What’s with the pattern of popular/talented female pop artist getting some man’s rap verse thrown into her single? I can’t think of a single instance where that makes a song better.

It has more likelihood of success than asking people who would have it pretty good under the Taliban to also be the ones to fight the Taliban. We did two decades of that, look where that got us. The problem with Afghanistan is that the working with and helping maintain the tribal system means working in the exact same…

I’d like to think they’ll try to rectify that now, with covert CIA ops like it was in the Cold war, in identifying women who will want to form a resistance, then training and arming them (along with LGBT groups, basically anyone not on a good thing with the Taliban in power).

You can always judge a man by how he treats his dog. It seems that not only is this dog under socialized, and under trained, but it is also unloved and suffering from lack of proper stimulation. Poor thing.

So wait, just so I’m caught up...

We all knew the talk of women’s liberation was just a smokescreen; if you couldn’t tell straight away, then lack of the Pentagon setting up women’s militias and training female led cells exactly for this current scenario ought to have been the big clue. I’d like to think they’ll try to rectify that now, with covert…

I wish you did a podcast that I could listen to and hear your smart thoughts. For real. The comment section here is janky and I can read like two sentences only and only sometimes reply and communicating with people I talk to here really matters to me because they are conversations that have meaning. For many people…

Come on Harron, let Monica grow and evolve. You really want a heads up on a fictional series about one aspect of a young woman’s life that was dictated by a man? Tell me the salacious, fucked up power dynamic relationship/sexual usury you were involved in with a professor/leader/man in a position to destroy you in…

Georgia Nicolson was such a great protagonist to grow up alongside. Those books and the Princess Diary books made me a hardcore diarist between the ages of 13 and 15. I did my best to emulate all of my favorite book protagonists in my youth, and those were the years when I was devouring both of those series.

I dunno if this will be seen, but it’s a website for that new batshit abortion bounty law here in Texas. I’ve been spamming it already, but I’m only one man. Let’s fuck their shit up

Kiddo’s girlfriend is coming down from Colorado to stay for a week, and I wonder if the poor girl is ready for hot weather, stout winds, sudden storms (which are headed this way, hello humidity) and ragweed pollen so thick you can cut the air with a knife. Still, it will be nice to give the little lady a hug - I’ve…

It has been a delightfully perfect weather day here in the Pacific Northwest. Highs under 70, mostly cloudy with a bit of sun, no rain, just a slight breeze, and I’ve been making a lasagna and garlic bread for dinner with my neighbor. She’s vegetarian so I’m using “Beyond Sausage,” which I’ve used before and it’s…

Before YA was overtaken by vampires and dystopias, Louise Rennison’s heroine navigated typical adolescence

Good memories! In middle school we were supposed to write down all the books we read, and while I was a huge bookworm, my teacher was scandalized that I was reading ones with “sex” and “thongs” in the titles.

I loved these books so much when I was growing up, Georgia is like an old friend. My summer camp friends and I all read the first book when we were 13 and tried to write and film a screenplay of it (lol). Thank goodness for the actual movie.

I dumped the first boy I ever dated because kissing him felt nothing like Georgia described. “All trembly and knees akimbo”! I owe my high standards and I guess my relationship to Louise Rennison!

A very large sewing needle. Eye first. It was sticking in the arm of a chair that I sat on. By the time that I realized what had happened it was all the way in. It had shifted slightly and was trying to poke back through the skin. I thought that maybe if I pressed on the skin around the needle that I could get it to…

I devoured Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging in 1999. I was about 12 or 13, and I couldn’t believe how FUNNY the book was. I remember reading passages out loud to a friend of mine and we’d just be snort laughing the entire time. It was so wonderful. I never did pursue the rest of the series and I kind of want to…

This article grabbed me and sucked me in! I was in 8th grade when the first book came out, and I remember taking it to summer camp and it being passed around the cabin because everyone wanted to know what I was snorting at during rest hour. When one of my bunkmates left it out in the rain, we painstakingly put it in…

Thank you for this, I felt the same way when she passed away.