Oh man yes, I forgot that JON GOSSELIN divorced Kate because he was desperate to keep his kids out the spotlight. That’s why he reached out to them via Entertainment Tonight. Jon Gosselin, America’s real hero.

More and more, we will have to navigate how to allow black and other minority persons to be part of the “American” narrative, without ignoring or erasing the black American or Hispanic American or LGBT or whatever other narrative they also belong to. Because this movie is not only a (seeminly solid) depiction of black…

Yes, that’s probably why his only recourse is to go on Entertainment Tonight. I know that’s what my cousin did when his bitch exwife (interesting how everyone’s cousin’s exwife is a bitch, weird how no one’s cousin is the bad guy) badmouthed him to her kids. That’s probably also why he cheated on his girlfriend with a…

Whenever people come in like that, I assume they’re trying to bone some young woman in their family circle and trying to convince themself it’s not gross. Leave Global Beets and all the rest of us out of your attempt to convince yourself it’s not creepy to hit on your girlfriend’s daughter, dude.

But is that not happening? I studied politics and theatre arts, so I actually dealt a lot with violent and graphic depictions of sexual violence quite often in my classes (and this was recently—I graduated in 2015). When a work was used in class that depicted violence, it’s content and purpose was made clear in the…

I feel like it’s one of those strawmen that we don’t challenge because it’s coming from a side that we agree with. But it’s even more important for us to stick to the facts. To get support for people who have a genuine need for trigger warnings or other modifications, we must be ruthless in calling out people who are…

I usually try to go for more subtle physical hints, like pointing at my vagina and signing “wanna bone?”

ur so dumb

I have literally never been in a class where violent rape was discussed where it was not extremely clear from the syllabus and class description. Is that a common problem?

If a student is sexually assaulted and does not want to report it, can they not go to a counseling center and get assistance without being forced to report? They would not be going to their professors, they would be going to the school’s center for special education needs, telling them that due to trauma they require…

I wonder how many people commenting have been an undergrad (ie living in student housing at some point, participating in clubs and student government, because the experience for grad students can often be so different) at a large, liberal university within the past 4 years, because I see a lot of people pretending…

Maybe I’m obtuse, but I don’t understand why this can’t be part of their plan with the university. If someone has a legitimate need, then they probably have documentation to go to the center for students with special educational needs and get a notification sent to their professor, like students who need extra time on…

Here’s the thing though—if we hadn’t, say, financially supported Polanski, some other director would have taken his place and got his funding and made their art. Maybe it would have been better art! Maybe it wouldn’t have! In this counterfactual, it wouldn’t have been a rapist’s art. If more people of color got…

Ah, got it now.

Why do you keep conflating “attractive” with “competent and engaging”? The only truly bad servers I’ve had in the city were hot girls.

Guessing you’re not from New York, because a restaurant having a like, noticeably more attractive waitstaff is a pretty great indicator that the service is going to be terrible and that the waiter might be semirude to you.

Amen. Although, in my case, they were the ones who moved out of state (to Arizona, which is essentially the Chicago of liberal boogeyman places). I think we got the better end of the deal.

My dad has been on the “Hillary has secret brain damage” train for YEARS and it’s funny to hear my liberal friends hear it for the first time this election cycle. Funny because if I don’t laugh at it I’d have to really consider my father’s political views and probably would never stop crying.

It’s interesting to hear you say that, because I grew up in poor, white working class Upstate NY as well, and everyone was super SUPER pro-fracking. They saw anti-frakkers as rich liberals trying to make sure their kids had no shot at a good job.

I mean also like...the Democratic platform is very much NOT Islamic...conservative Muslims tend to like pretty much the same silly things as conservative Christians and conservative Jews (politically conservative). Pity they keep infighting or we could ship them off somewhere and let them force women to sit in the…