100% this. I don't know anyone who has had a positive experience working with their Title IX coordinator. It's always the same story: department personnel and Title IX folks are initially sympathetic and make vague platitudes, then they stop responding, then they tell you they're just so sorry but there's not enough…

I mean I feel like you’re giving them a lot more credit than they deserve here. Most adults already have a pretty firm grasp on the nutritional value of a donut, this is just sensational marketing. If anything, these self righteous folks are *raising* the profile of the offer while simultaneously implying, as so many…

Just dropped our car off for some work and my partner told at least 2 different employees about his XJ...who has been at the scrap yard for 7 years now...

Yah it's straight up highway robbery. I needed the implant to keep my jaw from "sinking" (wtf...) but will probably skip the crown because it's not really noticeable and I just don't care. Definitely make the most of sofa wallowing!!

Ugh sending my sympathies. I got a tooth extracted last year and the physical pain is nothing compared to the financial. I sobbed at the dentist when they gave me the total estimate (from extraction to implant to crown). Fuck insurance and fuck dental insurance specifically.

Congrats!! I don’t generally consider myself a vindictive grudge holder, but I do periodically check in on (aka online stalk) a similarly despicable ex-coworker just to be sure her life still sort of sucks (shitty dead end job after making my team's life miserable and making my favorite coworker cry). Good riddance to…

Weird how all the older folks I know described as old fashioned believe in holding doors and not wearing jeans to work, yet somehow still could tell you sexual harassment is wrong...

Temptations I eliminate are like...bags of chips I throw away or wine I pour down the sink. If I had an issue with a temptation that became too great to manage, like the wine, I would see a therapist not shoot my local liquor store up. How is this hard for people to grasp??? I briefly worked in K-8 education and…

There was a really good NPR piece about this that I listened to a while back! How you can walk into any rich person’s house and reliably see the same shit: they hire the same couple wealth curators to build them a “safe” but boring collection. They lamented how you wouldn’t even know whose house you were in. But a…

The timing on this is particularly egregious, coming on the heels of several high profile reminders of what a war on women looks like. I guess when it's white men and cops killing women it's just a bad day, but when it's common dignity for trans women it's suddenly a war...

I watch a lot of fucked up daytime television but this.....is next level.

The deal breaker for me was when he pushed out the delightful British Train Daddy by bullying and micromanaging him so badly that he went back to London. Here’s a man who has saved numerous metropolitan transit systems, tackling a popular issue that everyone wants to see fixed...my assumption is that Cuomo was jealous…

Honestly I was partial to the other writer getting outed for being at a super spreader Biden event. Like of all the things you could skip....how about a super spreader Biden event????

Thank you! There has literally never been any confusion about how not to be a flaming asshole during a pandemic. Stay home, keep 6 ft apart, wear your mask, wash your hands. Takes like these are all from people who want to glamorize how much they “suffered” the past year, when in reality the only things they…

Goddammit ty.

Definitely - when someone I knew climbed in my window and tried to assault me, my friends and I laughed about it the next day because it was so...expected and common place. It didn't really horrify me until years later.

I worked for Harvard, I also worked for several public universities. State schools come with lower pay and prestige, but I’d take them over Harvard any day. It's just a toxic pay to play environment, where everyone is obsessed with their own ego and the students are coddled so the money from mommy and daddy keeps…

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! I absolutely ADORED this novel, and this interview. I love a novel that makes me root for and want to whack the characters up the side of the head at the same time. But also, as a queer cis-woman, I got whacked up the side of the head plenty of times while reading this. I'd be nodding along or…

Ames as a character is much more complex and empathetic even when he’s being a massive dumbass. But to answer your question, Ames hadn’t undergone full gender reassignment surgery. He is under the impression that the hormone therapy rendered him sterile (it generally does), and then only finds out otherwise when he…

Doesn’t the astronaut senator have a twin brother???.