Also the recipe-comment-section staple of a person who changed all the ingredients and it came out bad due to said substitutions and they blame the recipe for this: “I substituted coconut flakes for the flour and molasses for the eggs and used all-green coloring instead of rainbow colors, terrible rainbow cake, 1 out…

That’s what I thought too. Seems like it wouldn’t be too hard for a pro-gun-control Silicon Valley billionaire to just outspend the NRA to fix this problem.

Ah, so his concept of people whose lives and suffering don’t matter extends beyond women to non-rich, non-white men too. How inclusive of him!

It’s almost as if that’s THE CONCEPT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE.

or Kelly or Caitlin.

It is SO TRUE that Rick Scott resembles both Voldemort and a dick (physically and otherwise).

Men have bizarre notions of women’s weights. I’m 5'8" and 145, and dudes are often shocked when they find out my weight, like “but you don’t look like you weigh THAT MUCH,” and I’m like no, actually I do, you just have no idea what 145 looks like.

yeah, this is what i thought the research said for both men and women: peak physical beauty at 31.

yeah, it’s complicated re. rich people. totally true that the system works out better than it should for the people you named, and that the system is skewed to benefit the rich. it’s kind of like if a person (of any race or gender) reaches that level of wealth and prestige, they have a similar kind of rights to a…

There are only three groups that count as people in this country: corporations, fetuses and white men.

Ugh, I know what you mean about parenting. Only now, two decades later, will my mom straight-up say “you were really driven out of math in high school by the sexism,” and it’s nice she acknowledges it now but it also pisses me off, cause she was a grown-up then and I wasn’t, and if she saw that’s what was going on why…

Yeah, after having my childhood talent and enthusiasm for math brutally obliterated by the sexism of my high school (when I did better than any of the boys on the math SAT I was told it didn’t mean I was actually good at math, it meant I just had an “intuitive feeling for standardized tests”), I swear if I ever had a…

My son is about the same age, and I’ve noticed that since he started school my efforts to raise him not to think of women/femininity as inferior have gotten harder on a few fronts. One is that I’ve always made a point of reading him books with female protagonists (he loves Pippi Longstocking and the Little House…

I thought that for a long time but I don’t anymore. In my youth I was a chronic cheater, but with a specific pattern — I couldn’t handle breaking up with boyfriends (was too conflict-averse and afraid of directly saying hurtful things) so I’d break up with them by cheating on them. I’d always heard “once a cheater…

You might have to explain it more than once, but in my experience most people did eventually get it, and this one boss in my story was unusually tone-deaf about people’s lives that deviated from her notions of convention— other bosses understood the situation way better than she did. Also this happened about 7 years…

Yeah, as a female breadwinner I had really weird experiences with people’s assumptions. One thing was that people at my work tended to assume my husband and I were much richer than we were (if I, as a mere woman, had such a good job, well that job was surely less than half of our household income, ergo we must be…

When my kid was little and my then-husband was a full-time stay-at-home dad, I had a job where a bunch of my coworkers with the exact same job title/description as me got to do some attractive international travel to warm, sunny culturally interesting places in winter (I HATE winter) and I never got to go. Those who…

Given the point about how a lot of female academics are married to male academics, I’d be really curious to see stats about how the motherhood penalty shakes out for straight women vs. lesbians — like, clearly structural unfairness is a huge issue for mothers regardless of their partner’s gender, but how big of an…

Yeah, that rings very true re. Croatia and Slovenia. Once a French girl told me that what French people don’t like about the “American look” is that too many parts of the look are polished at the same time — like, that in France you would pair a cute sundress with disheveled hair or pair really well-groomed hair with…

Thank you! I am a Madam, avatar named after my cat.