She is a fucking incredible con artist. She cultivated a personal story and fake business idea that so specifically and elegantly appealed to the combined bullshit-gobbling instincts of Silicon Valley and the interested media that I can’t help but give her a slow clap on the way to her prison cell.

I mean, say what you will about Elizabeth Holmes, but my god is she an amazing pioneer in the field of gender equality for massive corporate con-jobs. 

Yes, Christian Siriano does what a designer should do: he first looks deeply at the person who will wear his clothing and then uses his artistic vision to create an original design that enhances the unique best aspect of that person’s appearance and personality. He won my respect when he created that sensational red…

So like, when Marie Antionette built a whole little area in Versailles so she could play pretend poor for awhile

Thank you for this. I’ve been seeing so much of what strikes me as “educated eating disorders” like this lately, and it’s driving me crazy. I was anorexic for 17 years, and listening to people obsessively discuss their voluntary diet restrictions brings those unhealthy thoughts too close for comfort. Just because you…

My spider sense is clanging. You want to know what code-monkeys and hardcore gamerz love?

Breast cancer survivor here and I downloaded an app to help me track 13-hour overnight “fasts” to make sure I am leaving 13 hours between my last and first meal (helpful to lower my chance of cancer recurrence. I do this and healthy food, exercise, a whole package) Anyway I just wanted something simple to help me…

I think you meant “Gen X”. But that’s ok, we’re used to being invisible. 

The biggest lie is the “do what you love” one, because I don’t care how much you love something; once you’re forced to do it at the behest of a martinet boss, you’ll hate it and never want to do it again.

I could go on all day about this movie. Seeing it in that empty theater when I was still in high school. How it inspired my father to retire from his “Lumbergh” role at a large corporation and go into the nonprofit world. The paper-thin walls at the “Morningwood” apartment complex. 

One of the things that struck me about Office Space is the way it shows how fickle office friendships and alliances can be – the slightest change in circumstances can turn the best of friends into mortal enemies, and vice versa.

My younger brother has recently gotten into this kind of extremely restrictive dieting. He follows that keto diet 90% of the time, with intermittent fasting. On holidays or for family gatherings, he’ll have a “cheat day.” But other than that, it’s all keto all the time. My family and I have tried to stress how…

I’d like to add as an SF gay: all of the above is true for the gays plus adding the fact that everyone is already in an open/poly relationship so like no one is looking for an actual boyfriend.

Just be patient and wait until they get married.

I know Meghan wasn’t close with the Market side of the family because they don’t have more pictures of her to sell.

What no one seems to be acknowledging is that he spent most of this last year claiming she HADN’T been in contact, saying he was desperately trying to make contact - complete with photo ops of Samantha Markle flying into London to bring a letter to Buckingham Palace. So he LIED about this letter existing. Right up…

I find the histories of medieval convents FASCINATING. For every story you get of a nun running away to freedom you get a story about a woman running away to a convent sometimes for religious reasons but sometimes just to get away from a shitty family situation or for a better life.

As a Canadian I am ASTOUNDED that your entire country just goes around with all these untreated diseases. Up north there’s NO WAY any of these would have lasted more than a couple months before they were dealt with expediently and cheaply by Medicare. 

Every week it seems I’m more horrified by the people on this show who have to rely on a television program paying to diagnose and treat their gross medical issues than I am about the gross medical issues themselves. (Although, admittedly, the horn was particularly skeevy but fun to watch.) 

Every time I hear about “present exactly the same person/work but trick the decision-maker into believing the person is male (/white/able-bodied/straight)” experiments I want to scream and shove it in everyone’s faces. People spend so much time and energy saying “women (/PoC/etc) just don’t try as hard / don’t care as…