Same, I just finished A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara, and it almost immediately entered the pantheon of greatest books I have ever read, but it has the same problem. I would make the argument that the way Yanagihara approaches the emotional lives and relationships between men as almost alien and the way that the…

This is pretty shameful and now its going to make it harder for me to root for Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life to win all the awards this year since even though she is a woman, it’s almost entirely about the lives (and especially one life) of four male protagonists. That said, I don’t really think she chose to write…

Have you heard of Broad City? That’s also on CC. But otherwise, yes, you’re right.

Commercial use isn’t a bar to fair use (a poster for a Naked Gun sequel straight up copying a famous nude photo of a pregnant Demi Moore was fair use, for example). Not to mention that courts tend to find works displayed in art galleries to be less “commercial” than things designed to sell products and stuff (it’s…

It’s not. He’s gotten away with this multiple times, even after he was sued. It’s almost definitely fair use. No one is willing to sue him because they know he would win.

It’s because Richard Prince is a big enough deal in the art world that it will probably increase in value as time goes on. If you have the money there are far more wasteful things you could spend it on.

Did the OP argue that she was raped? He was found guilty of sexual assault (which is a category that includes but is not limited to rape). It doesn’t mean he’s a rapist, but it does show that he clearly lacks proper respect for women and their bodies.

First of all, the only thing that gets proven beyond a reasonable doubt is guilt. Second of all, this never took place in a court, only in Columbia’s internal disciplinary system, which doesn’t follow the rules of the American justice system. Finally, at least in the author’s case, the only time the disciplinary…

It was never reversed. It was dismissed (big diference), because without the author present to testify (given that she was the only other person in the room when he assaulted her) there obviously wouldn’t be enough evidence. As far as her case against Nungesser goes, the only time the disciplinary panel actually heard…

He was found guilty, after the author testified against him at a Columbia disciplinary hearing. She was present at both his assault of her, and when he was found guilty.

While drag queens typically are OK with both pronouns, typically you use feminine ones when referring to the drag identity and masculine ones when referring to the person.

I’m the same way and I definitely wouldn’t notice a dollar or so. If you were to limit it to $100 checks with normal to lower tips (if its already a high tip, the customer is more likely to notice), where the customer leaves all the receipts and you only took a dollar or so at a time, you would probably get away with…

Yeah, most people wouldn’t notice if it were like 50 cents different (especially if they didn’t take their copy of the receipt with them). Adding $8 extra dollars is pretty stupid though.

I’ve had guac with pomegranate seeds added. Still gives you the sweet/acidic fruit bite w/o making your guac watery.

Seriously, I mean I get that food particles are more of an issue with beards, but like its not like beards are any more prone to being full of nasty shit if someone has poor hygeine than anything else...

Yeah exactly, we basically spend our days walking through a giant cloud of airborne poop particles.

I get the impression that ABC intentionally excluded the Kardashians from this interview. Everytime Diane Sawyer even referred to their show, it looked like she felt dirty.

Am I wrong for seeing why that guy thought it could be a circumcision satire? The anti-pro circumcision movements aren’t really aesthetically or tonally different from the I’m a Mommy SO THERE! genre...

First, sorry about my ignorant assumptions.

Have you ever met a practicing Muslim woman? I’m not saying that the sort of forced slut shaming use of the hijab doesn’t happen, but there are many Muslim women (including Muslim feminists) out there who wear the hijab by choice and not because of concerns about what men think. Read some progressive Muslim feminist…