Exactly! This is some serious pagan shit, and I fucking love it. All the best parts of Christmas and Easter are pre-Christian traditions that sort of got absorbed, and this really just seems like the same kind of thing. You know, celebrating the change in seasons, blessing the crops, hoping for a bountiful harvest in…

I did it years and years ago. Donated the ponytail to Locks of Love. It was super fun to try short hair—you should go for it!

This is a “Homework on the bus to school” level of effort, at best.

Why is this a GIF? (Also, Ja Rule, eeesh, come on guy.)

Weirdly, the tire company started the restaurant guide as a way to get people to take road trips on Michelin tires.

That’s my favorite fun fact!

Yeah, for sure.

Fascinating!

Oooh, I’d love to see it!

YEP

Exactly. I think I read/heard somewhere that the creators of the show were inspired in part by the fact that something like one in five women in Georgian London was a sex worker. One in five! Can you imagine?

YES! And queer ones, too! And it’s neat how they manage to make a show literally about whoring without much nudity at all—the way they treat the sex scenes (with the men usually showing more skin than the women!) is really interesting.

Harlots is SO good so far! I’m psyched to have both that and the Handmaid’s Tale to look forward to.

I had my prom in the early 2000s, and I remember that there were only a couple girls who showed up in dresses that were tight/revealing, and even those were pretty tame. But I do remember thinking that is was ridiculously tacky.

Actually, humanity has a rich history of oppressing women.

L Ron Hubbard has been dead for a while. In all seriousness though, I think there are compelling arguments to be made that all religions are scams, but that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t make a distinction between Scientology and, for instance, Islam.

I’m not defending the Abrahamic religions. I’m saying it’s disingenuous to pretend that Scientology is equivalent to Islam.

No. You can make the argument that all religions are scams on some level, but Scientology is a fucking cult.

Scientology is really not comparable to Islam, or any other established faith with centuries of history and millions upon millions of followers.

Scientology is really not comparable to Islam, or any other established faith with centuries of history and millions upon millions of followers.