I’m wondering what the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine thinks about this. The risk of losing accreditation for that program is real if they provide no educational alternatives, and I’ll bet Andre doesn’t care at all about the logistics or cost of implementing that.

On the way home once a gentleman sat down, opened up his styrofoam container of fried chicken, proceeded to eat it messily with both hands, then wrapped his greasy chicken-smeared hand around a pole to heft himself up out of his seat in order to leave.

Right? That’s where my mind went, too. I know there are a lot of pretty steep hills in the Alps, and I can see where someone could lose their footing and just slide right off a hill, but wouldn’t the first thing to do be to investigate the suspicious local glacier right next to the cow barn for fallen parents? That…

I’m having a little trouble figuring out the sequence of events here. Where were the cows that these two fell into a glacier while tending them? Was the barn out in the middle of the ice field? It makes more sense if they went out looking for a lost cow, maybe.

Honestly surprised Tucker didn’t just call up ICE while on camera.

First thought: Hoping for “sensible regulation” from this administration is...hahaha, I can’t even finish that sentence.

In my mind, the ringleader would be the penguin from Wallace and Gromit.

I think the real question is, who wouldn’t?

I like it, especially the sense of movement, but....is it just me, or does she have absolutely zero definition in the chest area? I’m hoping it’s just the angle, but it looks odd to me.

I love that essay to pieces and have actually used the “easy setting” example to explain the concept of privilege, and as I was speaking to fellow nerds, they actually got it. It’s a really fantastic read and I also recommend it often.

The crazy thing is this is actually an improvement over what we have now.

Yeah. I’m not a fan of “gals” personally, because to me it sounds like an abbreviated sidestep of “girls” in the same way “shoot” is a sanitized, twee version of “shit”. Everyone knows which word you mean but aren’t quite saying.

This is what I was thinking. Unless it’s part of a painstaking description of each tiny detail of the morning routine, putting on a bra isn’t any more interesting or unusual than putting on underwear or socks. Every woman already knows exactly how it goes and a passing mention of a morning routine is enough. Unless it…

Seconded. If for nothing else, what Lecke does with pronouns is absolutely worth the read.

It could also be Scalzi being Scalzi. He’s pretty well known as being an advocate in general on social media, and I wouldn’t put it past him to have done something like that not only to serve the book but to make a point about gendered writing itself.

I would have to know the person REALLY well to have “chicklette” not sound like an insult if someone used it to me (also because I’d immediately think of Chiclets gum)!

This, all damn day. When I bring this up in non-Jez areas of my life, all I get is “why not just use ‘guys’?” and looks of blank incomprehension.

Yep, or the ones who mansplain that I just can’t possibly understand what “infantile” means, and that “there’s a girl and boy in each of us.”

I realize I’m like, the only person in the world who seems to care about this, but can we talk about how “Girl” is still used ubiquitously to refer to grown women?

Especially since we’re all going to click on it no matter what it says.