wait, is “cultural anthropology” an excuse we can now use for every cringeworthy period or indulgence in our own lives?

Thanks for the explanation. It’s hard to understand the significance when you’re as unfamiliar as I. The extent of my knowledge of NYC demographics is thus: Manahattan is too expensive for anyone; Harlem is becoming gentrified; and Brooklyn is filled with hipsters.

Both are wealthy, but the UWS is more like bankers-and-lawyers-in-their-30s-and-40s wealthy, whereas the UES is (between 5th and Lex, at least) more like descended-from-someone-who-signed-the-Declaration-of-Independence wealthy. This is distinct from downtown (Soho, Tribeca, the Village, etc) which is more like…

The library’s job is to provide books to the public, not to dictate taste. I disagree with Ann Coulter and Rush Libaugh, but removing them from the library is a form of censorship that a) I believe is wrong and b) would provide so much fodder for their faux-outrage that it would get them a lot more in sales than the…

It's a better name than January!!

Sorry if I’m hogging the comment section, but really the bigger scandal is that the Times ran an essay by her in the Sunday Opinion section to promote the book whose lead paragraph declares herself an anthropologist, describes her as “a writer and social researcher in New York” but still does not have an asterisk.

They thought. She was wearing. A fake. Baby. Bump. Just to fuck with them.

True story. My sister once raised money to save the Brazilian Rain Forest despite the fact that she’s not, in fact, a marmoset.

I once got an extra 50% off 3 pairs of shoes during a hectic sale because I was polite & commiserated with the sales clerk about how shitty she’d been treated by the woman in front of me. And as a self employed person now, I will go the extra mile for clients who are kind and respectful.

Ugh my grandfather is like this, too. In fact, I am reluctant to even bring an actual problem politely to a server’s attention as kind of a post traumatic stress from watching him be a dick to waitstaff.

you need bingo cards for that. “sauce missing” “wrong sauce” “wrong entree” “forgot drinks” “missing side dish”

Yea, I’ve always found the opposite to be true; by being a really chill, nice tipping, regular I’ve gotten comped food, free coupons, etc.

Jesus. It’s bad enough that there are still people pulling the “but men have to support their families” bullshit, but to assume a woman in her 40s is being supported by her parents?! At that age, she’s more likely to be supporting them, for fuck’s sake!

It is a true story and his reasons were that he’s a crazy redneck. Some government agents came to question him about threats he made at work, and he let them into the house and talked to them to let them know that the threats were empty; but when he initially came to the door he was holding a shotgun so they didn't…

Yep. When I was about 21, I worked in a commercial aquarium as its resident salt water expert, which is the most demanding and specialized department. Later, they hired a guy from a chain pet store who barely knew the difference between guppies and gold fish. They started him at a dollar more per hour than I was…

Yes, because if even these powerful, famous millionaires are getting screwed over by the pay gap, it proves that the pay gap is in fact a thing that needs to be addressed, rather than a feminazi myth.

I’ve worked as a freelance artist for a long time and there’s a certain percentage of the industry (mostly established white men over 40) who absolutely refuse to talk about money. It makes it incredibly difficult to find out as you’re breaking into the industry whether or not you’re getting screwed. I got screwed for…

That’s entirely possible, but like you still can’t threaten to kill the president. My uncle actually threatened to kill Jimmy Carter back in like 1977, and when he applied to work on the Romney campaign in 2012 it was all go until they ran his name by secret service.

“ Im not racist! I threaten to lynch all kinds of people! Asians, Mexicans, Jews, Muslims, non-white atheists, Catholics, Gays, Lesbians, those Transylvanias what dress like women, and sometimes regular women if they don’t appreciate me for my winnin’ personality. See?! All kinds of people!”

“I don’t even see color. I just love the song strange fruit for all the wrong reasons! I like aesthetic of racially motivated old timey murders!”