Great writeup. I would just like to say how enthused I am that the pseudopenis is getting the sort of enthusiastic feminist coverage it deserves.

A good rule of thumb is to not go out of your way to be hurtful.

I think that’s a good example of why having one single way to name your kids that’s considered “the right way” is silly. If you have an uninvolved dad, why carry his name? (My partner actually has his mom’s family name for this reason.) I think it would be cool if the default was that both mom’s and dad’s family names…

You know, I actually don’t think this idea is as crazy as people like to pretend (similarly, having a different last name from your mom is not traumatic, people — I promise, I did it). I have friends who are doing it and it really hasn’t been a big deal at all.

As a Maryland native myself, I actually agree with you. But I’ve been yelled at before for making this argument (words like “busy” and “heraldic vomit” are common) so I try to restrain my homer instincts bc I want to be a uniter not a divider.

Very few people steal material from women consciously specifically because they are women. That doesn’t mean it’s not something that should be given consideration. I’m sure Scott Fitzgerald didn’t think twice about pulling Zelda’s witticisms and life into his material, or lifting from her diary for his own work. He…

Yeah, that’s where the big problem lies I think. Appropriation/theft from + silencing of female creators is a longtime issue in creative contexts. It’s a huge problem and this case can’t be looked at as a standalone simply because it tracks clearly into that long history. However, the issue of sampling and…

That’s where I think the piece is conflating too many different things. The legal system is not set up to favor men over women in creative disputes. However, there is a long history in the arts of men appropriating women’s work and writing women out of the picture. That’s a sociocultural issue (and one of economics…

Exactly. And then that gets to something else students have spoken about — how weird and uncomfortable to have adult authority figures (especially men) scrutinizing your body to decide how to react to your clothing. If you start picking apart what crop tops are/are not allowed, the end result will be girls having to…

Grizzlies are not extinct. In fact, we have quite a number of them in Wyoming.

Bears are a little pedestrian, don’t you think? I raise you one Wyoming.

Thank god other people agree with me on this. It’s not insane to expect that your party guests aren’t fucking all over your living space in public view. Nobody is making “drama” but the two people who decided their moment of sexual fulfillment was more important than literally anybody else’s privacy, enjoyment, or…

What? No. People don’t get to have sex on your stove!

But what I really want is that laugh, set over the bassline and beat from “My Pony.” Boom, pregnant?

I feel like the rhythm is like playing with fire. I mean, the daaahhh dum, daaaaah dum is fine and good, but then it speeds up uncontrollably. Basically you’re setting yourself up to recreate this iconic Bridesmaids moment:

I reject whatever metric you’re using that pushed the theme from Superman off this list. I feel like it would be perfect for setting an eager and oddly patriotic mood AND SOME OF US ARE INTO THAT OK?!?!?!

4) when Carl finally reads Ellie’s note at the end of the scrapbook

As poppet alluded to, it really does amount to littering. But the “it’s just one” thing is part of the problem. If we all excuse ourselves for doing one destructive thing each, all of that piles up into a hell of a lot of damage. It’s infrequently just one person who does these sorts of things!

I said a version of this on the first post but —

I campaigned for him when he ran for gov the first time, but honestly by the time he was in office I was no longer living in Maryland (though all my family is there), so I don’t have as much direct experience as someone like you! That said — I feel like he’s (always been) a great example of someone whose causes look…