I spent my 30 seconds contemplating the ways in which my ad-blocker is stealing food from the mouths of the people who are laboring to bring me quality programming.

I crave the day when sex work is treated just like any other type of work.

"The kids did learn something. They learned that pointless rules are arbitrarily applied depending on how twisted someone's knickers get."

That soap makes this look like a serious documentary.

If they're gonna do this, I want them to full on Phillipa Gregory-style batshit on this one. I want Mary literally seducing everyone before she explodes her husband. I want scheming bad-girl Elizabeth I knocking boots with Robert Dudley and throwing his wife down the stairs. I want there to be a wholly fictional…

If they actually give me a CHOICE between skimpy and proper armor then I'm cool with it. But a lot of the time it's this or 'don't play the game'. Guild Wars 2 has a lot of choice in armor. My ranger actually wears pants. The people who want skimpy outfits can get those too.

Now, since I've been around these parts a while, while Lindy makes a lot of good points in the article, I just wanted to highlight this particular section before we get the usual suspects in the comment section saying the usual things:

It's ironic because this guy makes me want to do to him exactly what he THINKS a feminist wants to do to all men. (See above.)

I think the very sense of wonder science helps create is a great antidote to existential angst. I used to feel like this in my teens and early 20's, but when I look back and try to figure out what helped shift my perspective, I think I can say a good chunk of it was related to sitting around thinking about the…

I was part of this commercial too but I didn't make the cut because when they told me I was ugly I stripped naked and destroyed the whole set.