Less than 3,000 people died on September 11, and in response we ended up launching two wars and creating a massive police state bureaucracy (all while claiming that if we changed our lifestyles, the terrorists win). Meanwhile, people can’t stand not going out for one single St. Patrick’s day weekend. I don’t think…

“A lot of it has to do with how we talk to each other. Compliments on a woman’s appearance, that some men, including me, might have once incorrectly thought were okay, were never okay. Not then and certainly not today.”

So the sound engineers at MSNBC can finally recalibrate their sound system for normal human volume.

Nick at Night was a great pop cultural primer.

I used to watch the hell out of this on Nick at Night.

I used to watch it in syndication. I still remember the opening music and the announcer’s voice:

She really did this.  Because in addition to being a mean jerk, she’s also wasteful and gross.

Yeah, this isn’t new, this popped up around our parts last week (yes its real, and was taken down out of shame shortly after)

My favorite theory is that a SAHM wrote this re: her CEO husband and she wanted to show him that everyone thinks the amount of work she does is FUCKING INSANE.

Different societies have different gender norms, stereotypes, expectations, taboos, etc. Something that’s considered typically masculine in one place can be seen as typically feminine in another. Or during another time in history. A society develops ideas about what is considered feminine and masculine, as well as…

It really irritates me that Rebecca left out the part where the Fresh Air producer said that they let Driver know in advance when the clip was coming up, prompted him to remove his headphones, and had the producer in New York (where Driver’s part of the conversation was recorded- Terry Gross records in Philadelphia)…

For some reason, Clint Eastwood and the other makers of Richard Jewell decided that the tragic story needed a retelling with the addition of a spicy suggestion that Kathy Scruggs fucked for tips.

This was a legitimately deep dive and so revealing. Anyone who is an addict or has dealt with one as a child of an addict will be hit in the feels multiple times.

I see what you did there.

These are white women with hate in their heart joining up with white men with hate in their heart.

I grew up around this shit.

It was on the news constantly, and your classmates have messaged me to confirm they held protests at your school.

Malcolm Gladwell really skipped over the part about being a sexual predator as a key to success in Outliers.