I’ve never had patience for loud drunks. What is it about intoxication that inspires one to repeatedly yell “WOOO!” at top volume?

Forget it, kshortie. With this one you can’t win, you can’t break even and you certainly can’t get out of the game.* When you think of home, best think of anywhere but here and then ease on down that way.

Dear Clover Hope,

Uzo Aduba was (is?) apparently in the running for the Good Witch and she would have been perfect. She has a great voice, obviously can act, and her kindness just radiates from her.

if he was a real man he would do push-ups with his DICK

I’m sure David Alan Grier will do fine but I had my heart set on Tituss Burgess. I wonder if he was ever in consideration? I’d love to see notes from the casting meeting for all the roles. I’m glad Dorothy is going to an 18 year old. It was really hard clinging to the illusion with Diana Ross. Or Olivia Newton John…

Haha, no absolutely not! I still have the travel size spray and once I discovered it was leaking because it had fallen on its side and I came close to tears mopping up what had spilled. It’s probably less than half full at this point. I have an eBay alert set to notify me anytime “Orange Blossom + LUSH” is on an…

Yeah, health care companies are the worst. We get to use our vacation time until we have been out long enough for short term disability to kick in at 60%. For those who haven’t purchased that option, they get to be out without pay.

Right? My company only provides what they are federally required to through FMLA, and I work at a goddamned hospital.

They actually have maternity leave? That alone puts them far above my company!

I can’t because I once shaved off the skin on the front the full length of my shin (4th grade curiosity!) and now that I’m older and a big sissy I know I’d faint in the shower and drown in a 1/2” of water if that happened again because BLOOD. I buy the Shick Intuition refills at Sam’s Club (or get a relative to get…

The same reason symphonies refused to do blind auditions for so long—because they don’t think it’s a problem. They refuse to consider that the fact that they overwhelming prefer white men is a sign of their own—conscious or unconscious—bias, and insist it’s just that white men are infinitely superior.

Just look at Nicholas Sparks. He keeps churning out the same old tired tripe over and over and yet he’s rolling in the dough.

Dude, you do realize that women have structural bias too, right? Misogyny isn’t just for men. If it were it would be much easier to eradicate. Additionally, there’s a fuck ton of evidence to suggest publishing is a highly gendered sport.

Just because the publishing industry is heavily female, that doesn’t mean that they can’t be deeply sexist when it comes to their impressions of male versus female writing, and what will sell.

“Certainly, structural sexism exists in ______, but you’re overstating it”

Margaret Atwood’s “The Robber Bride” had a professor of military history named Antonia who went by Tony-with-a-Y.... for that very reason. I’d say that sounds like a good omen. :)

Oh boohoo, it’s pretty clear from studies AND anecdotes that the publishing industry has a heavy bias AGAINST women. Don’t blame them for your inability to move past your biases, and sure as hell don’t bitch and moan about that exact bias being discussed.

Yes. I never take my car for repairs. I know they will lie to me. For some reason they do not lie to my husband even though both of us are clueless about cars.

lots of women have no trouble standing up for themselves and saying no—and then they get shot for it, or stabbed, or beaten. sometimes it’s hard to tell when standing up for yourself is actually the prudent course of action because the person you need to stand up for yourself against is looking for an excuse to…