Oh man, you so hit the nail on the head with this. The original term was wrong. And since language naturally shifts, I don’t know why people are so mad about this one thread from Melissa Fabello and trying to get the genie back in the bottle when the term has morphed and been morphed for at least 5 or 10 years.

The fact that Bradley Cooper, Blake Shelton (!), and fucking Johnny Depp (TWICE!) have been declared the sexist man alive tell us everything we could need to know.

I fingerspell words too! Just some words and just sometimes (if I think about it, it’s probably related to anxiety) and I’ve also wondered if I’ve been “caught” before. I have deaf people in my family so they’d definitely catch me, but I don’t think I’ve ever done it around them.

She’s “messy as hell” because she grew up in a cult and was terrorized by Weinstein.

This is something I keep struggling with, as I want to be aggressive with my student debt but also struggle to see the point. See also: therapy.

Everyone should listen to the Citations Needed podcast on “financial inspiration” stories like this. It’s all a con to make a few people richer and make the rest of us feel like failures. https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-77-frugality-fables-and-the-poor-shaming-grift-of-financial-advice-journalism

In Canada, this wackjob would have lost his license a long time ago.

Beyond is soy free and not mushy. And I went veg (23 years ago) not because I don’t like meat but because I don’t like animal cruelty. So I’ll continue to eat Beyond Sausages a couple times a month and be very happy about it.

This is not true: https://greenstarsproject.org/2019/04/14/beyond-meat-sustainability-ethics-lca-impact/. Green house gas emissions, water, land use, energy are all significantly lower (like 0.2-50% of beef) with Beyond, etc. than beef.

So the interesting thing about Beyond and Impossible, which started the trend, is that vegetarians and vegans aren’t actually their target market--it’s meat eaters. Which is why they have a stipulation that grocery stores must sell them in the meat section, not the tofu section. They want to create something so…

The sausage is SO good. And, bonus, gluten free, unlike most fake meats, so I can actually eat it!

This makes literally zero sense (though a lot of meat eaters are weirdly offended by vegetarians eating fake meat—perhaps cognitive dissonance coming out to play?). Meat tastes good. Vegetarians don’t want to contribute to animal suffering, climate change, and avoidable poor health. So you can have all the taste and…

Cis means not trans--I think you mean queer or gay/bi/lesbian/etc.

This is a weird ass take. Aside from everything else (that everything being, it’s not actually okay to ask people intimate questions about how they have sex just because they’re celebrities), Madame X is a fictional alter-ego and asking about it is worlds apart from asking Sivan how he fucks.

If you haven’t already, I really recommend Pete Walker’s CPTSD: From Surviving to Thriving. It’s taught me so much about CPTSD and I come from working in the trauma field so was already pretty well educated but have learned so much.

Cool bi-erasure there.

What’s funny is that bisexual women with husbands ARE a marginal(ized), underrepresented part of the population. As are bisexual women with female partners. But the few media representations we get of bi women tend to be women making out with women for the male gaze. And we know that bi women have higher rates of…

This is like that interview with Hannah Gadsby where she points out that both Taylor Swift and Donald Trump can talk for five minutes without actually saying anything and people eat it up.

I give fucks because Epstein has the power to name names and there are no doubt a lot of very rich and powerful men who have an interest in stopping that.

I couldn’t possibly be an anti-vaxxer, after all, I regularly quote Albert Einstein.