This is your takeaway from what you just read? 

I think it’s telling that the current Jez staff appears to know every contestant in the Bachelor franchise and all the personal details of the “waitstaff” from Bravo spin-offs yet seem largely unfamiliar with three very successful female actor/producer/directors who are all highly regarded for their work.

Seriously? It’s not like they held a press conference - they were simply living their lives/affectionate towards each other in public - which I’ve seen many non famous folks do at protests. How are we to know if it’s they’re “debut” out together, or the first time ppl noticed? We’re angry if celebrities are silent,…

I’m really confused about what the author is trying to communicate. It sorta seems like a circumspect defense of traditional masculinity/femininity, patriarchal domination and trapping oneself in a bad relationship because superficial physical and social qualities are precedent over anything else.

I’m still really struggling to comprehend how the same group who spent the eight Obama years constantly complaining about goverment overreach and questioning every decision as some nefarious action are now fucking applauding their President using the Justice Department as his personal stooge factory and firing every…

If Theseus’ ship was built by slaves, and paid workers replaced it bit by bit, at what point is it okay to ignore the original slave labor?

Love what she’s done with that room. It looks like a funeral home in Slovenia.

I cannot speak for Jezebel here, but the article has a point.

Yeah, this is where I remind people that, as someone on the high-functioning end of the autism spectrum and depression, we need to stop putting racism in the “mentally-ill” bag. Nobody’s objecting to mental illness here. They’re objecting to Ms. Cooper’s racism. And while there can be overlap between racist beliefs…

Bravo is so cute when they pretend to have standards.
It’s a start, though.

Should have added, I agree that they’re not terribly productive, other than public examples of what we don’t want more of. But we knew that, that’s why we’ve been evolving past that. Also, a one-off 20 years ago in a comedy skit is different to me than happening now in a secret Facebook group. The shouting in a public…

And not only Lifetime. The reality tv genre is like Redditt. Started out as one thing but morphed mightly into something else - mean spirited, bigoted, gratuitous - the only thing driving it is the fact that it is cheap to make. Same with all those Maury Povitch type shows - just using other people’s messy lives as…

Excellent essay.

This doesn’t have to keep happening. “Social” media is bullshit.

I know why a guy might have life circumstances to lead him to knock over a liquor store, but it doesn’t make me happy or support his decision to knock over said liquor store. And by the way, I’m happier with a guy knocking over a liquor store than the poster child of a case turning on that case that has the potential…

a) Star Trek should sue Trump’s ass for stealing their insignia. If nothing else just to fuck with him.

She killed his ability to consider himself special.   He was perfectly happy with her, Lagerfeld, all the rest. And their being monsters. Because he wanted to be a monster with them.  Once he wasn’t invited to dine on the flesh and blood of others at the monster’s table, he suddenly found his conscience.  

There are state, local, federal strategic reserves/stockpiles of various medical gear. In particular, N95 masks have expiration dates, but in reality, what goes bad is the elastic, and that mask still has suitable usages. In addition to needing a large number of them, and having supply chain and foresight issues, the…

Calling Rand Paul a “physician” may be technically true, but he’s an ophthalmologist with experience in eye surgery. It’s unlikely that he’s studied epidemiology in any meaningful way beyond whatever was needed to pass medical school over 30 years ago. For him to engage Fauci in a doctor dick-measuring contest is a…

I love the lines that McConnell draws - it’s not okay for a former president to critique a current one, but it is okay for a current president to critique a former one.