I’d bet real money that Shamir gives better relationship advice than Purdie.

So where are you in the legal process now? I’m also dying to know how the FBI and CIA tried to recruit you in grade school. I had this whole brilliant code I made up so my friends and I could talk about boys without them knowing, but alas, nobody attempted to recruit me.

How specific can we get here? I’d like an emotionally unavailable man with nice forearms please.

Fucking THANK YOU.

Crap letter from a dude.

Hard pass.

Really? Tell that to basically every aging male rock star ever. Honestly, if you (and I don’t mean you personally, I don’t know you) call yourself an intersectional feminist and you can’t or won’t see the intersection of ageism and misogyny, I’m not here to explain it to you. If you’re a woman, you’ll find out soon…

What young woman wants to sleep with a guy in his 50s?

Yep, I agree. I was pointing out that some commenters here love to talk about how old she is, and how that somehow makes her disgusting. It’s baffling, because there’s so much about her behavior to loathe without focusing on her age.

No, I don’t think it is. You can have opinions on what you think fits better together. People were just straight-up calling her a gross old lady, which isn’t cool. I think you can think she’s gross or that her behavior is gross, without bringing age into it as the prime factor in the grossness.

And like, how new is this century, exactly?

Right. I saw those, and they’re right. The comments saying it’s gross because she’s an old woman are ageist.

Yep, you definitely have to be old to point out ageism, just like you have to be a woman to point out sexism, or a POC to point out racism.

Nothing like an article on Madonna to bring out the ageism in Jez commenters.

Mmmmmm donuts.

This is what pisses me off about hypoChristians. They can dish it out (PUT GOD BACK IN SCHOOLS, LET US PRAY AT COMMENCEMENT, BLAH BLAH JESUS) but they can’t take it. You want religion allowed in the public sphere, fine, but don’t act like whiny babies when it’s not your personal one.

No.

Ugh. Definitely gross and depressing. After my mom died, I was in charge of going through all her papers and stuff. I found letters of reference that mentioned her appearance, like: She has a very pleasing figure, and she is quite attractive. I could not believe that sort of shit was acceptable then. I think the…

Prismdent? He is our prismdent.

One night I woke to the sound of someone trying to pick the lock on my apartment door. I was home alone with infant son and I had no rational thought in my head. I just moved closer to the door and yelled HONEY, GET THE GUN THERE’S SOMEONE TRYING TO BREAK IN!