Alvin Ailey has been dead since 1989, which is still no excuse for someone writing about contemporizing ballet not to know who he is and what he accomplished, but Mark Morris is alive and well and his troupe still performs regularly at their studio in Brooklyn...25 years after his adaptation of “classic” ballet The…

Hey friends! Haven’t been around for awhile, partially due to life getting in the way and partially due to a growing disenchantment with the site (way too much pop culture coverage + Bernie bias lately). I’ve missed you guys though...

I recently had some commenter on Gawker mansplain to me that Bernie is MUCH better on abortion than Hillary... because ONE TIME he answered a debate question and said abortion was between a woman and her doctor while Hillary got all “bogged down” talking about Planned Parenthood and access and who even needs to talk…

Yep. It’s infuriating. Bernie can do whatever the fuck he wants, as far as I can tell, up to and including deliberately excluding women from positions of power in his campaign and completely ignoring Roe v. Wade when asked if he would have a litmus test for Supreme Court appointees, while Hillary Clinton gets to…

“So cool he couldn’t even bother to find one woman to hire to one of the top ten most highly-paid positions in his campaign.”

Spot on. I‘ve been using this argument since I saw a breakdown of everyone’s top staff. For fuck’s sake, even Trump has 3 women in the top ten.

Didn’t you know? Bernie is, like, all cool and shit. So cool he couldn’t even bother to find one woman to hire to one of the top ten most highly-paid positions in his campaign. Worse than Marco Rubio, even. But we’re a feminist site, so of course we’ll just keep shitting all over Clinton for... well, reasons.

Agreed!

Weird. I actually thought this bit was awesome. What makes it cringeworthy is how true it is.

“It was for this reason that I started holding an annual party in celebration of Peeps a decade ago.”

“Under my plan, generics are free, name brand is $60 a month. Highway robbery.”

“Feminism is treated like the solution to a problem that’s already been solved”

no advice on the marriage front, but I am in awe of your awesome mom skills. one day your kids are going to realize that you literally BRUSHED TURDS for them and they are going to be like “wow my mom really loves me.” sometimes I realize the crazy shit my parents have done for me and it makes me feel warm and happy…

Motherhood/marriage-related rant (and I apologize in advance for the TMI/grossness/bummer content). So, my younger daughter has been complaining of abdominal pain for some time now, and I decided to investigate. So far she’s been diagnosed with a quite severe lactose intolerance and the doctor wants to test for…

MAYBE it is just because I am a cynical asshole and also a fat but the joke was that she is fat right?

Lots of blondes have very light or sparse brows- we’re just used to seeing them pencilled and powdered in. She doesn’t appear to wear much if any makeup, so she likely doesn’t darken and fill them out. Blond lashes and brows are not a selling point for fair coloring.

“I just think, DONALD, that it would be handy to have a hands-on-executive one the one hand, and on the other hand to have someone who can handle an administration where the right hand knows what the left hand is doing, and vice versa, the left hand knows what the right hand is doing. We can’t just hand over our…

So I’m here with a pedantic request: can we please banish the (made-up?) term ‘biannual’? I’ve seen people using it more and more lately, and what’s worse is they’re using it to denote two different things. If you mean once every two years, say ‘biennial’. If you mean twice a year, say ‘semiannual’.

or pay an extra $600 for them to be added like I will. I generally don’t wear tank tops or even tshirts. Its not a modesty thing at all, its pretty much a “i dont like strangers, acquaintances and even friends touching me” thing. I view that layer as the last line of defense and I imagine it would especially be needed…

I had hoped that the whole wedding attendant thing would have moved away from the implied investment when accepting to be in someone’s wedding. I only had a maid of honor, so I was only in one other wedding. My husband, on the other hand, was constantly being asked to be that extra guy when the bride has like 8…