She looks like my mom showed up to collect an Oscar! Go mom lady!

Yeah that up and down stare he has was obnoxious. I now have bad feelings about him, but I’ll give him another shot.

Ha exactly! The best advice I ever got when I was starting out as a reporter, taking in some freelance work, was from a crusty, chain-smoking, veteran war reporter. She looked me square in the eye and said: Don’t ever work for free. What we do is hard fucking work and fuck anyone who won’t pay for it.

Give me 80's movies where the apartments are as big as closets and everyone looks miserable.

How many times do people need to be told that the inherent implication behind black lives matter IS all lives matter?!?!

For sure. I was devastated when I shattered my ankle the day before Spring Semester 2015 began. I was texting my chair from the emergency room, lining up subs who could cover my classes. The doctor advised I stay away from work for a month, you better believe I was back after three weeks. I wanted it firmly set in the…

I think it really depends on the university and department. With no official policy in place it really comes down to what a department chair can negotiate for a person.

One of the female faculty when I was in grad school talked about a ~very~ derisive male member of a promotion (or tenure...I don’t remember the details) committee that she was on. The woman who was up for tenure/promotion had had a rough pregnancy, and had been on bed rest for most of it. She had had to take the…

Go, Gaga! I don’t think she’s particularly great on AHS, but she knows what the hell she’s doing music-wise. It’s amazing—the better you are at your job in the entertainment industry as a woman, the less respect you get for knowing what you’re doing.

If only oppression weren’t so pretty, right?

In 5-7 years your Instagram feed will contain many many many wedding/baby pictures. Just you wait. :(

Yeah, I’ve seen their kind refer to this as ‘lock and key theory’. As a scientist: no, it’s not a theory in any way, shape or form, it’s an analogy and a terrible one at that and you look very very stupid when your modus operandi is based on an analogy.

I hadn’t seen that excerpt previously; thanks for referencing it.

If you think he was disappointed with that, you should have seen how he felt when I tried to sell his actual baby to a couple in the park.

It really is, I’ve never heard a man referred to as being damaged goods. Kinda like how you generally need to be a man in order to be a ‘troubled genius’.

Damaged goods is such an ugly gendered term.

I feel you. When my baby boy was 8 months old, I started telling him that he wasn’t entitled to women’s personal space or time. No idea if it’s taken yet.

This brings to mind the words of Rhett Butler:

The movie was really quite bad. But nothing in it was as awful as this prose:

Mine too!! I am 30 and decided to go back to school a couple years ago and now I can’t stop thinking about how I will be 33 when I am out of school then I will need to establish a career before having kids and 40 is about the age where it’s your last chance to have kids and.... how much it really sucks to be a woman…