I don’t have titles on me right now, but I recommend looking into histories of specific tribes. Books on Dakota and Lakota tribes will discuss how women own(ed) the homes and supplies, many tribes are matrilineal or matrilocal where men may be the diplomatic leaders but women determined who those leaders were and…

Learning about how recent this institutionalized misogyny is in the communities (sometimes less that 60 years) and how the government purposefully dismantled gender social structures, even starving tribes of food, livestock, and supplies if women owned property or headed households, is absolutely devastating and…

I just desperately hope that prominent native authors aren’t going to be grilled about this. It’s a serious blow to the native lit community and it’s going to be really hard to process for many people who have been friends or fans. I’m Ojibwe and this news has broken many hearts. The saddest part to me is that many…

Buster Dog says ‘Welcome to the Animals in Bow Ties’ club.

I found a clearance rack while my wife was shopping at the pet store. So this happened.

So I recently (mostly) got the hang of making these little beasties (I made a shit ton for funsies and sold them off for Valentine’s):

I can’t think of a comparable example of a big political get-together that doesn’t involve a murderer’s row of conservatives. They’ve got kooks, conspiracy theorists, fascists, crypto-fascists, neo-fascists, Rear Admirals, queer Admirals, etc. and it’s treated as a normal thing that Republicans do. Trump spoke at a…

Laura, the girl who lost her friends when she came out as “conservative”, shows how the internet has really been instrumental in radicalizing people and bringing horrible people together.

Why is it zero sum? I care about both. I don’t eat meat as well. Caring about horrific conditions for dogs in Korea is not hypocritical in any way.  

An important distinction is that dogs in Korea are often killed slowly and painfully on purpose. There is a belief that a torturous death makes the meat taste better and be an aphrodisiac via the increased adrenaline and cortisol.

They are absolutely the same kind of dogs that we take as pets here.

Here’s a mostly great breakdown about how George was a great example of healthy masculinity. He was kind, sensitive, and obviously into but not pressuring Leslie Mann.

Yeah, you know? Why not just let all public access areas be bought up and closed off to the poors.

You’re right!

yeah but how will he lord over all the poors if they can’t see the beach they can’t go on? Won’t you think about his feelings!!!

I read it as actually being the center of the piece, and Fraser’s motivation for doing the interview to begin with, but something that couldn’t be approached directly. I can see how some readers would think it was downplayed, but I thought the structure actually reinforced the message that the sexual assault was a…

The Fraser story of having a man grope him is so specific, and told with such squirming discomfort and embarrassment, that it’s kind of hard not to believe. It seems to have had a profound effect on someone who was feeling vulnerable, and that’s a hallmark of assault - the kind we have long expected women to just…

This is what I think it is: they are terrified beyond all reason that a woman could have a better time or result than a man in identical events. If, say, Lindsey Vonn raced the same hill as Bode Miller and recorded a better time, they would LOSE THEIR SHIT.