Kalief Browder’s situation enranges me so much. The New Yorker did an awesome article about him that just highlights how tragic his entire situation was. And then another follow up after he committed suicide. I shouldn’t need to say more.

Let no one say social media has no impact. This story would have disappeared without the pressure and backlash.

I recently got an implant. Does anyone need my old case?

Individual religious beliefs have nothing to do with who the state should allow to marry. If someone’s opposed to same sex marriage, they should refrain from entering one themselves and should join a religious denomination that shares their views, but there’s no reason a person who opposes same sex marriage on…

That’s what you get for being an Ashanti fan in 2015.

Non Serviam’s world: you can word things however you want and the audience is responsible for figuring out which words are important and which aren’t for the intended message to get through.

So the listener is supposed to take responsibility for the clarity of the message? That is beyond fucked up.

People need to take some speaker training. You can do it for less than $100 per year through Toastmasters.org Through training, filler words are reduced or eliminated. You can’t expect the audience to filter how they hear because you’re too lazy to learn to speak properly.

Oh, absolutely. I’m not telling anyone that they have to emulate men or act like cavemen. You can absolutely communicate in feminine ways and own your womanhood, all while not apologizing for having ideas and speaking like you know what you’re talking about and like your ideas are just as valid as anyone else’s. I…

Without going into too much detail, I basically negotiate for a living. Guess who gets results? It’s not always necessarily based on the substance of a proposal but rather on the person who best negotiates, best presents their ideas and best sells it to those present. And a lot of that is how you deliver it, the words…

This. Well, maybe discredit is a strong word but come on, get your shit together and speak like an adult and like you own your words and don’t feel the need to wrap them in all kinds of bullshit affectations.

Vocal fry is fucking awful, sorry not sorry. So is fucking uptalk. And I don’t care that it’s things women do more than me, it sounds horrible when men do it too and yes, on some levels it makes me judge that person unfairly because of how they speak. If a grown ass adult (male or female) with an education and a…

I would make the argument that so-called “feminine” styles of communication are superior and yield better results. I will say I have absolutely no basis for this assertion in terms of statistics, though.

YES! The article — and others about how women talk — presume that there is some societal norm about how humankind is to talk (especially in a professional setting) and that the norm is, of course, how men talk. We are continually told how to conform to what men do, how men act, because this is how we are supposed to…

Those are not mutually exclusive. The census form is jacked. And the Asian and Pacific Islander groups mentioned do identify specifically. At least from what I can tell as the haoli that married a Filipino.

I just can’t get into Affleck as Batman. Every time I see a pic of him in the costume, I think it’s a prank, or from a parody directed by Kevin Smith.

“You’re smarter than me, knock it off.”

Hey, here’s a crazy idea: how about we stop fucking policing women’s language? Where are all the articles about all the words men use more than women (ETA: not directed at Tracy!)? Oh, there aren’t any because anything the majority of men say is automatically accepted as the standard.

Sorry, I just want to say that if my boss started policing my every word and taking secret notes when I spoke, I might feel a little self conscious and less confident. I’m no expert, but I actually think that this might really undermine the women who have fought their way up to really difficult executive positions at…

I’m a senior member of my work group and work in a highly technical job, so when I’m explaining things to people, I regularly ask if what I’m saying makes sense. Often, people won’t stop and ask a question if they don’t understand something, so I stop and check periodically. I don’t say it in a condescending way. I’m…