You are welcome to it! It has finally become one of those ‘charmingly awkward’ stories now that I’m old enough to be past the initial humiliation.

My metaphorical dick is competent and charmingly commanding.

He came up in my blind spot - I honestly didn’t even see him. He really was nice about it, though, and sort of chuckled as he said it. Which was good because I was mortified.

I met HRC once, on my 21st birthday. I was working at a Clinton Foundation fundraiser at the Museum of Natural History in NYC. They hadn’t told us anything about how the Clintons would enter and I just assumed they would come in the back through some super secret door or something.

I wrote something about this because it makes me so irked every time I hear it: http://fuckingkularing.kinja.com/id-vote-for-a-…

The problem with this argument - though it arrives, I think, at the right conclusion - is that it insists that orthodoxic purity is the basis for proper or ‘true’ religious adherence. I am an anthropologist and I work with the Buddhists in Myanmar you reference to understand how it is that they end up justifying…

Just adding to this, I was doing research on emerging governance structures in Syria with Syrian researchers on the ground about two years ago - just as ISIS was becoming ISIS. What we found was that people were concerned with getting their basic services met (water, electricity, food) and that they didn’t care if the…

Syria was one of the most educated (if not most educated) countries in the middle east prior to the start of the war. And that includes women’s education. I’m not dismissing the idea that empowering women is a good thing, but the rise of islamofacism in recent years is actually liked to the educated middle class in…

I would push back against this. I think there is an important difference between treating people equally and treating people fairly. When it comes to sex work, we can say that the laws should apply equally to men and women, but that doesn’t mean female and male sex workers would be treated fairly under the equal…

I think their answers to the abortion question showed this perfectly. Sanders is able to give an ideologically satisfying answer because he either isn’t aware or doesn’t worry about the very real legal framework that already exists. Clinton’s answer addressed the actual fact of the law and the real issue of making…

“I’d vote for Elizabeth Warren” is the new “I can’t be racist, I have a black friend” in liberal circles.

I am an anthropologist and I work with women involved in radical religio-nationalist movements. Women are some of the biggest defenders of the status quo, even when it seems like it doesn’t benefit them. Many women in Myanmar supported a set of laws that essentially restrict their ability to marry whom they choose,…

I certainly don’t think that all Bernie voters are sexist. I do get the feeling that many women my age or slightly younger (I’m 30) still haven’t encountered the worst bits of systematic sexism - myself included. As a result, Sander’s income inequality message resonates deeply despite it not being, in my opinion,…

That was the first thing I thought as well. I’m already constrained in my sleep comfort by another human being - why make it worse?

What am I missing here. This young woman asks Clinton who she has consulted from the Somali-American community, to which Clinton responds that she’s met with Abdi Warsame, and that she is proud to have the support of the first Somali-American elected to the Minneapolis City Council. To which the young woman responds,…

Um, anyone else notice 0:23 into the Annie Anderson video? That wholeeeee cluster of white men giving the Hitler solute as the protestors exit? I mean ... we’re on the edge here, America.

Oh, the end game is abdication. Luckily, I’m some how or other related to Wallis Simpson (my family were Montagues), so there is a precedent.

It’s the bees. If you feel really up for it you can grind your own (I do) but it’s probably easier to just buy the pre-made powder. Bonus point: if you mix it with Kusuma oil, word on the street is you have an natural hair remover. I’ve not tried, but a lot of my girlfriends swear by it.

I am a socialist, atheist, opinionated American living in the UK. I desperately want a pet pig and I subscribe to the ‘Sarah Manning’ school of fashion. I would be the royal family’s worst nightmare:

You might also look into Thanake powder or paste. It’s a tree in south east asia (mostly Myanmar/Thailand) thats ground up into a paste or dust and then either dusted on or applied in a light layer like paint. Women in Myanmar wear it on their faces mostly, but also all over their bodies. When I was living there I…