Jeeeeezus tapdancing christ! That’s awful!!

Jesus Christ. Those fucking monsters.

God fucking damnit

Yes, call ahead to the airline and ask for a wheelchair/extra support. It speeds things up considerably and puts you in different queues for immigration/security et al. The only thing to remember is to tip your handler in the US, 5USD is enough.

(I’ve gone from/to the US with a knee injury where I couldn’t stand for…

I think he’s saying that she looked like a Normal and isn’t it sad she felt pressured to become a Beautiful, but really she was cheating by using a scalpel and got what she deserved. Of course she was not a Normal to begin with, and whatever “revolutionary” fantasies he had about her being attainable for dudes like…

It’s code for “PS this is a place outside New York City”.

Yes, exactly.

I don’t think it’s required that you be on a different “side” to call bullshit on people.

Once you are raped, I mean a real rape, not a fake rape, you’ve got to wear a turtleneck, pants, and a poncho over all of that in perpetuity.

Fuck that’s totally the attitude. Like if you aren’t weeping and pouring ashes on your head for the rest of your life you must be making it up. This is a reason why women don’t tell people about their rapes.

I swear to dog, if you dig down into these attitudes it always boils down to a modern day ducking. A woman, even if the only reason you know her name is because she was the victim of a crime, is only truly innocent if she dies. If she lives, she’s still a witch and it’s somehow all her fault.

I wonder if I can convince my book club to read this in conjunction with Lean In. I’d be very interested to see how their perspectives on tech bro culture differ.

Funnily enough, the current Reddit Consensus (tm) about Pao is that she was basically the fall-guy (gal?) CEO. They bring her in, she makes a whole bunch of changes, user shit-storm happens, they fire her, bring back the old CEO, users rejoice, and in their giddy joy, they conveniently fail to notice that the new…

A friend just went this, and it was such an ordeal. A benign tumor that was so large you could see it with the naked eye and caused severe pain, but removing it was deemed unnecessary. Luckily she could easily pay for it out of pocket, but for a less privileged person it would have been awful.

I agree that pop is far too manufactured. It amazes me how shocked people are when they hear people sing live and it doesn’t sound like the radio. That used to not be *quite* so shocking. In fact, I was more shocked when it did sound like the radio. I gushed about seeing Tom Petty live for weeks because it sounded so…

Yes yes. Let’s focus on raw, authentic music culture, by watching yet another fucking t.v. network talent show.

lol. I love it when people make it so easy to see what their problem really is. The other day I was listening to a podcast in which a white woman said “Hamilton” is shit and used Eminem as her example for what a technically proficient rapper should sound like. Like maybe make your bias a little less obvious, guys.

So, understand that your friends’ parties are going to suck now, so go, be social, then leave early to have an adult dinner/movie/whatever later.

I read so much about having kids, and the more and more I read about it, the less and less I ever want kids. But then I think “holy crap Zukka, what the hell is wrong with you, do you want be to that crazy old bachelor who ends up living on the top of a mountain alone?!” and then I think “maybe I should have kids- I’d…

I feel like this plus his father's letter should be used as textbook examples of rape culture and how it persists.