Thanks for the Rocky and Bullwinkle reference in the headline! I am now reimagining the Bennifer story as a series of animated line drawings narrated by Edward Everett Horton.

Side issue, but “Portley-Hanks” is one of the best hyphenated surnames I have heard lately. Now I’m going to be saying it to myself for the next few hours.

There’s a book that explains a lot about that, most effectively by documenting the “hardening” training of elite nazi troops: the aptly-named Male Fantasies by Klaus Theleweit.

why does hogwarts have toilets for Moaning Myrtle to haunt anyway? couldn’t you just relieve yourself any time, any place and then wave it away?

I have noticed that there have been some objections to other articles in this series, and I just wanted to say that, as someone with an academic and political interest in domestic space (and writers as varied as Catharine Beecher, Jurgen Habermas and Beatriz Colomina who have all contributed to theorizing it), I have…

You should also learn to pronounce “penguin” as “peng-wing” the way Benedict Cumberbatch does. 

“... these outlandish fights are outside the scope of real-world experiences. In the physical world, people simply do not normally yell as a first option in a misunderstood conversation.”

Bowling? Nuh-uh. It’s darts. A sport where you can actually compete in a tournament with a beer in one hand.

I vote we change all of their names to Nick, for simplicity.

Written and recorded by Bobbi Gentry in the 70s. The daughter, who is telling her life story, is unapologetic about the living she made for herself as a very successful sex worker, so yeah, I think that “classic country” tune by a white woman is getting a free pass that would definitely be revoked if a Black woman or…

We had the same bullshit on the west coast. BLM Vancouver, who were leading the way, were being dismissed as outsiders, or outright intruders by a mostly older white gang who were apparently super invested in the police being in uniform in pride, and also super invested in every fuxking bank and chain store having a…

Since they’re using the term “re-education” to describe sensitivity training, it seems clear that they have absorbed the Jordan Peterson idea that trans people are tyrants capable of brainwashing and suppressing free thought. Implied in this belief is the idea that discrimination against trans people is justifiable…

This is tough, because my dad had a way of being casually, gratuitously cruel, especially to my mom. He never hit me, and my mom only talks about the one time that he shoved her hard and she fell. He was shaped by a shitty youth and childhood and the imperative men in his generation had to be hard, and see that…

Thank you. There are definitely organized groups in the TERF universe who use cult techniques, the most obvious of which is “love-bombing”, where a concerted effort is made to make a new recruit feel appreciated and special with expressions of approval and affection, especially when they encounter questions or…

Regarding “masterpieces” that’s been a deprecated term among art historians for quite a long time, partly because of inflexible tendering in the english language. For instance, a painting by Artemisia Gentilleschi should properly be called a “mistresspiece” but nobody wants to do that, or refer to her as an “Old…

It must be such a great comfort to TERFs that the rapist and creep judges are on their side against trans people. Anyway, congratulations to my US friends for having this little ray of sunshine break through the relentless shitstorm for a minute.

This is a bit that a lot of people have trouble grasping, so I’ll patiently explain: Canada has a single-payer health insurance system, operated independently by each provincial government but with federally-mandated standards. This system covers essential health care, and the definition of what is essential changes…

Definitely a filthy racist.

I would be super grateful rn if our provincial medical officer would let just one RMT work for just one hour on the pinched nerve in my back. As it is my partner and I have been texting our guy for advice and he has been replying with instructions of things to (gently) try and a lot of “careful you don’t make it…

In fact, I think she cut-and-pasted this tweet from some other poor-me-they-called-me-a-transphobe transphobe whining somewhere and just swapped in “Karen” for “TERF”.