My friend had to explain the same thing to one of her college roommates. It’s impossible to shelter someone that much if they want to learn what’s out there, but very easy to shelter someone who is fine with being sheltered. 

Kim’s other, much better come-back, not mentioned here for some reason, was to post CGM’s quite suggestive Nylon cover. It would have been more effective if she’d skipped the More Famous Than You taunting, which was obnoxious enough that people whined about bullying when they should have been eye rolling at CGM’s…

The best burger topping I have ever encountered was the mango-chili sauce at Blue 9 Burger in NYC. RIP. Both locations closed down, apparently due to health code violations. I have never had anything quite like that sauce anywhere else, and I have never tasted a burger that wouldn’t be improved by it. As in, every…

Collectives like you’re describing exist in lots of places — but Nevada law makes it basically impossible for them to exist legally in the US. The type of collective you’re describing is illegal in the UK, too, even though sex work is not criminalized there. If just two sex workers share an incall they can (and often…

I read an article a while back arguing that shellfish are actually vegan. I don’t know whether or not the author was himself vegan but he found at least a couple vegans who agreed with him. No central nervous system = it might as well be a potato.

Counterpoint: as an IPA drinker who starts to feel a touch too heavy after a couple of pints, a light but non-sweet drink is a goddamn lifesaver.

TERF is specifically used to describe people who use feminism as an excuse to be transphobic, separate from run-of-the-mill transphobes. Feminism has a looooooong history of transphobia and it’s silly to claim that writers whose work has been published and widely approved of by the larger feminist community shouldn’t…

A specific thing I’ve noticed about rich people is that they’re often so used to dining in nicer establishments — and often do so on impulse, rather than planning a splurge dinner the way a less wealthy person might — that they frequently show up very casually dressed.

I’m reading through the comments on this post and am kinda surprised no one else has gone with the incredibly simple solution of black sheets. Good for the occasional sleep-leaks too. Just wash them and go about your life with no concerns about stains.

It’s certainly not memorable. I didn’t like her wedding dress or her reception dress and those are the only outfits I’d previously seen her in that I’ve ever registered any feelings about whatsoever. I just googled to see her outfits and none of them are particularly special. Some of them are bad. Most of them are…

I know there are plenty of women who hate condoms and are willing to be reckless about them during casual sex but that attitude is so, so much more prevalent among men. A fear-mongering campaign aimed at men would probably be a lot more effective but I can’t think of a good way to do that without stigmatizing STIs…

I was slightly disappointed to see Shonda get it — I’ve never been able to really get into any of her shows, but I was psyched to see the Anna Delvey story on screen. Shonda’s style doesn’t seem like the best fit, but I’ll give it a go anyway.

FOSTA/SESTA was actually opposed by a number of anti-trafficking orgs on the basis that it would both make trafficking victims harder to locate and also that it would make conditions far worse for people currently being trafficked. Anyone currently being sex trafficked in the US had their life get much harder when the…

Well duh, but my point is a really don’t care about civ dating site users being forced to interact with — *gasp* — sex workers when they did nothing about SESTA/FOSTA when they had a chance.

Then maybe those consumers should have called their goddamn representatives before SESTA/FOSTA went to vote.

I really need to watch this show.

I rarely salt anything, but you can pry the pepper from my cold dead hands. I love fresh ground pepper but I hate that they usually take the pepper grinder away after standing there, in awe, as I proceed to use way more of it than anyone but me thinks is reasonable.

Any suggestion of escorts or sex robots is taking incels at their word and accepting that lack of sex is the actual problem and that providing them with a sexual release would solve their problems. It wouldn’t. If your average incel landed the loving virginal girlfriend of his dreams he’d more likely than not become…

Maybe, but a lot of her designs are extremely pretty and highly red carpet-appropriate.

Okay, fine. If I were unaware that I’d gotten a job I was well-qualified for because someone was abusively coerced into giving it to me, I can’t say I’d feel terribly different about it. I’d expect blowback and understand it but I would still resent it. I get the sense a lot of people would be unhappy with anything…