A 43 year old essay? Obviously a reason to totally discredit a candidate. Days old support for a pedophile? Well, that’s just an expression of religious freedom.

I don’t cry, but man, walking down the street when the sun is shining is enough to get me feeling awe. I just get this feeling of how incredible it is to be alive, on this planet, where each individual I pass on the street has a life as rich and complex as my own, with its own pain and its own successes. I look at…

I tend to cry at overwhelmingly beautiful or happy things. The first time I saw mountains in Alberta, really well made movie-trailers, acts of kindness. I cried at a rainbow once. My friends tend to make fun of me and joke that it means I’m simple minded because I’m so awe-struck by the simplest things. But I just…

i think the sweat can like glide along the hair and evaporate/get off the skin where the stink-making bacteria are

It has a lot to do with intent. Lena was concerned about her sister having pebbles, uh, up there at the same level she would have been if the pebbles had been up her sister’s nose, and then there are five year old boys at my daughter’s school who stuff their hand down her pants to make other kids laugh. No matter the…

I ask, purely in the spirit of discussion, what makes her creepy? And how does being 'creepy' mean you deserve to be lumped into the same category as someone who is nearing sexual maturity fondling his own sisters genitals and breasts?

up to three days per dose

It blows my mind that anyone can compare the two. A seven year old is not thinking about their body or anyone else’s in a sexual way. BUT HAS ANYONE EVER MET A 14 YEAR OLD BOY??

Nice article. But this is a much more succinct explanation of the right’s comparison of Duggar to Dunham.

This is incredibly well written and well thought out. I’m sorry that your name pops up with such a terrible association, that must hurt but seriously great job on this piece.

Yeah, I don’t know how it’s possible, but I definitely found that my armpits were less stinky when I didn’t shave them.

1) Suck in stomach while wearing a bikini at a public beach

I think ‘content warnings’ is probably a better catchall term, because as you rightly point out there’s absolutely no way to warn for all potential triggers, and forcing professors to guess at the most “common” ones pretty much guarantees they’re going to be relying on potentially stigmatizing stereotypes.

“Burns, with the exception of Burning Man, which I would also never attend, are only a few days long, nothing costs money once you get there, and you really don’t feel like you’re missing out on much if you decide to take nap in a hammock or just chill with some buddies around a campfire for a while.”

I think there is a difference in something like history versus literature. An average human being has taken history, watched the news, etc and usually has some idea that yes, there are going to be disturbing things because people suck. But someone who has never read certain works of literature or genres may or may not…

I agree with this. As a teacher who plunged into discussing a poem about suicide then realised one girl was sobbing at the back of the class (later found out her uncle had just committed suicide), a simple ‘head’s up’ content warning eliminates potentially incredibly upsetting experiences for students.

Maybe you should stop watering your damn useless lawn in a drought.

SHE HAS A SIDEWALK TO WATER, SIR OR MADAM

“I’m just shocked actually, paranoid, and a little squeamish now about even watering at all,”