WTF? People say Depp is someone they would feel safe being locked in a room with? People are insane.

My husband’s workplace is overwhelmingly male and blue collar, and hoo boy is there a lot of fragile masculinity over there. So when his employer arranged for everyone on their worksite to get the Moderna vaccine at work, a lot of the guys he works with said they weren’t going to. But the funny thing is that when the…

I feel like they’re struggling with the fact that the harassment is subtle compared to a lot of their guys. If you said on Fox News, “He called women lumberjacks when they didn’t dress feminine enough,” too many of their viewers would immediately and sincerely be on his side. So, it does conservatives no good to try…

Ooh, not so with endurance. Women are actually really competitive in endurance sports, particularly ultramarathons.

Especially since transphobia is really just thinly disguised misogyny. “See, ladies, we carved you out this special category because you wanted to play the sports but you’re not actually good at the sports, and now these dudes who want to be women--which is obviously just the most bizarre, disordered thing ever…

My extended family likes to bring her up to prove that they’re not racist. Basically, “See, I do too like Black people. Well, this one Black person.”

It’s an obvious move to get your clip played on Fox News and assholes with American flag icons posting on Facebook that you’re what real leadership looks like. It seems like nothing of actual value happens at these hearings. 

It does take a lot of force, but it’s not actually as hard as you’d think. A similarly aged friend of mine broke hers when she on a short flight of stairs and hit the edge of a nearby coffee table just right. Depending on how you hit and your momentum, your body alone can provide quite a bit of force.

Back when Ireland had an abortion ban, there was technically an exception for the life of the mother. However, doctors were so afraid of some Monday morning prosecutor coming along and being like, “Well, she looks fine now so there’s no way she was really in danger and therefore you, doctor, are going to go to jail…

He came and spoke at the evangelical college I attended back in the early aughts. Really, he was super annoying. His entire lecture was full of anecdotes about times when he totally owned someone else by being more logical than them and proving that God existed/Jesus was the way/etc. He just seemed really impressed by…

Hey, hey, hey now. That’s kind of an insult to children.

Seattle PD keeps a list of people who are in danger of being SWATed. If someone calls and reports a crime in progress that would normally get the SWAT team called to the house of one of these people, they attempt to contact the person first to confirm whether or not they actually need help. It’s not a perfect system,…

When I was in elementary school, one of my much older cousins came to live with us for about a year and a half, until she graduated high school. I didn’t really have any idea why she was there back then, although I was thrilled. I now understand that it was kind of a similar situation--my aunt has always been prone to…

I think that’s the “fuck shit up” vote. There’s a subset of voters who are really cynical, who have no faith in the system to improve their lives or the lives of their children, who have no interest in actually trying to change the system, and who then decide that they just want to support the person who makes all the…

I got put on the naughty step for sharing a meme about how white people having sex look like uncooked chicken. (They do!). Someone I know got into a (in fairness, ill advised) Facebook argument with some right wing asshole. He called her the n-word. She said men like him were trash. Guess who got suspended?

Sadly, I know who Preston Arsement is. My kids like his videos but they make me want to unplug the internet forever.

It keeps them from having to worry about anyone else’s wellbeing. If they can constantly pretend that they’re actually under constant threat (while never actually experiencing any IRL threats) then they can cheerfully go about their lives secure in the knowledge that they own the moral high ground.

Wealth and power are bad for people. There’s about a fuckton of research that says that being wealthy and powerful for a long period of time often effectively causes a kind of brain damage. Being wealthy and powerful from the moment you’re born? Recipe for disaster.

If the Democrats are smart enough to organize a massive conspiracy to steal an election and leave NO evidence behind, I would honestly feel like that was a mark in their favor for being able to run the country. Good work, guys!

So, do they have an open marriage? Because she’s 74, which means they’ve been together since she was 17, which doesn’t give a lot of time for experimenting with men or with sex (with anyone other than her husband) unless they give each other space, and I sort of hope they do because that would just make her that much…