It's not my biggest pet peeve, but it's not misguided, either. "Girl crush" is basically the female version of "no homo." Because as great as it is that you like and admire another woman, at the end of the day you're adding a big old asterisk to it that says, "...but not in a GAY way."

Something I think feminist theory and histories have shown pretty convincingly is that, in a lot of cultures, men have maintained power over women in part by building up and valuing their relationships with men, while discouraging women's relationships with other women. While men had systems of patronage, workplace…

I'm using my favorite method of birth control: lots of gay, gay sex.

So nobody ever talks about them, but Tom Cruise actually has two other kids (Connor and Bella) whom he adopted with Nicole Kidman back when they were married. The fact that they're adopted doesn't make him any less their father - apparently they've lived with him since Kidman moved back to Australia. The more you…

So, Jezebel has been (rightly, in my mind) criticizing the trend toward near-nudity in women's Halloween costumes, and then two women who buck that trend are accused of wearing pajamas? Neither the Cowardly Lion nor Buzz Lightyear are known for having particularly form-fitting outfits, so it seems like these women…

Not to mention lady (and not-lady) teachers and researchers of other stripes: I and other professors I know have lost access to gov't websites like the Census Bureau and the National Parks Service that we use to access up-to-date statistics for use in our classes. Oops, I guess it hurts students, too.

James Franco totally wants to be Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Both kind of pretty, both dabble in indie and mainstream films, both have faced gay rumors from time to time. But whereas JGL seems relatively quiet but then makes these smart, insightful, self-aware comments about show business, Franco is all, "Hey, I'm more than…

Gina Torres basically played a (bad-guy) superhero on Alias - she was Sydney's main antagonist at many points, a Cuban-Russian superspy named Anna Espinosa.

God, BBWhatsit, that's horrible. For what it's worth, most of us try to be sensitive to students' personal difficulties and make allowances for those while still, in general, working to maintain general standards for timeliness and quality in class work. The thing about dayman_nm's post is that I can totally see being…

FYI, there are also college professors who read Jezebel. We're already wise to the dead grandmother excuses and their ilk, but I'd never thought of this approach before. So...thanks for the heads up?

I almost never wear make-up, except once in a blue moon when I attend a professional event or a wedding (and even then, it's minimal - maybe mascara or tinted moisturizer, eyeliner if I'm feeling fancy). I've never understood how women who wear make-up regularly manage to get through the day without rubbing it off all…

Yes, many same-sex parents raising children will do better because their children are "wanted" children. However, consider that - particularly among low-income LGBT folks and people of color (and in more conservative parts of the country), gay and lesbian couples are more likely to be raising the biological children…

MIT also has the Chorollaries. Yay for music+math puns!

Re: the Buffy & Spike scene, I know! Why would someone make a gif of such an awful, upsetting moment? Kind of a different context than the rest of the gifs here, y'know?

Is it just me, or does the reimagined Cinderella look exactly like Taylor Swift?

That makes two of us! That movie is one of my guilty pleasures, and I'm proud to say I knew (of) her all the way back then. Less fortunate was her appearance in Crossroads (a.k.a. the Britney Spears movie)...I try not to think about that.

Yes, prevention is cheaper than the cure... but screenings don't prevent disease. They detect it.

I know, right? My first thought was: "Maybe he was just trying to help the nice lady fit into some pretty glass slippers?"

Is it me, or do these toxic beauty product updates sound kind of like the Joker's diabolical plan to poison Gothamites via their makeup? Any one on its own may not be so bad, but in combination...

This makes me realize: young(er) Sean Bean actually looks quite a bit like Nathan Fillion.