are you talking about children or animals?????

Just because you own an animal doesn’t make it a domesticated animal. I’d lose my shit if someone brought a fucking squirrel on a flight I was on. Squirrels are not pets. 

They are wild animals. Maybe she kept it as a pet but squirrels are not domesticated animals.

A casual acquaintance stated that he didn’t like that NYRB had forced the esteemed editor Ian Buruma of his lofty pedestal, because he doesn’t like censorship. I pointed out that isn’t censorship, that is a private business holding an employee accountable for shoddy work, (and likely also for his subsequent appalling…

I’ve said this before, but currently and inadvertently they have actually set themselves up to re energize the franchise in a super cool way, and it does not involve changing a single thing about James Bond.

She does have a face to go with the vulva, if anyone is curious.

She was lacking both a head and a name, reduced to salacious parts without identity. That doesn’t sound like “dignity” to me.

Ok, full disclosure, I'm a bit stunned.  Not used to internet people admitting their mind has been changed.  So.  Thank you.  That's the sort of boost and bit of hope in the form of rational and measured conversation that I didn't even know I needed.  

That’s.... terrifying. I grew up in a house with lots of art featuring nudes (my dad is an artist and my mother loves art history) and when friends would come over, they would get uncomfortable and usually wouldn’t return. But in this dude’s case... I’d be the octopus gif nopeing outta that dorm.

It wouldn’t be problematic if everyone understood that vagina was being used as a euphemism for vulva. The problem is that we now have a generation of women who don’t know the correct names for their body parts and really think that the name of the vulva is vagina. And if you think I’m exaggerating, just ask them. I’m…

cool story. Except that precision in language is important, especially when it comes to women’s bodies, which are constantly under scrutiny of both society and law. These seemingly minuscule differences contribute to a larger laziness in dialogue and understanding, resulting in a generation of people who can’t…

I’m with you. Precision in language is important even in non-medical or non-scientific discussions.

Her life sounds like it would make a good movie.  Too bad the era of Marlene Deitrich is long gone.  She would have been perfect.

Yeah, a creepy guy in my college dorm had a giant print of this above his bed.  And he was bitter that no young women wanted to date him.  

Vulva, not vagina. The vagina is the interior, canal part. The vulva is the exterior including mound, labia, vaginal opening, etc. It’s an important distinction.

Plutonium.  Not Platinum.

The fact that he fired her right after her Emmy win seems like evidence that he did this and she rejected him.

And I’m distinctly remembering an interview in which Weiner refuses to label Don Draper, a destructive force in the lives of virtually everyone to whom he’s close, as an anti-hero because, and I quote, “he doesn’t kill people.” Something about that interview made it really clear that Draper’s aspirational elements…

“it’s not clear to me if Weiner is saying it is not impossible he harassed Gordon, or if he is saying he’s not saying it’s not impossible he harassed Gordon”

I can believe this. He probably doesn’t remember because it wasn’t a big deal to him. I think many men don’t remember bad things they do to women.