Who else finds pre-made lemonade just too sweet? Whenever I get store or restaurant lemonade it’s almost sickly sweet. Just a touch of sugar is all you need!

Female ex-GOP here. When it’s how your entire worldview is informed from birth, “brain damaged” maybe isn’t quite as accurate as “brainwashed”.

By unnecessary I’m saying (a) the Senate Judiciary Committee is the wrong place to adjudicate a sexual harassment complaint [which the incompetent/politically motivated Senators on both sides proved] and (b) the Senate Democrats had all the necessary grounds to reject his nomination but were too politically…

I vividly remember those hearings. As a lifelong Democrat I can tell you: everyone on that committee looked like a bumbling idiot. There were no heroes among the Democrats when Anita Hill testified. And I’m not at all surprised that Biden’s people tried to rearrange the facts, given that he was still contemplating a…

to be fair, it’s pretty hard to make a lot of GOP congressmen not look like bumbling idiots

I was in college when that shitshow went on. Anita Hill would have been unnecessary if the Democrats on the Judiciary Committee had had the guts to say “this is an unqualified, inexperienced, gives-no-answers-because-he’s-a-stealth-reactionary piece of crap, so no thanks” instead of trying to conduct a very untimely…

also:

I can’t wait for President Trump to break out the “whoever smelt it, dealt it” argument when discussing pollution at the G20.

“Sir, with all due respect, that’s the argument of a 5-year-old,” Cooper answered. “Every parent knows a kid who says, ‘He started it.’”

It’s a good thing I’m not here to make friends, because I voted for ordering in.

He wants to be the Yankee Vicente Fox.

Jon Lovitz once punched Andy Dick at a bar so he's always gonna be awesome in my book

It was still this way in STEM in the 90's/early aughts. I didn’t have any problems with harrassment or worse, but there was a lot of pressure to be the ‘cool girl’ and to throw anyone who refused to play the game under the bus.

Exactly. What are they supposed to do if they can't meet women at work? Go on one of the US's 2500 dating websites along with 10s of millions of other adults? Ask friends to set them up? Go to a singles bar/normal bar/speed dating/ kickball league/trivia night/soft ball league/ art and painting night/match maker/…

It reminds me of the bit Samantha Bee did: “Now, some guys may say, ‘What, does this mean I can’t even ask a woman out at work?’ And the answer is, ‘Yes. You’re at work.’”

Similarly: Male professor is an abrasive bully in class—he’s called “brilliant but tempestuous” or “gruff” or “rough around the edges” but always brilliant. Those same things would be character flaws in evaluations of female teachers (“mean” “bitchy”) and would be cause for discounting her brilliance. But the male…

Right? I mean, even if you find your bona fide soulmate, why the fuck is it so hard to wait one semester?

Stop. sleeping. with. your students. period. How is this hard????? You should not sleep with people you are teaching and/or have substantial power over. I get it your students are hot 0r whatever. You are a grown ass adult and know better. Stop sleeping with your damn students*

*note: this message is for all teachers,…

An important literary man expresses his feelings: he’s a genius. A woman does it: she’s a hack, put that lady in a pink cover and call it chick lit.