Ha! That’s a great one. Some people just can’t appreciate the delicate balance of poetry, escapism, Dadaism, nihilism, defiance, snark, creativity, irreverence, political literacy, internet sensibility and pop culture savvy that it takes to pull these things off. ;)

Hey, someone had to do it! This is Kinja, after all.

This has been their shtick for some time now, and some of us happen to appreciate it, thankyouverymuch.

I think of “collusion” as being in the same class of general crime words as “corruption,” “conspiracy,” “extortion,” “racketeering,” “fraud,” etc., but the Emoluments Clause was definitely one of those concepts that only a total wonk could identify by name. It’s interesting how certain specialized terminology can…

Man, remember when Obama was president and everyone was just vaguely annoyed that it seemed like nothing was happening? Those were the days. The sheer stability of it all... Gee whiz, remember how he would pop by Fallon to Slow Jam the News sometimes? Because he was just a casual, friendly, likeable dude and the mere…

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Uh, I assume you’re just trying to say he’s such a creep, he would likely do such a thing? Or maybe you’re saying this image motivates you to prevent other people from having children? Help me out here.

Honestly, it does almost seem like its own twisted form of sexual harassment, doesn’t it? I doubt he’d be doing that to her if she were a boy. “Conservative” dads have such a creepy sense of entitlement to their daughters’ physical affection. And of course he’ll surely consider himself the personal guardian of her…

I have no idea what that has to do with the comment you replied to, but yes, I feel that the gif in question deserved far greater infamy than it has achieved thus far.

It may seem like a joke to you, but the way our culture ties menstruation so inextricably to womanhood is something that really does hurt trans people. For those who menstruate but don’t want to be called “women,” it takes feelings of dysphoria to new levels and in many cases saddles them with a deeply embarrassing…

Well, people always assume my little doggie is a girl – because he’s just so darn pretty. 😍

Menopause, baby: It doesn’t happen on anyone’s terms. My mom had intermittent periods into her late 50s. The only way to predict these things is to ask your uterus-housing biological predecessors about their personal menstrual histories; I know my maternal grandmother went through menopause very late as well.

Well, okay, but until one of us is (willing and) able to track down your ancient comment on an unspecified Defamer/Gawker story – Kinja most definitely does not make it easy to do this kind of search — you could at least give us the gist of it right here.  Surely these stories aren’t so epically complicated that you…

In that quotation, I was referring specifically to the term “becoming a woman,” upon which I’ve already expounded here. Since I’m cisgender, though, that’s mostly something I recognize as problematic in retrospect and which I see as potentially harmful to other kids.

Um, no, it’s not insane. I know it’s common and well-intended, but I’m referring specifically to the use of the term “becoming a woman.” Not only do I think this sentiment is disingenuous bullshit, but it plays into the notion that what makes us women is having certain physical sex characteristics, and that ideology…

I don’t think it was inappropriate to apologize to the Hispanic community (rather than, say, the Italian community), given that he was making a joke about Taco Bell. His use of the word “whole” does suggest that he didn’t understand that she’s not actually Hispanic, though.

Let me clarify: She kept trying to make me share and celebrate and whatnot. Just the persistence of her suggestions was enough to make me feel deeply unsettled, though, like I couldn’t trust her to understand where I was coming from and what a sensitive subject it was. And of course she’d already told one person by…

The title alone makes it sound fantastic! I kinda want to read it just for fun. :)

Ugh, my mom bought into that stupid “shaving makes more hair” myth too, although waxing wasn’t something that I would expect her to think of. I didn’t have the traumatizing experiences you did – you poor thing! – but I was incredibly self-conscious about my leg hair and I wish she hadn’t taken so long to relent.

I was always generally premature as a kid, and when I was 8, I was terrified that I was going to get my period soon; The Care and Keeping of You was an incredibly reassuring resource. Not reassuring enough to keep me from being somewhat tortured by the experience of having a period at age 9 – my classmates didn’t know…