I agree with pretty much everything you’re saying, but one nitpick: the way you’re talking about our planet’s food surplus/waste issue makes it sound like the sensible way to solve the problem is to send food from areas where there’s plenty to areas where there’s less. While that’s probably doable on some small level…

If you refer to me or other women as “females,” you’re a prick, end of story. You might have an easier time getting laid if you actually listened to other people.

The fact that it can be used as a noun doesn’t mean that it’s an acceptable noun to use. A word can be the correct part of speech but still an incorrect word choice.

Yeah, but “female” is not typically used as a noun when referring to HUMANS. When people talk about a “female,” they’re most often referring to livestock, pets, or scientific specimens. When a person refers to a fellow human being as a “female,” it’s a red flag. So, grammatically speaking, it can be used as both a…

No.

“the hard-of-thinking”

The pledge of allegiance is definitely not said in every school. We said it in the small-town public elementary school I went to in New England, but I stopped saying it in like second grade. Then we moved towns, and I never went to a school that regularly did the pledge after that. (And on the rare occasions it was…

“All politics suck” is one of those things that people say that usually just means “I don’t read much and hate thinking about people who aren’t me.”

I think the African American Museum has a huge visitor demand relative to other museums. If 8,000 seems low to you, it might be because visitors tend to stay at the museum way, way longer than they do in other museums (like, HOURS longer). So the capacity of the building and the number of people who hang around the…

I live in DC, and I was very lucky to have the opportunity to go to this museum a few months ago. It is incredible. The volume and quality of information is enormous, and the design is stunning. It’s a powerful, moving experience to walk through the place. Just to give a sense of what this museum is like as compared…

It’s REALLY IMPORTANT how the KKK justifies their actions. You have to understand problems in order to do a good job of fixing them. Whether or not this is an appropriate exercise for 5th graders is another question, but knowing your enemy is pretty fucking crucial.

Reading this article was the first I realized this was a mockumentary and not a real thing. I haven’t actually watched it, though, so I guess I feel slightly less dumb than your work partner?

“ah” and “ar” are phenomenally unclear ways to write the vowel sounds you’re trying to describe here.

... this is a joke, right?

:-)

Electric kettles are great, stovetop kettles are great, let’s all just reserve our judgment for tea-microwavers, the savages, k?

As I understand it, the blood vessels that carry blood INTO the penis are closer to the center of the thing, while the blood vessels that carry blood OUT of the penis are closer to the surface. So if you constrict it, you’re cutting off the flow of the vessels allowing blood to LEAVE, but not necessarily cutting off…

Yes! Definitely. And given that it’s so common for women to be ignored/interrupted, that makes perfect sense.

Ira Glass definitely does vocal fry, too! Vocal fry and upspeak aren’t mutually exclusive.

The interesting thing is that you can look at a lot of these vocal patterns as adaptive—as reactions to people’s voices not being taken seriously. There’s the usage of “like,” there’s uptalk, and now there’s vocal fry. These are vocal patterns that initially became popular among young people of all genders (not just…