White woman travels through Europe ruminating on other white women and some white dudes and miraculously lives to tell the tale and sell the book in 2015? Tough Bitch.

When are these White males gonna stop raging? They raged against freeing Black people in the 1800’s because it threatened them in some way, they raged against the Italian, Irish and Jewish immigrants in the 19th and 20th century, they raged again against giving any equality to Black people in the 1960’s because (?),…

It honestly makes me the angriest at the racist and xenophobic assholes who think the unwashed and malevolent masses are trying to take “their” country away. Fuckers, if you want to know what it feels like to have a bunch of violent religious zealots overthrow your country and fundamentally change your way of life,…

Jesus Christ, America. You know that country on the news with the senseless killings and the emptying cities and the lunatic theocracy? You are that country now. Got couch room for two in B.C. if anyone needs it. This is so, so sad.

I have a lot of pens that have the word diversity on them.

You could build an entire house out of all that straw.

And all the KALE. Future generations will think our obsession with Kale was an experiment by the government paid for by the kale lobby. For god sakes people, spinach is just as good for you and it tastes like and has the texture of food!

This is a good article. I often get into arguments with Kotaku readers about what is “pandering.” They complain that having female or queer or people of colour main characters is “pandering.” I respond that when white dudes are the default, the culture industry is pandering to them. Very frustrating.

Literary fiction has largely been monopolized by dusty MFA programs dominated by white men. Aside from the obvious injustices of such a system, it also has another fault worth noting. THEIR SHIT IS BORING. When “serious writing” is no longer protected by the white male university system and successful writers depend…

My dad used to joke when I had braces that all I needed in addition to those railroad tracks were glasses and then I would never find a husband.

I don't think Godwin applies when a Nazi comparison is actually appropriate. I think Godwin only comes into affect when people pull out a Nazi comparison for something that is in no way like the Nazi's.

This is it. This is how the Holocaust started. The rhetoric is startlingly familiar if you’ve studied Hitler’s rise and the anti-Jewish propoganda used there and even here before we finally got involved. Trump and Carson and the rest of them aren’t funny anymore. It’s scary and people need to start calling this shit…

Yeah, if we really wanted to be a “Christian Nation” in the truest sense of the word, we’d open our borders, provide health care to anyone who needs it, food to anyone who is hungry, not judge other people, and support for families and the elderly.

I mean, that would be my guess too but I wouldn’t have put the peppy theatre kids with the black coffee and cloves crowd either.

How about... If your spouse/boyfriend/whatever neglects to do any of the “emotional work,” and you feel that it’s vital he do, then you ask him to do so?

This doesn’t surprise me. And it’s only gonna get worse. If you’ll all allow me to use the economics degree that has not landed me a high paying job and bore you a little: pre-1980 and Reagan, there were massive taxes on the rich that allowed us to have a functioning Federal government (thanks to the great FDR, my fav…

I think it’s also about leaving baby-mama alone at the time when she most needs the help. And you (figurative you, I’m not assuming that you specifically have done this) can say you’re still going to help, be there, etc. but the feelings run so high that it gets in the way of that, and she’s extra alone at that time.…

Same for the German healthcare system! We have to pay for some things like certain over the counter meds and extra things not covered, but never to the point that it drives us to such desperate deeds.

As much as people in the UK complain about the NHS, we are so incredibly lucky that we don’t have to pay for healthcare.
This is absolutely horrendous and just goes to show that paying for healthcare is not sustainable - especially when a child has a condition that can require intensive healthcare interventions.

I starred this though the more rational response (imho) is not that everyone rally around the persons so-involved (though that would be nice, doubtlessly) but that the system itself change so that, in this country, people do not fear falling through the cracks. We have no safety net at all. None. And it is shocking.