So basically the way a young American man interpreted France/French culture was faulty? And there was honestly no good reason to give him a platform? And France, like any other country in the world, has problems with harassment and assault and consent and shit? Well, colour me surprised!

I knew a certain German commenter who must be nearly wetting herself with excitement over the idea of an otter zombie apocalypse.

Even though I've had to give up rugby for practical reasons, the memory of it is still a pretty strong motivator to keep exercising.

@lemdi: If you'll recall, I was petrified of breaking myself too. And always failing at everything. I still had a strange love for it.

Hooray for ass-kicking of all varieties.

@lemdi: We should set up a Tumblr fitness group of kickass women who just want to kick ass.

@pixieradio: To speak with the school of fish from Finding Nemo:

@Arginusae: I mean, Dutch and Danish tend to blow the minds of Americans, too.

I just heard about this on the radio. As the (Dutch) DJ said, "Palin is the kind of person who, if you told her The Netherlands and Holland were at war with one another, she'd believe you."

@sequined: I mean, colonizers got to define the identities of the colonized. So surely this American rape apologist should have the right to deny Parisian women consent.

Fuck all this shit.

Oh, but she's only a minor princess. That's even worse than being a commoner.

Why is she wearing a bath mat?

No costume but I went Tuesday at midnight, Thursday night, and yesterday afternoon.

These remind me of when a couple of us on Tumblr were talking about doing feminist (but for kids) rewritings of fairy tales.

Look at that technique! Great wrap-around, throwing his whole body into it. But methinks the guy in white should've looked over his other shoulder for support.

@bluebears: Allow me to refer you to this: [jezebel.com]

When my aunt got married in '88, she suddenly realized she'd lost half her guests at the party. She went to look for them and found them in a separate room watching the football final for the EURO cup between The Netherlands and Germany.

@bluebears: When the Dutch crown prince got married I requested the day off 8 months in advance.

@CandyBacon: Get a copies of the complete editions of Grimm and Andersen and you'll be surprised at just how many Western European fairy tales there are. And then there are Eastern European ones, Asian ones, African ones, South American ones, etc. etc.