This stuff annoys me because there are tons of other things women do other than “sorry” and now “just.” There are entire courses taught at university linguistic departments about gender and language (I took one a few years ago) and while it’s constantly changing, speech is incredibly gendered. It’s cool that people…

Am I the only one who hates the weird gifs she creates? I feel like I’m going to be murdered for this. Like in The Beygency. I love her. So much. I just can’t stand the gifs she creates. Am I alone???

That’s what I was thinking. No “intentional” racism, just the good old American soft, internalized, diet racism of thinking of white as the default and probably having 10% of the photos used in the algorithm be minorities. Classic.

I’m currently reading Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, which centers around a young boy who escaped from Poland to Wales. It’s so good. I’m glad writers are keeping the ghost of WWII alive and that people like Winton still get recognized. It’s important to never forget.

Find your local co-op, ideally one that is community owned!!!!

Well, I married a chef, so. I don’t feel bad.

This was my experience TO A T. I was so excited to try on their beautiful wedding dresses but was very disappointed in their quality. Great accessories, terrible dresses. Having said that, I can see the bridesmaids appeal - you don’t need the most flawless dress to be a bridesmaid, but for your (hopefully) one and…

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.