I missed that one.

Most of this article is super on point, but I do not agree that Hermione rarely spoke to other female characters.

I mean, his whole focus has always been politics, even when he was playing a character, so to me it isn’t odd to the way he’s responding to current political news has a particular slant.

I’m not sure that it’s concern with offending pro-sexual assault viewers (is being pro-sexual assault a thing? That’s terrifying) as much as it’s a really touchy subject and the news came out that day and they had to cobble something together right before the show. Plus it seems like shit like this is always handled…

Makes perfect sense.

I’m sure in order for him to do the show he needed to have a certain amount of leeway with what he says politically, but from what I understand based on what I have been told by friends who work in television, there’s still a lot of censorship that goes on. Particularly with major networks. Playing it safe, towing a…

Not at all, we are tired of tepid! But I feel like the networks are dinosaurs in many ways (large, slow moving plant eaters as opposed to zippy little carnivores) and seem to be a bit slow on the uptake sometimes.

I wonder how much of Colbert’s response was curtailed by CBS. It’s certainly not an excuse, but I have a feeling that being on a major network tends to have a “We must appeal to the masses and for heaven’s sake, don’t have TOO strong of an opinion - think of the ratings!” effect.

It changes one’s perspective entirely. For example, at this very moment there is a meeting taking place in my living room about bike polo. Yes. Bike polo. Imagining that each of the participants is actually from the 1800s and is completely befuddled to find themselves in the present day helps me to understand why they…

I generally assume that everyone is a character from a Jane Austen novel who has somehow inexplicably been transported to modern times which would account for the amount of confusion/anger that people seem to feel in daily life. Especially when it comes to driving.

It made you want to do all of that, and yet not use punctuation?

Absolutely this. I started listening to them because of the guy I was dating and it was so annoying because he was totally in love with Alice, but then we went to see Crystal Castles live and then I was in love with her too. She’s the whole point.

This is so fucking heartbreaking/sickening and makes me wish I could go back in time to when I saw them live and make more of an effort to connect with Alice. Not that it would have changed anything, but fuck.

There was a response that went out today saying that just because someone hasn’t posted a fb status, it doesn’t mean they haven’t been harassed/assaulted: victims don’t owe you their stories. I liked this because while I think it’s important to recognize the sheer number of people who are harassed/assaulted every god…

“Just because you can’t get it up anymore doesn’t mean you get to go around being a giant dick.”

Not sure if it counts as a lie because I don’t believe she ever actually said she wrote it, but when my mom was tired of me presenting arguments in favor of whatever I happened to want at that moment in time, she would sing “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”. For years I thought it was just a song she made up and…

This! This is why people hurt themselves when they read a book on barefoot running (and decide its what they must do immediately without any kind of preparation) but have been heel walkers their whole lives.

In my experience thus far as a doula, I have not had to advocate for clients nearly as much as I had anticipated. I am lucky enough to be working in an environment where (so far) I have witnessed excellent communication skills on the part of nurses, midwives, doctors etc. That being said I am only in my second year…

I have to disagree. While I have not personally experienced this, I have colleagues and mentors who have witnessed cervical regression firsthand due to stress/fear based anxiety during a labor. Dilation slowing, labor stalling and regression of dilation are all possible when the laboring women experiences enough…

Omg Doctor Stabby. I love this.