Unsolicited advice from someone who survived a very necessary estrangement from her own mother: beware of anyone who attempts to convince you that you should be able to look past this. I wish someone had told me 20 years ago that “blood is not thicker than safety.” Thank you and good luck.

Charlotte.‏@charlotteirene8

I was linked this comment and I should have know this had to do with an article about India. When it comes to India, Jez is the very worst. I’ve never seen such blatant racism from people calling themselves feminist unless it is toward India.

When I was young, I was taught to think, “Will this cause unnecessary hurt to other people?” before I did things. It doesn’t matter what others think of me, but it *does* matter to me that I treat other people with respect.

Right? “The Wine Train” just sounds like an absolute riot; the kind of place you can totally go and drink wine with your book club and occasionally even allow noises like laughter to leave your face. They need to change this to “The Scowling Moneyed Pearl-Clutching Day Drunk White Ladies’ Transit Line.”

god why do people enjoy themselves in public when I’m trying to be a cranky mccrankster

Looks like the other women on board were traveling on the White Whine train.

Oh hooray. The first Stonewall movie is about a fictional white gay male. This erases the BLACK trans woman who actually was the first to throw something (Marsha P. Johnson, if you’re wondering). It erases all the dykes who were being raped and arrested and who fought on the front lines of basically every important…

If only it were that simple for everyone. Of course, brand new cars never have problems straight from the factory either.

Christ, car fans need to build a bridge and get over this shit. For many reasons, people choose not to drive a stick shift. Maybe they’re lazy, maybe they have a bunch of stop and go traffic, maybe they have arthritis.

If you want a manual, please be my guest. This near constant IT MUST BE A MANUAL OTHERWISE YOU’RE…

Now we just need BMW to develop a system that punches its drivers in the cock or clam when they DON’T use their signals.

I immediately imagined a cartoon SPROING noise and then “ohai”

Reading those words, in that handwriting, is absolutely gut-wrenching.

the stench from the respectability politics of everything she and so many of the black people the news interviewed yesterday was vomit-inducing. one of the things the recent incidents of police brutality and protest have shown is the class issues we have in the black community that rarely come to light. we often rally…

It is fraud for one. You are removing an owner from the title, you even mention that as a plus. That is not a plus, it’s just fraud. You are not bound by the laws other sellers at your volume are and it remove any possibility of going after you for mechanical or title issues.