During the one horrific year I spent in Dallas, Texas, I went looking for a bat mitzvah card at a Hallmark. Again, this was a city, and a major retailer. I scoured the store, not one was to be found. I finally asked the two women at the counter if they carried bat mitzvah cards, and if so where I might find one. They…

You should have called it a MacGyv-norah. :)

Because it's the season and it's topical:

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's infanticide.

Now there is: Aunt Andrea.

I wish I'd read this before I shot the steak and ate the television.

I would say feminizing isn't exactly the right word here - 'pandering', 'marketing campaign', 'cheapening', 'consumerization'...those might be better fits.

Hey Andrea, guess what? I hate all that pink washed Breast Cancer Awareness bullshit, I hate pink jerseys (not my biz if someone wants to wear one, they just bug me), I definitely hate YOU, but I LOVE FOOTBALL! So put that in your sexist, stereotyping, smug-ass pipe and smoke it! Guess what else, dummy? They only do…

Have no fear, Fox News. The Cleveland Browns have been raising awareness for prostate cancer for decades.

My life.

I ask them about centuries of conscription including in the 1970s Vietnam war, when at the height of the feminist movement, only men were forced to get killed, they say that men started that war and must die for it. And when I ask why don't we have a more equal distribution of war casualties, I'm called a woman-killer.

It's probably the result of a long cultural history of women being objectified and presented as prizes or goals to men, and the cultural residue of woman-as-property. There are a ton of articles about how various types of media portray women as rewards men are supposed to get just for waking up every day, so when…

Is it really though? The white dudes won and they'll likely never look back or learn from this. Why would they? They got what they wanted.

I know. White men get butthurt and use their privilege to humiliate and silence a black woman. In other breaking news, Pope remains Catholic, bears do defecate in woods, and frogs asses are indeed watertight.

I guess she forgot the RNC declared racism "over."

Let me get this straight: a black woman tries to teach white men about racism. White men complain. Institution sides with the white men.

"We want her back and we are not asking for any alterations and we want her back."

2 weeks in Malaysia (cost: not too bad...if you're already in Asia!)

I got myself a washing machine.

Cello and lessons! Never played before, but after a Lumineers concert in Paris, I drunkely promised myself I´d start, and I´m actually following up on it. Note: renting instrument to start, can´t throw down 400-1000 bucks on a whim.