So, if what you say is true and the single defining characteristic that matters is whether the world perceives you as a “baby making machine,” shouldn’t MichFest admit passing trans women and exclude (or, loudly discourage and clearly not welcome) very butch women, or women with PCOS-induced facial hair? Because…

But it’s not a cultural fair organized specifically around talking about what it was like to be raised female from infancy to age 8. It’s a cultural fair organized around and limited exclusively by femaleness. It is open to women of all ages, all races, all professional backgrounds, all religions, all nationalities,…

That’s sort of a legal oddity, though, isn’t it? I can write an advanced directive saying when and if I want to have surgery, right? And I can vest my spouse with the authority to decide whether I should have surgery.

Even assuming that you’re right and Rochester is so depressed he can’t buy or rent some other place to live after the fire, it’s very hard to believe that 15 years earlier Rochester couldn’t have bought or rented a small cottage (or built one somewhere on his estate grounds) where Bertha could’ve lived. At the time he…

oh god you devil

A home run by the opposing team? I can see a jerk doing that.

Amy’s one step ahead of you already.

You’re certainly right that asylums would’ve been a crueler fix. Rochester glosses a little glibly over the alternatives to locking her in the attic, claiming he couldn’t have put her in a different house because of the bad air (even though Rochester himself moves to that same house later).

A lot of the awful male archetypes in the Bronte’s books — especially the drunken ones — are probably more inspired by Bramwell, their brother. He was a terrible alcoholic, an opiate abuser, perennially in debt, and all-around embodied 19th century vice.

The real problem is that, in to many places, people think it’s something you should be doing on the toilet (at work, at restaurants, etc.) and give no alternatives to pumping or feeding in a restroom. But if it makes a mom happy to double-task in this way, why are people jumping on her?

This is basically the theory behind liberal arts schools. If you want a good undergraduate education, you don’t want a professor who is too busy running a lab and managing a host of grad students to be available to undergrads. At an elite liberal arts college, there will still be a lot of pressure to publish, but…

Phil needs a character to study then.

This was probably less likely to cause offense than the Land O’ Lakes maiden.

I kept wondering: why didn’t Phil try to take the wrapping off the billboard? It’s pretty clear that there’s some kind of canvas covering the billboard. It looks at least worth trying. He might have been able to use it to shimmy down from the platform, or at least to create some shade.

Yeah, but they’re not doing anything with him being a kind of weaselly, ordinary everyman. He’s just being a weaselly ass in a somewhat novel setting. It’s boring, and it doesn’t really say anything other than that weaselly people are obnoxious to hang around with.

Also, there are lots of reasons why you’d want to be able to DM a company. I see this kind of interchange all the time.

I am a self-respecting human, which means I only eat the compressed pig asshole loaf that looks appetizing.

There’s clearly a strategic posture in between “letting the shipments go through” and “firing on Iranian ships.” It seems like that the middle ground probably involves letting a few Saudi ships try to stop the Iranian ships and having a carrier as the silent partner looming behind them. The US might never declare that…

Looks like he’s about to shout, “You just got Jammed!”

When the Senate was disbanded, regional governors and Moffs took over sectors of the galaxy. Even with the Emperor, the Death Star, and portions of the fleet destroyed, one presumes each governor would have millions of troops and lots of armaments at hand.