Being considered a hero is one thing, but when the issue is that you have PTSD, and the “T” in question occurred as a result of your heroism, which was performed in your capacity as a police officer, then maybe it’s not exactly super-fair for you to get kicked off the police force just before you were going to get…

“Bump suggests that power is at the heart of this symbolic and ultimately empty appellation, and he’s right.”

They really nailed it with that paragraph. It’s semantically very simple, but just acknowledging and validating these experiences goes so far. Just reinforcing the idea that this is something that happens to people is so important.

You raise a good point, and that would’ve made a good nomination, but choosing the journalists themselves over the voices that so desperately need to be heard seems like the wrong move. Like Ronan Farrow himself said just a month ago when he went on The Late Show to discuss the Weinstein story, journalists are…

“One only has the emotional range of a teaspoon!”

It’s sooo predictable: any time a local news story end up on a GMG site, and the locale in question is not NYC, someone makes a comment about how awful that particular state is. It’s just stupid.

Ha! I went looking for this image just to clarify that the movie was most definitely not called Book of the Dead, and then you had to go and fix the error by the time I got back. Oh, well! Here it is anyway, as a general reference for those who have no idea what movie you’re talking about:

“My baloney has a first name, it’s c-o-n-t-r-a-b-a-n-d”

There we go! Perfect joke; mission accomplished. On to the next subject, dear Kinja friends!

No, keep the thrills in the realm of fiction, please. Teens really torture each other over their secrets, and the last thing they need at this point in their lives is more shame and angst. Everything gets so tangled up in neuroses and dysfunction and primal urges that kids learn all the wrong lessons, becoming…

I’m sure this girl was just being a particularly devious troll (i.e. inducing panic), but I’m glad they took the threat seriously. School shooting threats should never be taken lightly – a lesson I hope is being drilled into this girl’s head as we speak.

I’m not suggesting that SNL is any more authoritative than any other source, but I think the video speaks for itself. It gives voice to a fairly universal thought process among women. It says, “Nope, it’s not just you thinking this!”

Ew! That’s so gross. (Define “ew” and “gross” in the least flippant or trivializing way possible here.)

It is a lot like the Handmaid’s Tale short – good catch. Both have little to offer women viewers other than validation (no, really, it’s not just that you’re over-analyzing men’s reactions because you see everything through Feminist Goggles!), but I really appreciate them as wake-up calls to men.

You can tell me; I promise I won’t tell anyone else! 🙃

I am so sorry you’ve had to put up with that crap for so long, especially from a friend. Our society trains men to believe they’re entitled to do whatever they can get away with, and it teaches us to avoid “making a scene” at all costs – namely, our comfort, physical and sexual autonomy, personal agency, and basic…

Just like it was a year ago, it’s tempting to think that revolution is our best option at this point, but the truth is that revolution is never the best option until all semblance of societal stability is already gone. Revolution means gambling on the possibility that if you burn everything to the ground and rebuild,…

Yeah, electromagnetic locks on office doors are unusual. Locks that can be operated remotely, even more so! This was obviously no “conventional door handle lock.” It strikes me as kind of funny that you think the report would bother detailing whether the lock was electromagnetic, but here’s an excerpt from a Slate post

Well, I imagine any form of food or beverage would work, but I suspect they went with tea because of its association with etiquette and social customs, and because the juxtaposition of something as delicate and classy as serving tea with the bizarre coerciveness of forcing a beverage down someone’s throat makes for an…

“Women, nonbinary folks, trans folks—you can all drink, but until the office dudes have proven that they can [behave themselves], they can wash down their sliders with a soda.”