To do nice digital art, you’d need a drawing tablet. Not an iPad or an Android or whatever, but a graphics tablet from Monoprice or Wacom or Genius or whoever. Once you have that, you can pretty much use whatever digital art program you’d like to draw. Photoshop CS2 is free, if I remember correctly. It can be a bit…

As somebody who works in a similarly hierarchical field, I think you made the mistake of being overly casual with your more senior colleagues. It sounds like you may’ve misinterpreted their treating you as an equal (which they 100% should, because you are a human being) with your being their professional equal (which…

That’s your takeaway from this post? Really?

Considering I have never been a victim of sexual assault or abuse, it would be difficult for me to be “triggered” by such content. But I know cliched storytelling when I see it.

No, men have sell-by dates but they’re deluded to think they don’t.

Oh my gosh, I’m so sorry that happened to you! I can completely relate to how you feel about this—art is so personal, if someone else messes with it or tries to tell you how to do it (in an unsolicited fashion), it can be really maddening.

I met my partner 7ish years ago on an MMORPG (heh). We were in an LDR for about two years before I moved in with him. It was worth it for us, even though our base was basically “we were in the same guild and started talking and found we liked each other a lot”. It can be tough and it is very hard to know if you should…

I met my husband online ten years ago. We had a LDR for about 4 years before I moved in with him and here we are. If you feel it, it’s worth it. It’ll be a distant memory before you know it.

Her comments weren’t phrased terribly well, but I absolutely think it’s worth talking about how gendered these forms of PDA are, in the same way it’s worth talking about women giving up their own names when they get married, even though many of them are eager and happy to do so. Women liking something, or choosing to…

I really don’t think they do. People who abuse medical services often either don’t give a fuck about that $20 copay because that’s nothing to them or don’t care because they don’t have insurance at all and have no way to pay any medical bills. There are a ton of people for whom $20 is sort of a breaking point in their…

Sometimes they prevent people in dire circumstances from seeking needed care. But more often, they discourage abuse.

You should leave without your child but with a really smug look, like you’re so proud of your billionth trimester abortion (not sure how old your child is)

“ But more often, they discourage abuse.”

Oh, do they? Citation, please. Otherwise I’m calling your bold claim bullllfuckingshit.

Seems you care more about your ASSUMPTIONS than you do actual people. Gross.

I’m a rebellious sort, so I often go to PP with my kid. When the protestors say stuff, I say “you’re criticizing this child’s mother in front of him. For Shame!” and also “I’m here for routine medical care, which is 97% of what PP does, so go sit in your lawn chair.”

Honestly, I can really only afford gyno care at Planned Parenthood, and I’m afraid to go there because the protesters outside harrass me. They don’t understand.

—Besides, short guys have every right to be furious that they’re not being selected because of their height—

Besides, short guys have every right to be furious that they’re not being selected because of their height, *especially* when women then go on to call men superficial about their own taste.

It reminds me of the whole taking your husband’s name when you get married thing. As every Jezebel article on the subject illustrates, many if not most female readers either took their husband’s name or plan to, which is perfectly understandable. But way, way too many of them angrily insist that they did so completely…

—For a man to openly reject a woman because he found her fat would be social suicide.—

Hey, can’t people just be attracted to whatever they like, they argue. Is it really discrimination to prefer a man who is tall, dark, or handsome to a man who is short, pale, and just OK-looking? Alternately, is it really so wrong to want a woman with blonde hair and big tits versus one with brown hair and smaller…