:D I am v. common but my non-Brit friends always think my accent is distinguished and I milk it for all it’s worth. Like yes, I am a refined lady of quality, sat here, in my dressing gown, eating macaroni cheese from the container.

Exactly! I feel like many Jez readers are white and priviledged and they have this idea that all sex work is empowering and those of us who are worried about women who are coerced or trafficked are “hysterical” like te author said. Well, I am Mexican and an immigrant and most women I know who did sex work were coerced…

I think the negative side of sex work or any work can be discussed without removing agency. I don’t see it as an all or nothing situation.

So a week after I started this job, a guy who no longer worked at the publication I worked for died in a car accident. I never met him, and he was a copy editor so it wasn’t like I was familiar in any way with him through what he wrote.
But nevertheless, the EOC said everyone needed to go. So I went. And somehow the…

I guess I can KINDA see the resemblance.

“I’M CUMMING!”

What the fuck? Did this get posted to Pearl Clutcher’s Daily?

It is clear that all these people failed to receive their “Welcome to the Internet” orientation packet and I will be bringing this up at the Internet Overlords lunch meeting next week.

Teenage girls (well, okay, probably teenage boys, too) are pretty easily manipulated by the desire to appear cool, tough, sophisticated, down with the scene, etc — basically to live up to whatever expectations are being set around them. I think it’s the entire reason that age of consent laws are a thing: we know it’s…

I met Zadie Smith at a book signing for The Autograph Man (it was a double reading with her and Dave Eggers). She was a goddess, seriously. Everything you want to be true about her? Like, she really looks that gorgeous in person and she is smart and witty and kind and modest? It’s true. I bought her book just so I…

Why did he attempt this, sweet mother of dragons? He avoids the high notes, so he must know he’s incapable of hitting them. So why isn’t he applying the same logic to all the other notes? Could he be under any illusion at all that he can sing?

It’s a shame he isn’t gay; his partner’s could be named Sullivan. Oh well.

I know! I’ve been stunned by the yes / no ratio. I mean, I’m not having sex while uninvolved people are in the room.

I do not hate anybody. Well, I hate some people. But not trans women. What I hate are new words to describe what I am. I hate that my daughter finds it necessary to refer to herself as a cis woman all the time. She is never simply a woman. She is a cis woman. The trans community has added a qualifier to a perfectly…

Let me expand that a little as I didn’t have time to say much more. In all of the rush to decry another aged TERF, particularly in a column arguing that she failed to use reason and got caught up in her emotions, all the commenters basically fail to deal effectively with any of the premises of Burkett’s argument.

What I find fascinating in terms of dialogue is that all a man has to do to now be considered able to understand the female experience is declare he’s a woman and really mean it. I’m not saying this is incorrect (and have no real idea whether it is or not) but it’s interesting considering the argument about men not…

People are constantly getting off by things in public without your knowledge or consent.

<insert requisite comment about how Christians are most definitely not persecuted, Sharia Law is not the end all evil they make it out to be, people in general being idiots>

Ok, having said that, I’m a little uncomfortable with “Covered Girl Challenge”, mainly because of the words “Covered” and “Girl.” Students should…

Can’t tell you how many ransom arguments I’ve gotten into with parents because I don’t know the stupid kid’s name. They’re like “Brown hair with a red tshirt? That could be anybody’s kid. Not my problem.” There’s gotta be a better way!

My kids like to invite alllll their friends to their birthday parties. But receiving that many gifts is INSANE and not good for anyone. So I have come up with Creative Solutions, for instance: “please bring a book to exchange.” Then we have a huge grab bag and everyone gets a book! Present Overload avoided AND party…