Also, Fifty Shades of Grey was published 6 years after he made those comments, and Magic Mike was released 10 years later. The first Twilight book was released at the end of 2005, so Trump must have been a very early Stephanie Meyer fan that it had already warped his attitudes toward women by then. Trump surrogates…

I find it weird that anti-abortion people would institute a law like that. My inpulse is that, for a woman with an unwanted pregnancy who is trying to decide between abortion and the already much more difficult option of carrying the pregnancy to term and putting the child up for adoption, adding a “public…

You’re right, but in terms of PR effect, I suspect women make up a far larger proportion of the audience of Access Hollywood than they do of staunch Trump supporters.

I’m sure he does. But he’s also a narcissistic ass who thinks he’s smarter than everyone else, and knows better than anyone else how to do absolutely everybody. So he’s the kind of guy who would disregard the advice of a tailor because he knows what he likes, and what looks good on him. It’s like my mom has a…

I used to work at a clothes store with an on-site tailor who also took in outside work. He was an excellent tailor - he was in his seventies and had started as an apprentice when he was ten. He was also going blind and his clientele were so devoted and attached to him, and pleasing his clients was so important to him,…

A book marveling at the fact that women now have jobs seems about 100 years late to print. Both of my grandmothers were the primary bread-winners for their families in the 1950s. While that wasn’t exactly typical at the time, it’s a pretty good indication that ladies in the workplace isn’t exactly a new and…

I keep seeing people suggesting this, but there is just absolutely no reason why he would have unflattering, decade-old, cutting-room-floor, accidental-hot-mic footage from a show on which he did a single guest appearance just, you know, sitting around in case he needed it some day. I don’t think the show would have…

These comments were gross, but not at all surprising.

Modern American evangelicals are essentially a totemic faith worshiping the Old Testament. They like to make reference to Jesus, but sort of in the way first year undergrads make reference to Foucault - they don’t actually know anything about the guy, or what he believed, but know they’re expected to drop his name.

Thank you Trump campaign for banning the Washington Post from your events. They’ve made fantastic use of all of the time they saved not attending them digging up all of this stuff. Seriously - of all of the many, many, MANY stupid things that campaign has done, antagonizing the Washington Post was probably the most…

Does he have a big scar on his head, or is that an intentional hairstyling choice? I grew up with a guy with that exact hairstyle, only he’d had serious brain surgery as a child.

“we had several pro surfers willing to go out and do it”

Is this like in the West Wing where Leo leaks a tape of himself bombing at debate prep to drop expectations so abysmally low that it would be impossible to not exceed them?

Thank you. I didn’t want to be the only one to point out that, for many people, the AA program and the “disease” model of alcoholism looks nearly as wacky and unscientific as Scientology, if much more socially accepted in North America.

The only issue of course, is that even people who know what they’re doing eventually fuck up. And while they accept those risks, when people pull “extreme sports” crap during natural disasters they end up putting a needless drain on emergency resources and personnel who are already stretched too thin. I live on the…

Yeah, I always wondered what the fuck her upbringing must have been like if her moral panic about weight extended to a fucking cat. Like, she thought people would judge her if her cat was a bit pudgy? But it happens. I have a cat who is part Maine Coon cat and he was a very large, very solid cat who looked even larger…

I always found it odd. But it was talked about in hushed tones among the faculty in a way that made it clear it had been a real problem at the time. I’ve considered the possibility that the problem may have been he became dependent on the relaxing effects, returned to North America, couldn’t get Kava (this was a long…

I knew an anthropologist who absolutely became addicted to Kava when living in the South Pacific, so - yeah - questionable

Some friends used to live with a woman with an eating disorder who was also terrified of her cat getting fat and who severely restricted its diet, even after it had kittens and was nursing. Luckily there were a lot of people in the house and every one of them eventually took to sneaking the cat food. The cat ended up…

That dad is awesome. The kids in the trailer park I grew up in used to build obstacle courses like this for ourselves. They were.... less safe. I entered adulthood with a lot of scars.