Huh. Well, I thought it provoked a good discussion. Glad to hear you think I'm nice, though. I really appreciate that.

So, absolutely yes on affirmative action.

"Good god, do you people know the meaning of fascism?"

I want to hear that this guy got beaten and left for dead in an abandoned lot on the edge of town. Or at least screamed at, shamed, reported to the cops, prosecuted, and put on one of those predator websites, since that is quite illegal, and if that guy hasn't raped a child yet, it's only because he hasn't had the…

Honestly, I hate those campaigns because they are vulgar and stupid. Mine is the Dowager Countess critique of awareness marketing.

Apparently I do have reading comprehension issues, because I can't figure out what you are responding to here. Perhaps you posted this in the wrong place.

I know! How would the author like it if we used her nickname instead of her professional name? (If I'm not mistaken, the diminutive of Christine M. Flowers would be "Dumbfuck McHateypants.")

So, so, so wish that my mostly-women rpg group was still operating. I would invite you to join it. That was such a great bunch of people. I had wanted to play rpgs since junior high, but I always encountered the messed up, creeper misogyny you described. It took me forever to find a good bunch of gamers, but it was so…

As an elderly lady geek, I can tell you this isn't new. I love my nerd friends, men and women. My old Shadowrun group are some of the dearest people in the world to me, as are the college pals I used to get high with and watch Blake's 7 reruns, my old HS quiz bowl team, and my pals from that Anime movie club. Love!…

I don't think that's what she was saying.

Slanket!!!

Thanks, dude. My mascara was already ruined from that ad, and now I have embarrassing runny cry-nose.

Tim Gunn's voice coming out of that horrendous, cheap, animated butler...egads! I actually went "eargah!" and recoiled from the computer. There's just something not-right about it.

It just did mine as well! Thanks!

Seriously, Jezebel. Hire a proofreader. Hell, hire me. I need the job.

Okay, deep cleansing breaths, and trying to engage in healing dialogue mode... Here's a thing I would like you to think about and just sort of roll around in your brain for a bit. Perhaps the belief that race doesn't have to be an "issue" is a luxury that not everyone has. See, you can decide to think about race or…

Oh good - someone else thought the same thing. It's very silly and pointless to try and pull apart the gender and the race problems and rank them separately. That's not how race and gender work.

That's weird. My Maine Coon was a stone killer: mice, birds, fish, frogs, baby bunnies, full-grown rats, and one harrowing close call with the neighbor's miniature schnauzer puppies. That cat would kill and eat anything he saw. He also mentored a litter of kittens who turned out to be pretty badass hunters themselves.…

Wow. I was hoping you would say that second kid flipped it back to normal. I want another kid, but my periods have been freaking godawful since baby #1. Before pregnancy, I was like the Fairy Princess Lightdays and had had cramps all of about twice ever. I want that back. These new, crampy, blood-and-rage-drenched…

Yeah, that's totally a thing that can happen (premenstrual dysphoric disorder), and a doctor can help.