The Wire.

Mmmm... tbh I’m all about the arms in that picture.

There is a board book called Penis Pokey that constantly gets put with the kids’ books. I mean, sure, I guess any kid with a penis could play with it, but, like, that’s not the target audience.

This is all well and good until some TV news anchor has to say “The death toll from winter storm Yolo is still climbing with seven confirmed deaths so far.”

I started typing a sarcastic “But does it really happen that often?” but it made me feel gross to even pretend. It is something I try to read and think about and check my own behaviour for - I’m okay with being a feminist who’s white but definitely trying to stay outside White Feminism.

Can’t speak for everyone but I’m being rude because I cannot in any situation imagine a disabled person or a person of colour or someone who identifies as LGBT telling me about their life experiences and my first response being “Well how often does that happen to you? Have you tried responding like this? Have you…

So your comment made me laugh not because it’s funny, but because this exact thing happened to my friend’s mum! Also she had jaundice at the time so looked dreadful and clearly unwell but people still said “Have you lost weight? You look amazing.” Like how fucking absurd and sad is it that this is basically a…

I WILL BE THIS FRIEND!!! Isn’t “don’t comment on anyone’s weight ever” already a rule? Because if it’s not then it should be.

Every time. Every single time that I have been seated in public, alone, reading I have been bothered by a man. Which is probably about once a week when the weather is nice. This is not an exaggeration. Maybe don’t make suggestions to people who have no doubt already tried literally every approach that you could…

Can you take a friend with you who can say “Woah, that’s totally inappropriate!”? Because I would be that friend.

So I only just watched this film on Sunday and this was something that I loved, and really didn’t expect! I kept waiting for the cringe moment of Lottie saying “Why would he want you?!?” but it never happened! Sure, she’s a bit ditzy and spoiled, but they did a great job balancing that with the fact that she was…

I’m hoping that the movie will do a better job with one or two of the deaths from the third book. And by better I mean “THAT SHOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED IT DIDN’T DO ANYTHING TO DRIVE PLOT OR CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT WHY GODAMMIT??”

But none of those have a tradition of locker room interviews, right? It’s very American.

Google says: http://www.midwestsportsfans.com/2013/04/puttin…

When is the last time a women’s sport was covered with the depth and interest that even shitty men’s teams get?

Haha - I was coming to make this joke! Glad I read through the other comments before replying. Also glad that you executed the joke well. Nothing worse than someone making a similar joke to you but doing it worse ;)

“I don’t want to date/get married.” often means “I don’t want to date/marry you.”

Yeah... it seems pretty one way, although I know lots of people who did both while freelancing. I do think you could go back to journalism if it was only a year or two in PR/marketing, BUT at that point you’ve probably lost a lot of your contacts etc so finding a job might be more difficult. And I don’t mind - it’s an…

By the time I got to the point of changing it felt more like a relief than a big career decision! I’m about five years ahead of you career timing-wise so my honest advice would be if you like your job and you’re earning enough to live comfortably then I say stay in journalism. It’s more fun and more meaningful than…

I’m in Canada and I feel oddly torn on this. I feel a genuine kinship with women in the USA and want to support them having access to the healthcare they need. BUT if I’m going to donate internationally to support women’s health, it seems weird to donate to the USA, one of the richest countries in the world, instead…