SAG Awards leftovers: Thandie Newton is the bossiest of bosses:

That boy is absurdly adorable, and Millie is so precious.

I like how the thoughtful Matthew Modine’s holding her down to prevent full liftoff.

“I think it’s just because she couldn’t hear what David was saying.” He then reveals that he thought Ryder’s faces were “awesome.”

I just wanna wear one of those coats for like, an hour.

Samantha Bee is the only thing getting me through these dark days (until John Oliver gets back from hiatus), especially since Stephen Colbert sold his soul to CBS for what I assume was an ungodly sum of money.

Don’t forget the hard-hitting reporters at Christian Broadcast News.

Do you not read women writers of color?

She is a national treasue for both Canada and the US.

Long live Queen Bee.

God, I love Samantha Bee. That is all.

Directed by a man AND whoever laid out this promo pic decided “white women in front, ethnics in the back” was a fine idea

I used to take the L in the early 1980s. It was often that empty, especially in the week hours or early morning times. The L used to be the LL, a train of teeth rattling roughness with windows that opened, only a few people traveling off peak, and no air conditioning at all. Riders used to crack the windows and throw…

I got very mixed messages about intelligence vs beauty from parents and everyone around me. Thank the gods they invested in my sister’s and my educations. For a long time, I said I would trade being being smart for being pretty. No more. And I celebrate my daughter’s love of math and science and learning.

Just this weekend my mom told me about being sat down by her father at the end of her high school career and him saying, ‘well you’re smart enough to go to college, but what’s the use for a girl?’

I grew up in a very sexist family where boys were heavily favored. When I was eight and my brother was 14, I remember having a conversation at the dinner table and dropping in that Washington, DC was the nation’s capitol. My dad and brother were floored that I knew that to the point my brother demanded to know where…

you cant have met many men, then...maybe 3 billion or so, tops.

For me, being smart was looked at as being an uncool thing, even starting back in early grade school. This was the 1980s. I knew I was a smart girl, but I never wanted to come across as too smart. Kids would taunt you for being too brainy or doing better than them. You only wanted to be just smart enough to get…

Sadly, a lot of it is generational and reinforced from woman to woman. My mother was taken out of school in grade 10, since her family didn’t see the point in educating their daughter past that point. For decades she thought it was because she wasn’t as smart as her brothers. She got over that, but still held some…