This is interesting - I haven’t seen this in person, but it rings true. I have a DMAB friend who is NB, and they’ve said some things I find really offensive about binary gender roles - e.g., saying gender is a constructed performance and they’re no ones’ performing bear or something like that, in a way that made me…

Just out of curiosity, was this post-9/11/2001?

She was joking about them putting her in a lounge with a TV playing Real Housewives, so I think that may have been just a tad tongue-in-cheek.

The apology is b.s. - same restaurant group pulled the same stuff two years ago, with the same kind of “values of inclusiveness” apology. One can do much, much better in DC, and should.

When I looked at my now-husband’s profile, it was made up primarily of long, weird, deadpan narrative jokes and one of his favorite poems. It was long enough to be probably weird and off-putting for some people and total goddamned catnip to me.

Yeah, the idea that he would want to control women is not really far-fetched.

I just want to suggest that you don’t go to Big Hunt or Tryst (especially not on the weekend), and so stop by any of the many Jose Andres restaurants we have (Jaleo, Oyamel, Zatinya, etc) to support his fine work in supporting Puerto Rico and hating Trump. (And the margaritas at Oyamel are damned good.)

My office window faces the South Lawn and I get to see the helicopters coming in. I cry a lot.

I don’t know that she didn’t care. She very publicly filed for divorce in 2008 (I think), then there was some weird shit and then she moved out of the city with the kids and withdrew her divorce petition. This asshole seems very much like the type who would have dangled the kids over her head. It wouldn’t be a new…

The article does have a quote acknowledging that reporting may explain some of that - i.e., that sexual harassment is acknowledged as such more culturally. I have a really, really hard time believing there is less sexual harassment going on in Italy than in Sweden, no matter what is reported (I know too many women…

My 5yo daughter really loves the opening credits of the old Lynda Carter Wonder Woman, and this makes me even happier about that.

Undergrad honors thesis advisor in the mid-90s. He also had a couch in his office given to him by Allen Ginsburg - Haynes had been in our town a couple years prior, and I’m not sure that my advisor didn’t get his copy from him.

Thiiiiiiiis. She did not have to be part of this narrative. If someone asked her about it because it was her show, she could have said that she would prefer not to comment on the situation.

I saw Superstar when I was in college (in the 90s! My advisor had a bootleg copy), and I remember being stunned at how effective it was despite being Barbie dolls.

They’re also owned by a big Trump supporter now, though, so I do wonder whether there would be an extra interest in discrediting people seen as progressive.

Bad example, since historical research may be pointing to the whole thing being made up by the Church to discredit him.

 Relevant lyric: “He loves me like I’m brand new.”

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Here is the opinion piece Jenn3 is referencing.

There was an opinion piece in the Guardian re: stereotyping Eastern European accents (the meerkats are supposed to be Russian). I think it’s a bit American to call it racist (even though that writer is British)- it’s more xenophobic, which can go hand-in-hand with racism (and frequently does), but also exists on …