I agree with everything else in your comment, but I wanted to note that the “pusillanimous” thing is a false etymology. I don’t recall whether “pussy” meaning “female genitalia” or “pussy” meaning “a weakling or coward” came first, but they’re both derived from “puss” meaning “cat,” which is Germanic in origin.…

Am I reading this right? The movie is going to pretend that Nellie Bly actually had amnesia rather than being clever enough that she managed to fool numerous doctors, nurses, judges, police, etc. into thinking she was insane, and that she therefore endured much of her treatment at Blackwell’s Island because she didn’t…

I can’t even express in words how angry this makes me. Fuck ICE. Fuck everyone who supports this kind of bullshit. Even if Aranda-Holguin had been an undocumented immigrant rather than a legal resident, even if he is indeed a drug dealer, neither of those things should be capital offenses, to say the least. Even if he…

Figuring out what to do with Democrats in Congress who turn out to be predators is pretty much the epitome of an utilitarianism-versus-categorical-imperative situation, IMHO. I do understand the argument about leaving them in place - hell, I was leaning that way myself with Franken at first, when there was only one…

Yeah, the description of pumpkin pie as having a “vegetal smell” and “dry and uninspired crust” leads me to believe Megan has simply never had a properly made pumpkin pie, because those things are definitely not true of good pumpkin pie. Maybe she’d still hate a pumpkin pie baked from scratch with real pumpkin and a…

God fucking dammit.

I use a wheelchair. Should I never go out in public or do anything admirable lest people want to be like me? Should people follow me everywhere I go informing me that my legs don’t work and that’s not okay? After all, I’m not healthy, and as we all know, health is obviously a moral issue and not a personal issue…

(Damn, that ended up being long. I guess I have a lot of thoughts on this!)

As far as the photo, I mostly agree with you - it doesn’t look to me like he actually touched her, but instead was just aiming for “hey look, I’m pretending like I’m going to grope this unconscious woman against her will, HA HA SO FUNNY.” It’s disgusting, offensive, and incredibly disrespectful towards her, but if he…

Yeah, this sounds more like a horror movie to me than a comedy. I’m pretty sure hearing all men’s thoughts wouldn’t help me advance in my career so much as it would help convince me that I should probably quit my job and join some sort of isolated convent where I could stay locked in a little room by myself forever. I…

I feel like People’s Sexiest Man Alive must be decided by one person who lives in a bunker and whose sole contact with the outside world is a television that only shows episodes of The Voice. It’s pretty much the only way this makes sense.

It sounds like you and vocalshrapnel really need to get to know some actual people instead of spending your time hanging out with characters from jewelry store commercials. I know a lot of women who just wanted a basic courthouse wedding and a lot of men who very much wanted a big party with all their friends and…

I have an idea. The idea is “letting toddlers get run over by cars is not an okay thing to do,” which is an idea that anyone with two brain cells to rub together ought to be able to comprehend. Sadly, I get the impression that trolls tend to come up a little short in that department.

Yeah, when I got CPR certified, one of my big takeaways was that in an actual emergency situation, I’d be FAR more likely to be able to save someone in cardiac arrest by yelling, “Hey! You! Put your hands like this and push as hard as you can on my count!” at the nearest strong-looking person than I would by trying to…

I once dumped a guy after he told me a story about how earlier that day he’d seen a toddler wandering across a street by themself (we’re talking a kid young enough that he apparently couldn’t determine the toddler’s gender) and, rather than intervening in any way, getting the kid out of the street, trying to find…

I wish I had more than one star to give this comment.

Yuuuup. They also all have the same friend who was told by someone on a hiring committee that he was obviously the most qualified person for the job, but they hired an incompetent woman and/or POC anyway solely because of their gender/race. Oh, and they’ve all been screamed at by the same woman just for holding a door…

I feel the the best answer is just “stores should have less shitty dressing rooms AND they should be gender-neutral.” I don’t have any reason to care about the gender of the person in the next dressing room if they can’t get into or see into mine, after all.

I am so damn tired of seeing people respond to “I personally believe people when they say they’ve been sexually assaulted” with “HOW DARE YOU, THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM REQUIRES THE PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE.” It’s the dumbest fucking red herring, and I am 100% certain that most of the guys who scream it every time…

Could you?