Seems weird and somewhat dangerous to let a cult leader (or sub-leader) out on house arrest. Cults are not known for like, following the law of the land. They’re def going to try to “free her.” And she’s def going to try to contact them, no matter what the judge says.

Almost really good pictures, actually, but I wish they’d found an angle where the nipple was hidden instead of needing to be blurred out. Ruins it! (Not that nipples should need to be blurred out, but the concept could have been much cooler than a naked torso on a bed.)

Agree it’s gross and fetishizing, but I felt that it was playing into that intentionally. And, okay, it’s always really murky territory when you get into intentionality, but Eugenides was reworking ancient Greek tropes and the fundamental fascination with/inability to see into the women’s quarters. They boys made…

this is definitely the most excellent news i will read all day, time to get off the internet and enjoy life

EVERY. SINGLE. FUCKING. TIME. JEZEBEL. FOR. FUCKS. SAKE.

ALSO “dominus ancillarum” would do just fine! I think what bothers me most is that it’s Unit 1 vocabulary and consulting literally anyone who had taken Latin in school would have yielded a better translation.

WOULDN’T YOU JUST FALL ON THE FLOOR IF THEY NAMED HIM ZEKE?

Counterpoint: I would cry of hilarity if they named him Edward, after family, and then the conspiracy theorists latched onto it...THE ROYAL FAMILY KNOWS SOMETHING, SHOW US THE ARCHIVES!!!!!!!!!!!

I’ve been trying to type variations of this phrase into Google translate with no luck. But this cult is old—probably from the FreeTranslation.com days or something, so the technology to fuck up this badly no longer exists. (free translation.com still exists, but they’ve done away with their laughable Latin…

Should it not also be “Domina” if it refers to Mack?

I’m lucky enough not to work with collaborators, but no matter what I do or don’t do, the doubt and frustration in academia is constant. I’m sorry, it sucks, I don’t know how to make it go away and I can only say do NOT trust it.

Seconding the comments that say being a third child is no excuse. I’m a third child, and while I definitely have felt neglected in the past to an extent, I can see now that it’s just because my older siblings were messy pigs and needed to be tended to more than I did. It’s very weird that your parents aren’t motivated…

CONGRATS OMG! What a beautiful creation!!

Would not touch a bar level table with a ten-foot pole (actually, I would, I have one in my kitchen and hate it), but WOULD suggest a drop-leaf table for small spaces. I’m currently using one as a sideboard, but once in a while we put one or both leafs up for a Real Dining Experience. When we move, this is the table…

I really really support you encouraging people to put their chairs at regular height. I find stools without a foot bar SO uncomfortable. I have a high top kitchen table that doubles as a kitchen work space in my rental and it is so uncomfortable that my partner and I never eat there. We prefer to balance our dinner on…

Ah, I see! I don’t think anyone wants a dress from Dillards more than they want a tailored dress, but for most teenagers it’s simply not in the budget!

I’m confused. Are you saying that you will not allow your children to wear department store dresses? What other kinds of prom dresses are there? Besides DEB?!

We had a junior prom (THE prom prom), and a senior ball. I pulled out all the stops for junior prom and my (non-romantic) date was a total peach, but I don’t really remember it besides feeling vaguely bored. But I had far more fun getting a $20 clearance dress, going stag, and bringing a pack of playing cards to the…

You can leave your wife without publicly hooking up with another woman mere hours before she is due to give birth to your baby. It can be done. There are even specialists, called divorce lawyers, who will walk you through the whole process and get someone else to serve her the papers.

Totally. I’m in the “take what you can get” boat most of the time. Like, oh, you’re trying to make the world a more equal place for all genders? Carry on. I will redirect conversations toward intersectional feminism, but I try to tailor that redirection in a way that will be heard and absorbed. Not in a way that…