Amazing that a senator or congressperson can be purchased for as little as $2500. Maybe the simple, cynical solution is to outspend the NRA on lobbying. Is there no anti-gun organisation I can send my money to?

What’s your point? Women wearing a veil aren’t robbing banks, they’re just going about their business. I live in a neighbourhood were women wear veils and it’s just never a problem (I am a woman though so there is no cultural reason they would fear me or act any way other than normal around me. Maybe if I were a guy…

I’m not saying that the Kardashians have the same level of talent as the Beatles. The Beatles were crapped on early on because they were obsessed over by teenage girls. Mainstream culture was baffled and thought the Beatles were terrible, shallow people, not because of their music but because they were worshipped by…

Orthodox Jewish women wear wigs, and the men wear hats as an expression of their religion. Sikhs (both men and women) do not shave, as an expression of their religion. Banning veils is effectively like banning religious headwear or saying that you have to shave your body hair in order to integrate. It’s the most…

There’s definitely a hint of misogyny in the ‘famous for nothing label’. It’s often applied to people and things that are liked/admired by young women even though objectively these people or things have talent/value (the Beatles were in this category very early on).

I work in advertising. It’s not a one size fits all thing by any means. The industry is perfectly capable of segmenting and targeting various audiences across all sorts of media (I work on such a tool that helps do that). There’s a lot of problematic things here (like wtf do TV ads for men cost roughly twice as much…

This is definitely my favourite movie now, bumping Eraserhead down a spot, but I feel like I’m in a very small minority. I went into the cinema in a dark, misanthropic mood which probably helped. This exposes everything awful about humans in a very true and compressed way and I’ve never seen anything like it (or had…

Woman here (I LOVED the film...so satisfying). I totally empathised with Mother Earth; her confusion and revulsion at His behaviour was totally familiar (way, way too familiar; adapting, being passive aggressive, trying to resolve a bad situation with logic but others not understanding what you are trying to do, is…

This may be because I’m an atheist, but I thought the portrayal of misogyny (and all the other awful things) and religion were one and the same. I don’t think anything has captured my opinion of religion (and religious people) better than ‘mother!’. I’ve never felt so satisfied walking out of a cinema.

Well, it should have been apparent what it was about during the film, but it seems to have gone over most people’s heads. I’m not sure why because it was quite obvious. It was like Aronofsky was hitting the audience over the head with the Bible. The only people who should be confused are those that have no familiarity…

I don’t have any confirmed facts...but my take is that the lowercase m is in contrast to the uppercased ‘Him/God’. Him was exalted and worshipped and elevated while Mother Earth was disrespected and lowered (she was considered only the ‘inspiration’ not a partner by the humans). The exclamation point felt sarcastic to…

41 here, lighter shorter periods for a few years now, a single mild headache is now the only indication a period is imminent (it used to be horrid cramps). I also had bowel cancer a few years back and thought maybe the changes were due to the stress on my body for that (it made me very anemic so I thought maybe my…

Telling them that just calcifies their moronic positions further; sure it feels cathartic but it doesn’t change sponge-level minds.

At the very least, I hope Hillary Clinton threw a dish across the room when she heard this. If I were in her shoes I would have trashed the room and lit it on fire.

I’ve put like 35 days (over nearly 2 years) into Fallout 4 and I don’t really have regrets about it…which should make me sad but I feel like I have achieved something (I’ve got quite the caps empire going).

SO much THIS. I went through a Bollywood phase and now Netflix shows me almost nothing but Bollywood films in the interface, which has actively turned me off Bollywood films. I want a buffet not a firehose in my face!

Every chance I get I remind racist friends and family that a Muslim man (my cancer surgeon), saved my life, and that about 90% of the healthcare workers I interacted with were POC and/or immigrants or children of immigrants. It does seem to make them pause for thought.

I don’t think you understand how persistently threatening a lot of cis-male behaviour is for women and gay men (and straight men too, if they don’t buy into this BS coding). You are essentially making the ‘boys will be boys’ excuse with the knock it off stuff, which is not acceptable. These guys should be sat down and…

How is Baba Yaga losing?! (It’s early, but still)

I’m sorry you haven’t found anything that works consistently 😞 I’m right with you with the stress issue; funny though, the gastroenterologists never really discuss it. Glad you have support from Humira.