It’s hard to make something happen if it’s already happened, ya know?

Am I the only one who thinks that $384 isn’t that much money for two millionaires to spend on an elaborate sex toy? Is this an ongoing joke I’m missing? I’ve spent $150+ on sex toys that aren’t entire pieces of furniture, and I’m pretty broke.

I shipped Cara Delevingne and Annie Clark (Aka St.Vincent) soooo hard when they were dating and was pretty sad when they broke up. I remember when Vogue implied that Cara was just going through a “phase” (they were quoting her parents but the way it was written made the magazine look bad, almost like they agreed with…

I’m cringing all over again. I really don’t like Naomi Wolf and place the blame squarely on her at the end of the day, but I’m also horrified that this got past her thesis advisor. It’s indicative of how bad academic advising has become over the past couple of decades as academics become more and more overburdened.

In his video pitch, he vows to combat inequality, climate change, corporate greed, and the corrupt Washington elite. 

If you’re an academic using a “BAM-POW” anecdote, you’re a bad academic. For exactly this reason. Wolf designed her thesis around the anecdote instead of doing things the right way, and it predictably ended in the only way it possibly could have. You only learn this lesson one way. 

Did she treat Pete like garbage? It sounds like they both got infatuated quickly, as young people do, and she broke out of it sooner and she dumped him. That sucks for Pete, as it sucks for everyone who gets dumped, but dumping someone doesn’t necessarily mean you treated them like garbage, does it?

LOLOL who did she treat like garbage? Also I'd say that Manchester is certainly an example of "going through some shit."

Pete... you okay?

Man, you really have some personal stuff to work out if you get suicidal over pop radio and hamburgers.

I could be wrong because I was cringing and aggressively cleaning my countertop and humming out of discomfort when I heard this, but it sounded to me that the central thesis of her book wasn’t disputed, just the central anecdote. Cultural historians often have one BAM-POW anecdote that they tell that signals, in neon…

A true to life Lion King plot would then be:

Well, it’s essentially Hamlet, so... They’re working within a certain framework.

Oh, no kidding. They should definitely fix that. At the time, I think my child brain interpreted it as there being sufficient hyena numbers to sort of act like a police force on the pride, like they’d been corraling cubs and threatening and controlling resources or something. But like... how does Simba’s presence…

True story: I just came back from a month-long trip to East Africa and while we were in the Serengeti our guide told us that male lions can’t run as well as female lions because their balls rub together and it’s very painful, apparently.

I know they were fictional lions, but The Lion King always seemed like bullshit, in that a whole bunch of lionesses, at least one of whom (Nala) could outmaneuver Simba in a fight, was helpless as the relative weakling Scar turned their kingdom into a wasteland. Somehow Simba was needed to save them. I wonder if the…

They also do this with THEIR OWN male offspring because once the cubs get to a certain age, they’re viewed as competition. Lions, man. Can’t live with ‘em.

It’s the hair. 90% of males with great hair try to coast through life without developing a personality, or hunting skills as the case may be

That’s not how the First Amendment works. It’s not simply that nobody will stop you from speaking, it’s that you won’t face legal consequences for your speech. If I write a book the State doesn’t like and they throw me in prison for it, they can’t say “Well, we didn’t ban your book, we just put you in jail. We haven’t…

You left out the part where when males run off to find a new family, they kill any cubs living when they get there, so the females can get pregnant with their babies sooner.