Yeah, I get the debate that she's referencing (I've had that argument plenty of times with conservative family members), I just find her phrasing really unclear.

I'm having trouble editing my reply, so I'll just add a new one. Does it seem to anyone else like the phrases should be reversed? "A Happy Holiday IS a Merry Christmas" seems to imply "when I say 'happy holidays,' that includes Christmas," whereas I'm pretty sure she wants to say "A merry Christmas is a happy holiday,…

Haha, perfect.

This is perfect.

I'm not "afraid" of the word cunt. I accept it as part of some women's vocabulary when they've made the choice to try to reclaim it. But it *is* (despite what we might want it to be) a word that is used as a weapon against women. It is a word that's often, maybe primarily, used with malicious intent. So I choose not…

YES! I'm an English major who is fascinated by language, and I think elongation is a cool development in English usage, a way in which people have adapted the written word to reflect spoken inflections. That's pretty awesome. But when people repeat the non-elongated sound, it defeats the purpose. It just doesn't make…

I don't think she looks "plenty smart" (or, for the record, unintelligent) in this photo. I think she wearing clothes and makeup that are relatively conservative, which are signs that people often read as correlating with intelligence, despite the fact that this picture doesn't tell us *anything* about her…

Not necessarily. I'm single, but I have a board of wedding dresses, because I a. love fashion, b. hate most commercial gowns (don't even get me started on how much strapless sucks), and c. will probably make my own gown when the time comes, and I don't want to be caught thinking, "oh, I saw a dress once that had a…

Oh, god. My MOM!? Seriously?

Aside from the general perfectness of your comment, "[h]uman with a penis here" is a fantastic opening line. A+, penis-having human. A+.

The only thing, the one, single thing that is located between the headphones line (which, btw, is not ridiculous; it is something that some men actually do to women in public) and the "idiot" comment is "what if I stand too close." So, by your own admission, you are identify with the hypothetical person who thinks…

Oh, god! A nice woman you met and treated like a human being wants to be your friend? You poor thing! How tragic!

I just did that! Possibly the quickest I've ever become addicted to a show. Also, my marathon may have included 3 viewings of the body-swap episode, because Kris Holden-Ried is just the greatest human being ever.

Oh, man, I was also very much into Leo in middle school. Then I went through a period where he was kind of too pretty-boy for me, where I looked at him and sort of wondered why I had been so infatuated for so long. Then. THEN I saw The Departed, and suddenly he was back on the list. Like magic.

I know it's a joke, but this is my reaction to EVERY article/conversation/rerun that reminds me he exists. His success is one of those things in this world that I just don't understand.

Yes, but according to Allen, they just "seemed to have performed bravely." Really they were totally faking it, because everyone knows that women aren't *actually* brave; they just pretend to be when there are no men around to protect them.

TL;DR: "I don't mean to be condescending. [Is breathtakingly condescending.]"

This is what my parents did. I was very disappointed with the story as a young, Disney-over-saturated child, but now I think it's lovely and much more reasonable than the one-person-proposes model.

So true. I teach undergrads, and I'm always a little shocked by how conservative they are on many issues (I went through a conservative phase in college, too, but it still surprises me somehow).

Agreed. I can't even figure out what it's meant to be referring to—her secretiveness? Evasion of responsibility? Science denial? Xenophobia? All of her behavior is consistent with a desire to distance herself from actually governing, which is a pretty rational desire, considering the fact that most of what she does as…