I used to know a guy who is pretty high up in Baylor’s admin. This ... sounds like his brand.

Keep promoting mediocre white guys to positions of power, academia. It’s working out really well for everyone.

Lovely Jezzies—I dedicate this story to you.

I’m not exactly proud of this but I’ve gotten a couple of people fired.

I went to graduate school for a degree in a male-dominated STEM field. The culture in the department and university was terrible. Women were routinely sexually harassed and silenced through the department. I built up a group of women in the department and fought for two hard years alongside them and other amazing…

“I hope to be the Democratic nominee and have the support of the whole Democratic Party behind me.”

I think you hit the nail on the head when you said “showmanship.” The show wasn’t just about pure vocal talent, but also stage performance. I think that’s where Donnie Osmond excelled despite being the weakest voice of the three finalists. Gladys night has an absolutely amazing voice, but she didn’t move at all on…

IMO, she was done in by poor song choice. If she had performed a newer and more upbeat pop song, I believe she would have won (or at least beat out Donny).

watched this show for the first time last night and yeah, Gladys Knight was robbed.

Crazy bitch needs to keep her tits to herself. your tit juice ain’t magic and formula isn’t poison.

Yeah... I never gave it much consideration before, but this piece made me realize I have a post-baby body without having the baby. My skin was irrevocably stretched out from being heavy in my teens. I’ve lost that weight but am now just a saggy mess.

I’m going to wear a hat like that every time I beat with a fabulous red umbrella, the next person who asks “when are you going to have children?”

Cool cool. I’ll just have my “brutally honest body portrait” done with a sack of Doritos, a bottle of my depression meds, and a copy of my PCOS diagnosis.

Preach.

100%. I got my “post-baby body” (read: a body with *gasp!* stretch marks & saggy boobs) at age 11 when puberty ran my ass over like a mac truck going 150. I went from normal kid to looking like a 32-year-old who had 4 kids in less than three months, because not only did my body mature, my face did, too. I’ve had…

I went shopping for a bathing suit after giving birth. I wanted to buy a one-piece bathing suit. I normally hate them, but I could not bear the thought of revealing my postpartum belly to the world. And this young, slim sales woman asked me why I didn’t buy a bikini, if I liked bikinis more. “I just gave birth, look…

I traded my ‘ideal body’ (that’s a lie, actually.. I never possessed one of those) for not having cancer, so there’s that.

Throughout history, women have been consigned to only one of three stages: Maiden, Mother, and Crone, with Maiden being the only woman considered nubile and attractive. When you have a young, conventionally attractive body, you generally understand the incredible power of fuckability in this culture (and perhaps every…

I proudly carry my baby weight and am in no hurry to lose it. Good thing because my baby turns 20 next month. 

I traded my ‘ideal body’ (that’s a lie, actually.. I never possessed one of those) for not having cancer, so there’s that.

That you don’t realize how much you are imprisoned by your relative bodily proximity to, and striving toward, a mainstream ideal until you decidedly “lose” your ability to perform some piece of that ideal.