Re: that title, I might have to update the masthead.

If you will allow me to get very, very real for a minute: this hysteria over basic is really just a bunch of privileged white girls caring too much about what other people think.

They've been doing this in Paris ever since I've lived here too. It's a matter of those ancient central city buildings and incredibly pokey and winding staircases that are next to impossible to get bulky items up.

Amsterdam Canal houses all come with wooden hoists attached to the roof for this exact purpose

If Martha is the matriarch and Goop is the overachieving daughter, Preserve must be the stoner sister that lives in the basement and can't seem to find her way in life.

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

In fairness, I look *amazing* in a dress.

We've always used the proper terms with our kiddo (I'm a biologist, I'm not going to call it a wee-wee or a hoo-haa or whatever). She was then told by other kids she was saying "bad words." Her teacher started to tell her not to say those and she proudly said "My mommy says those are the right words and not to use…

Killing, eating and using their fur and other parts of the seals as the indigenous peoples of Canada have been doing for eons.

Check yourself, Mark. Octopi are ADORABLE. They're also incredibly intelligent and they will one day be kind rulers once they've enslaved humanity... I mean... uh... YOU SAW NOTHING, HUMAN!

These are great! They have a real Monty Python feel to them.

Well, I guess it shouldn't necessarily be "easy" but I don't really buy the whole excuse of using cultural conditioning to excuse this type of thinking or behavior - the type that allows people to treat another group of people as 'less than' or not wholly worthy of the full spectrum of human rights and respect. It may…

It's saying something when a person has to flee to Burma to protect her human rights.

These fuckers need to calm their Burmese pythons.

This reads like a case study in entitlement to women's bodies.

ha! Oh thanks. I spend most of my waking hours with one: glad it's paid off! ;-)

Oh, please, white-people-who-don't-know-better, do not try to befriend me for the explicit purpose of procuring a black friend. Be kind, be cool, don't be an ass and if there is a basis for friendship it will happen. Call me "girlfriend" in our first conversation, ask me to teach you to twerk or go deep on hair…

I hope that writers taking the time to publicly issue a call to arms against the people who sign their pay checks will get you to not just pay attention but to actually do something about it. I, for one, am eager to see what you come up with.

Prior to Kinja, I headed the trollpatrol team for Jezebel, as many people here know. We dealt with rape gifs, violent pornography, racism, and harassment regularly, but there was a system in place with which to have it reported and dealt with. Banning didn't usually result in the same person immediately making a new…