Kudos for the Judith Krantz reference. “I’ll Take Manhattan” is yet another small pleasure destroyed by Trump, along with The Onion, taco bowls, and, you know, basic human rights and sanity.

I don’t get, or buy, the “s/he’s very proud of her/his name!” I always hear this from parents who name their kids things like Quillon or Heavenleigh Skyz. Come on. Is a child for reals “proud of” their name? Or might you be projecting, Parents Who Gave Their Kids Stupid Names?

The people I know who watch this kind of show do so because it makes them feel better about themselves and their own lives. “Hey, I may be a mess, but at least I’m not as batshit as THEM.” They conveniently ignore that there are real people, often children, involved in this kind of b.s.

I hope this means Harold Bloom will finally get his comeuppance. We’ve been warning people about him for decades.

So much of this bad behavior happens at conferences, too. I don’t know how much that influences what the school thinks it can/can’t do, but I do know of situations where the response was “Well, if it was at…

Expat in Cambridge, and last year, I would have people, usually Brits, stop me on a daily basis when they heard my accent. “You’re America? So... this Trump thing, it isn’t for real, right? It’s just for his telly show, isn’t it? People wouldn’t REALLY vote for him, would they?”

Remembering how they were about the…

I really hoped to never, ever hear Tucker Max’s name again.

They think all women are is their cum receptacles.

This is what I came here to say: contact the Freedom From Religion Foundation. They take on this exact crap all the time, with great success.

I’m reading this (in context, and I am an admitted full-on fan of the show) as not a poke about men or women per se, but how humor is constructed, as well. I mean, isn’t 90% of standup and sitcoms and Rom Coms (which is one of the things CEG skewers so well) just... one sex bitching about the other? No nuance, no real…

“Writing this novel has been a journey of discovery” claims EL James.

Does this mean she finally discovered how to make your male lead read like a goddamn serial killer?

A lot of this shit overlaps with what’s described as “white trash.” Shocking.

I’m curious about more female-specific markers. I’ve noticed a few things, like

*Is OBSESSED WITH, just LOVES “Tiffany blue” or Tiffany’s, in general
*Is OBSESSED WITH, just LOVES Coach bags
*Eats at mid-level chain restaurants on the regular
*Has…

Male poets should get similar treatments. I WANT BEEFCAKE SHOTS OF TS ELIOT AND EZRA POUND. I WANT YEATS IN A BATHING SUIT.

God. That is a whole lot of white girls.

Message: domestic violence and abuse is okay if he’s super rich. Getting married and having a baby right away is totally romantic and only helps things. YAY! </sarcasm>

If “they” want a civil war, let’s give it to them. It’s time for Bluexit. Sure, it won’t be easy, but let’s start dividing up the nation into Red and Blue America. They can have their guns and their rural flyover country that they think is “real” America, and they can build a wall around it to keep all that Jesus in…

To quote your father’s fans, ‘Suck it up, buttercup! Quit whining!”

Spencer = Dunning/Krueger Poster Child.

“Hero” doesn’t even begin to cover it.

“The basic reality is that if a woman doesn’t control her fertility and her reproduction, she doesn’t control much else about her life because her life will be contextualized by when she becomes a mother.”

Take a victory lap, Doc. And thank you for understanding.

I suspect more people are surprised to find out that he wrote the “I am stuck on Band-Aids” jingle than that he is gay.

This is exactly the conversation I’ve had with all my Republican family members.

THEM: *posts homophobic shit*

ME: Hey, actually, this is a good “teachable moment,” because you’re not considering ___.

THEM: OMG HOW DARE YOU CALL ME RACIST AND HOMOPHOBIC YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT’S IN MY HEART I AM DEVASTATED THAT YOU WOULD…