Whoa, really? I have seen the movie and that is some weird denialism there. Of course, there are plenty of people who argue that the angry opposition to even some of Obama’s least progressive and moderate actions also had nothing to do with race. There are a lot of people out there who think if they can deny that race…

This is what I’m talking about. That is an interesting artistic factoid about a very talented human. But do I want to live with it. God, no. I’ve got shit to do.

Oh god, no, I’d never be able to take it. And neither would he. I can’t be with someone that earnest and emotionally available all the time. We’d just constantly make each other cry, and eventually get annoyed with each other for being all weepy all the time. Plus, I would be so weirded out that his response to our…

Yeah, I think we can all be grateful it happened this way. The politics this year were already uncomfortable, but no one (save the white supremacists, of which there are apparently way more than I used to think) wants to watch a bunch of white people take Oscars out of the hands of the Moonlight team in order to give…

Something to remember is that he is almost certainly being given messaging/PR advice from professionals hired either by his management team or the studio. Assuming they all caught wind of the backlash against LaLa Land as the representative example of white privilege at this year’s Oscars, a year after #OscarsSoWhite,…

In retrospect I agree that there was way too much explaining before giving the Moonlight folks their overdue turn to speak. But I really do think Beatty chose to speak up because he knew the audience was confused and he wanted to provide some clarity in order to ensure everyone understood that Moonlight definitely…

Is any movie ever accurately identified as “the future of cinema”? I just remember really enjoying that movie and, like most Tarantino, loving that it was so different from most of what was out there at the time.

I think a dress like that would give you some of that confidence. Something about a thigh high slit rendered in such an understated fabric and color... I mean, none of us is going to hit Taraji levels but that dress is pure magic. I want it on my body right now.

Totally agree. Especially your last point about internalized misogyny and the way “choose your choice” feminism is used as a mechanism to soothe guilt and avoid self-reflection — an easy way to validate choices made under the duress of social and commercial pressure as personal and individualized and thus feminist.

This. Public employee salaries are disclosed for government transparency reasons, but it is a total mystery to me why we wouldn’t demand the same from corporations. If it’s important for me to know, as a taxpayer, what the school teachers in my district make, why isn’t it also important for me to know, as a consumer…

Ding ding ding.

I love that the first “recommended story” at the end of this article is to the Jessica Crispin interview. Though I also would have endorsed liberal excerpting of that interview’s discussion of consumerism and contemporary feminism as part of this post.

Whoa, you jumped to a lot of conclusions about my opinions and extrapolated a lot of very specific straw men out of a fairly general statement. For the record, I was not referring to the way women dress or present themselves, how they self-identify, or their sexual habits or interests.

I wish! Would love to hang out in NC for a while. Should be making it down in June for a week in the Outer Banks, provided my OB-Gyn doesn’t shut it down.

Ugh. Nothing but love for you — retail jobs are such a gut punch sometimes, and most customers have absolutely no idea. The internal promotion thing is upsetting and weird (though not surprising). So many industries have these random preconceived notions about what “type” of person best represents their products, and…

Befriend a decorator! They’ll sneak you in. All I’m saying is that as someone who has seen the Peggy and it’s ilk up close — you can do much, much better. West Elm is brilliant in their photo styling, but that shit is not going to look like that in your house, I promise.

I think it’s okay as an area of exploration — second wave feminism was imperfect and had a militancy that limited its message. And you can’t have a movement if the vast majority of humans reject it. The problem stems from the many, many people who have decided that “choose your choices” is the beginning an ending of…

Kellyanne Conway sucks, but if you didn’t give this line a good long look and then take another good long look in the mirror, then you potentially aren’t noticing that many of us (especially the white, economically privileged, hetero among us) can pull this shit when it suits us too:

Love. Thank you.

Oh my god, NO. You live in North Carolina, which is a mecca for well-made furniture. Friend, do some research on furniture markets in your area. If it were not prohibitively time consuming and logistically challenging, I would leap at the opportunity to shop NC wholesale furniture markets. The only reason I ever go to…