There are legitimate reasons for these rules, you know. What if some harlot were to show her ankle? Have you considered the ramifications??

This is why, when my 9 yo daughter asks me if a skirt is "ok" for school, I remind her that school dress codes are sexist, patriarchal bullshit, and that all her clothing is ok for school because I bought it and it goes on her body therefore ok.  I imagine these are things she'll discuss with her therapist someday -…

I had to do this at my private evangelical-Christian school. A lot of us had to have our dresses altered with fabric inserts to cover up cleavage or low backs. And we couldn’t submit photos, we had to bring our dresses to school, try them on in the women’s bathroom, then the principal or the highest-ranking woman…

What an incredibly invasive and creepy thing to ask. Also creepy-the principal claims there were “parents who are proud of the school for taking a stand to ensure prom is an encouraging, wholesome event.” aka parents who were totally fine with their girls being treated like objects that needed monitoring. 

Excuse me, she's not an alcoholic. Alcoholics have to go to all those meetings and that would cut way too much into her cocktail time.

I love hot dogs because they don’t kill cows for hot dogs, so you can eat hot dogs without guilt if you need meat but you still have vegan tendencies

I feel like this is making an argument for argument’s sake? The vast majority of Bernie supporters will be voting for the nominee.

i cant afford to be an empowered womxn anymore ;(

I’m so sorry that you’re going through this. Please consider that any trip you make to the hospital could be handled with precautions. Call his oncology care team and please alert them, they should be able to help with transport or have you go in for imaging at a time when there are very few patients. My own husband…

Fuck yeah, Nancy Pelosi is empowering—you might not know that she’s the first and only woman Speaker of the House of Representatives? Well, she is! And the greatest Speaker of our lifetime to boot! True, true, she’s not a Sandersista, which makes her slightly worse than Hitler, but she’s been pretty darn effective…

You’ve described the last few years of my life, in travel and dating an Italian. He genuinely believes that cold wind against ones skin results in diarrhea. And if we happened to sleep in a room with air conditioning, I never heard the end of it. He also closely monitored my intake of medicine, despite my protest that…

I’m very sorry.

No one can really hide from this 100%. The rich require staff, and staff are tasked with doing their marketing, their cooking and their cleaning..all of which require them to be out among the infected. Your yacht has a messy, germ-y crew that needs to connect with those you are trying to insulate from in order to get…

People have lost their god damn minds. Everything we know about this virus says that for most of us it’s probably less deadly than several strains of the flu that go around every few years. If you have a young child and had to choose which they get, apparently you should prefer they get COVID-19 over the flu. The only…

I am totally picturing the heeled slippers with the fluffy poofs on the front.

When my friend and I were studying abroad (both in different places), another mutual friend asked us to visit him in Belgium, where he lived with his parents. His mother insisted on house shoes. She thought that it was dangerous to walk on wood floors in socks, and that walking in bare feet gave you a stomach ache.

A friend of mine was in a grocery store yesterday. Although the store asked customers to buy a maximum of 5 bottles of hand sanitizer, she observed a lovely gentleman clear the entire shelf of product. Like, dozens of bottles. When asked politely by staff not to take the last of their supply, he screamed that he was a…

I would never buy a pair of house shoes, but that’s because my mummo makes tossut at such a rate that I will never need a different kind of house slipper. These are an example of tossut (am working from home today, mine are orange but otherwise similar). I have been led to believe they are common for Finns but that…

I know I’m too old to be dressing like an e-girl, but I don’t care.  I’m full-on cute clown baby, too much hot pink blush, I got a duo-tone pastel eyeshadow on today with a lil’ heart drawn on my cheek for good measure, and pink high-top Vans.  Oh, and a stack of different colored tattoo chokers on my neck.  I love…

When I go to NYC, I am really struck by how drably many people dress. I love love, love color and wear a lot of it. It makes me happy and it makes other people happy.