Yes! Everything you said plus a few things. A semi-long time ago I used to sell engagement rings and here are a few things I learned (to piggy back off of what you said to let others know, not because I’m trying to lecture you):

Because a) it’s not something she can really control, b) is a backhanded way of commenting on how she’s not ladylike, and c) it doesn’t have shit to do with her ability to govern.

Who else is looking forward to her inevitable appearance on Shark Tank where they all look at her like she has lost her mind for making such a stupid product?

I remember reading an interview with Sam Bee (or one of her higher-ups) and one of the things that they explained was that often it starts out with something as simple as those who have never had access don’t even know what the packet should look like, so their packets get dismissed out of hand at the beginning of the…

Armchair psychiatrist probably isn’t wrong. She doesn’t seem to have much going on between the ears, her beauty is all store-bought, and her only accomplishment that I can find is pleasing a magazine that is hurtling towards irrelevant. That’d make me insecure too.

IQ scores are only relevant if you are the kind of test-taker they’re meant to test. They have also been adjusted because women tended to score higher in certain areas, so the tests were “normalized” to be more gentle to men.

Someone decided to publish it. And so? It’s still not about you. Or anyone else. If anything, the flaw is that it’s a rather pointless publishing because who cares what these people have to say to each other? Their intellectual ramblings aren’t terribly worthy of examination.

My reaction is based on personal experience. I went to school with kids who thought that a high IQ and good grades made them smarter than other kids and they behaved like it. (I say they, but I should really include myself. It’s something I’ve spent a lot of time working on as I’ve gotten older because I was lucky…

I don’t think she is smarter or deeper, that’s my point. I think she’s play-acting it to prove it to the rest of us. I don’t hate her, I don’t have any beef with anyone who thinks she’s smart, I was just trying to answer the question and explain why I don’t care for her.

I don’t care for her because it seems like it’s performative. Like she wants us all to tell her how smart she is as opposed to just knowing it. Look, she’s clearly a smart woman. And I don’t really hate her, but I do find her irritating. I wish young women would be encouraged to show their smarts more often, but to me…

But I feel like it explains so much about Tyra.

Definitely. She has seen this before.

Yeah, honestly, I don’t care if what she said was out of step with tradition. Donald Trump is a historically bad candidate. She is an 83 year old Jewish woman - I guarantee you she has seen some shit. We should all be worried about his hateful, racist rhetoric. I hope she doesn’t have to fall on her sword, but quite…

What. The. Actual. Fuck.

Sure this is beyond the pale for a SCOTUS justice, but Donald Trump is a beyond the pale candidate. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is an 83 year old Jewish woman. She has seen some shit and Donald Trump rightfully horrifies her. Besides, look at the makeup of the court prior to this: mostly old white men who were always gonna be…

Smart guns are a very real idea and, if I remember correctly, the NRA lobbied against them because they felt that it would tighten the gun market. But yes, I think LEO guns should start phasing in smart guns.

Ok everyone, brace yourself for another shitty week. And also next week. And the week after that. Because it’s not going to fucking stop until we do something. We need more of a focus on limiting guns and having serious gun safety where guns are. If that gun was holstered properly and this guy got to it, we need…

I find that a super passive aggressive “okayyy...?” with accompanying questioning look works really well. Then they feel the need to explain themselves and the hole gets bigger.

This is unbelievably mesmerizing in a trainwrecky kind of way.