use them since my very first university student tried to put the damn bed away his very first morning at…

"But there's a white lady chair!" "This is a play on Allen Jones' art from the 60's; why is it only bad if it's a black woman?" Is it possible that there might be different connotations and implications with a black lady chair than with the white lady chair (besides the obvious sexism in the whole depiction of women…

Actually, yes, it would be a different story if they had used a different chair. Black people and white people have, currently and historically, been treated very differently in ours and many societies. Therefore, it's completely reasonable to acknowledge that a picture of a black woman being used as a chair would…

exactly. the context of art does matter. meaning you can't ignore that there have been hundreds of years of discrimination/violence/power and privilege inequities that systematically put white people at an advantage over black people. so an image of a rich white woman turning a black woman into an object and sitting…

What a refreshingly compassionate response.

My heart goes out to her. I can't imagine how frightened and embarrassed she must be with the judgement of the world on her. I hope she can get the support she needs right now to raise her baby. I hope they're both going to be ok.

I'm not quite sure who this was directed at, what you expect me to say, or what your point is.

We're not discussing that language, we're discussing English, and specifically American media conventions regarding trans individuals. And I'm not just an American trans woman who speaks English, I am also an American trans woman who has worked in journalism in the United States.