The Dove ads have turned me off from buying any of their products so their marketing failed on me. IDK maybe I’m not their target demographic because I already feel awesome and fierce and because of their ads I associate their products with mousy women with no self esteem. However L’Oreal’s got my number. Rationally I…

This is surprisingly good! And, it’s is inclusive without feeling like they’re just checking off a list.

But have you seen Axe’s latest? I kind of love it.

And the Dalai Lama gave a speech, today, in Sacramento.

When Caputo’s sociopath girlfriend Linda held a gun on Sophia’s wife, I was hopeful that would send him in a different direction. When he was like, “Oh, that gets me so hot!” I was disgusted beyond all measure. He’s pretty irredeemable at this point.

Many of these shows are being filmed in Vancouver these days. I wonder if there’s a significant difference in diversity in shows being filmed in Canada vs the US.

Oh yeah, for sure. Once she’s a bit older I won’t worry too much. I’m mostly worried about 8 and younger. Then she will grow strong like bear.

I’m a copy editor and am of the opinion that [sic] is far and away the most passive aggressive of edits.

If you’re still curious, I highly recommend Michael Willrich’s Pox, which is the story of forced smallpox vaccinations in the early 20th century. He goes into the science and the medicine of both the diseases and the vaccines (he talks about a lot of other stuff besides smallpox; that’s just the main pillar), and the…

I am admittedly still really emotional due to Orlando, but I have to say that your post got me all teary-eyed.

Thank you for sharing this!

I have a 7 year old who is writing a novel right now. Sometimes she screws up her punctuation. But I’m pretty damn sure she’ll be writing like this with no trouble in five years.

Then she said that by reading my response and then reading your own journal from when you were my age, you could easily tell that I was not a child, but an adult because of the way I phrase sentences.

“Kid,” wrote one. “Your [sic] not a doctor...sorry to tell you, but not everything you hear on the Internet is true.”

I love that Vogue considers Schumer’s totally unsurprising fondness for the New York Times to be a literary eccentricity requiring ethnographic contextualization:

I am still willing to try Belladonna, though

The idea that we should forcibly conscript young girls into combat, to my mind, makes little or no sense.

I just want to highlight this passage for anyone who skims or just jumps to the comments. Because truer words.

Here’s a link to Dr. Hern’s clinic for anyone interested in offering support directly to the people who work there, and here’s the National Network of Abortion Funds. The George Tiller Memorial Fund specifically goes to late abortions.