That seems right to me, too.

Oh, sure, you put this up now after I finally realized three months ago this is the best way to move forward. You could have posted last year and saved me hours of brain time. I only have so much brain time left, and I spent some of it on this! Thanks, though, for reinforcing what I was committed to as the best…

This saddens me. Back in the dark ages, when feminism was called “women’s lib” I read Germaine Greer. I didn’t agree with everything she said but it was that experience where you read something and a thousand things that have been bugging you for as long as you can remember are no longer one thousand unrelated things…

Yup. You have to at least disclose you got it for free and warn your readers that his/her mileage may vary.

I think it’s interesting the number of people who are interpreting the free stay as “sales” or payment. Like, I would still need money to buy food and pay my rent. Free stuff wouldn’t do it for me.

When I was a kid I was taught a lot of crap, a woman’s non verbals could tell a man she was into it, in fact, if a woman wasn’t screaming NO at the top of her lungs (and maybe physically struggling) then how was he supposed to know she’s not into it? (Tons of victim blaming, slut shaming, obviously.) And I remember…

I wondered if the reorg led to two people who are venting and maybe interacting in a personal way rather than supervisor/supervised. I once worked at a place that was going under and for the months beforehand all the barriers just kind of broke down. People weren’t sleeping together (as far as I know) but supervisors…

Thank you for telling me that. I knew I’d missed some. Still makes me a bit moist-eyed, though. I guess because it’s news to me?

Because we don’t value facts/data/education and we overvalue religious institutions (especially now when fewer and fewer people go to weekly worship). Gender equity is not just fair, it is smart, because it benefits society overall. And organized religion as a sector doesn’t do very well on gender equality. Well, I…

I feel old in the best way. I lived long enough to see a woman just address how she’s going to run a country and gestate an entire human at the same time. It’s moved me almost to tears. This feels enormous to me. I mean, I probably missed at least three times this happened before because I don’t pay attention all the…

I am about to share a Dad joke, in honor of my father who died nine years ago Tuesday (this was his favorite.) My dad handwashed his car nearly his whole life. And the first time a bird pooped on his car after the washing and hand wax, he’d say, “The birds really like my car. One of them already made a deposit.” And…

This map doesn’t include Chicago. But there is one in Chicago. I guess I’m saying, if your city or town isn’t on the map maybe do a little googling just to double check.

Loneliness is deadlier to older adults than obesity. So this seems like a good thing. Now imagine for a moment that a US President did this. Yup. Never going to happen. (Other than this, though, I am not a big fan of May.)

I believe this. I’ve seen my share of public dicks, but I know that some women seem to get that a lot more than others. One of my best friends in college used to get this more than weekly. On the street, once in class, at work, at parties, in the dorm. I mean, it was constant. I remember that she once went 12 days in…

Those biscuits are very good. My Mom loves Red Lobster and I pretend to humor her by taking her there but really? I love to take her there.

Hear, hear! I agree with this article across the board, thank you for writing it.

I’m younger than her. I remember feeling (in my youth) so gaslighted by how I was supposed to feel versus how I actually felt. Something would happen (and I’m not talking straight up assault, I’m talking some guy who was handsy or pushy or whatever code word we used at the time) and I would get out of the situation…

Yeah. I’m sick of older women telling younger women to shut up about this. I am not sure where this “When I was a young woman this was charming, so why don’t you quit your talk, makes you look weak...” comes from. Is it some new version of walking 8 miles to school through the snow uphill both ways? Because it’s not…

Yup. Paterno was the front cover of everything. Shit, Aziz Ansari is getting equal coverage to this and this involves several large institutions, more than 100 victims, a decades long pattern of abuse, and several gold medal winning, household name, gymnasts including the greatest US gymnast (and maybe any gymnast) of…

Yeah, that’s true. Simon is responsible for the recent inaction. But she’s not the only one. I, too, am an MSU alum and this sickens me.