I live in Wisconsin and someone recently used Christie to very effectively help me understand non-Wisconsinite’s views on Scott Walker, I think of Christie as kind of this blow hard Republican character but don’t know much about what he’s actually done and am not actively terrified at the thought of him being…

The best part of American Girl Dolls was when my twin and I outgrew them but didn’t outgrow (and still haven’t) dressing up our dogs. The cocker spaniels could only wear the hats, but still. We had so much fun putting bonnets on them and making them walk around the bed and giant armoire pretending to pick out outfits.

The fact that I’m high and had too much wine and literally can’t spell isn’t doing me any favors, I know. But still. SAMANTHA FOREVAAAAA

Guess she just couldn’t mat the cut*

YES!!! The best part about this video is that stupid Felicity, who my sister had, isn’t in it. SUCK IT FELICITY SAMANTHA WIIIIIINS

So true. Which is why eventually, when my tech career is off the ground, I want to start an afterschool program that works on homework, academics, and then includes serious training in coding, so that those kids have the option of tech should they want it. I feel like those are the sorts of things necessary. You can’t…

ThoughtWorks has policy that every year, the new hires ratio of men:women has to be 1:1. So there’s that. Not sure how they are in terms of minority hiring though.

Holy fucking shit. That’s horrifying. Even after knowing it was a prank, I’d probably still be pretty damaged in the aftermath of that experience.

When does a “prank” go from harmless fun to serious shit that will require therapy to get over? This is sort of beyond anything dumb Ashton Kutcher ever did to celebrities on that Punk’d show. When can someone sue someone for emotional damage after something like this?

That’s how I read it too. I think that, for women who simply have a thinner body type, they look, well...like how they are supposed to look, which is, for them, “natural” and not malnourished. So for Amy, were she to go down to that weight, she would look different than someone at the same weight whose body simply…

It's wild what kind of things happen amidst 400 years of state-sectioned violent oppression, amiright?

Yes! Thank you! Like yeah, I have a host of mental conditions and *shocker* it doesn't cause me to go murder people. This was racism mixed with a grab bag of other -isms, maybe some self-loathing and a whole lot of confusion. Not mental illness.

Oh, I just realized that I have sooo many of these from the few short months I’ve been in the tech world. As a moderately attractive young blond woman, the amount of back-handed and patronizing compliments I receive from men about my work is truly incredible.

SO awesome you didn’t give him another chance. You’d probably have a few more stories but hopefully you literally turning around and leaving made him pause for a moment and reflect on what he did.

My family has a spice shop, like, herbs, pepper, paprika - you know, spices. I had my first serious boyfriend in college and met his family and his mom was pretty cold. But the best part of three excruciating hours of trying to win her over came when she asked if the spice shop sold organic spices. Having worked that…

Unless you were like, a wealthy white man of privilege who was also cisgender, heterosexual and Christian. Then I can see how you’d be all nostalgic for “the good old days” cause yeah those were pretty fucking awesome for those people. I mean it still is now, but even more awesome back in the day.

“Judges must not mistake their own views for being either facts not reasonably open to question or as appropriately qualified expert evidence.”

“Does anybody know?”

I feel you. She just didn't need to dress up as a black person to be part of an anti-racism movement. White people can be NAACP members. Girl just displaced an actual black leader.

yeah gotta love the “blaming men for any of my struggles along the way” part. Love that. It really speaks to a deep and thorough understanding of feminism, patriarchy, and the history of women’s oppression.