I am mildly annoyed if I exit the shower and the toilet cover is open, because I will inevitably be flinging water around as I begin to towel off, which means water will get on the seat, which means the next time I sit on the toilet my thighs will get wet which will give me the feeling that I might have pee on my…

If you hold it up to your ear, you can hear the echo of at least six painful PR meetings.

“Female-presenting nipples” is an all-time great for clumsy corporate wokeness.

It’s not really a question of why women would aspire to having it all, so much as what women need to do to escape the harsh societal judgement of having only a *part* of “it”. The whole song and dance of whore v. virgin, job v. stay-at-home, kids v. no kids, blah blah blah blah blah. The only way women can “win” is…

My middle school guidance counselor said I’d never finish high school because I didn't have great grades. Not only did I finish high school AND college, but I have a graduate degree with work experience in all three branches of the federal government. I went ballistic when she and another teacher who bullied me tried…

And it’s not always enough to lean in, because that shit doesn’t work all the time.

Every month there’s a story involving some guy trying to impress his wife or wife-to-be with a bungled marriage proposal or gender reveal party. These incidents range from the unfortunate (this story) to the catastrophic (gender reveal party explosion igniting the Arizona brushfire).

They are huge reminders that power corrupts and absolute power combined with eternal life corrupts beyond comprehension. The Greeks thought a lot about that. See Plato’s story on the ring of Gyges (invisibility power) and how it can corrupt because you can commit crimes without being seen.

I thought pretty much every Greek/Roman male god was at least somewhat rape-y. Rape-ey? Rape-ish?

Someone plagiarized from my college paper for his MA! Six years later I finally called his school and confronted him via email. The bastard threatened to sue me after they revoked his masters!

I have a friend who teaches at a uni and she had a student who had been given an extension on their assignment so they just had to email it to her directly. When they did they accidentally forwarded the entire convo thread of them buying the essay from someone, including haggling over price!

Disembodied sunglasses

I dunno, I think having the words she stole permanently tattooed on her is...

if i wrote a poem, someone plagiarized it, and then had the gd audacity to get a tattoo of my words on their body??? i’d have a very hard time being as civil as mckibbens.

I got my BA and MA in writing and I could NOT believe how many people plagiarized work in the time I was there, most of whom totally got busted. It was embarrassing enough when people stole from famous novelists but a year after I graduated, someone turned in a paper I WROTE with like one word in every sentence…

Don’t let your exterminator off the hook until you know for sure every last mouse has gone to that Swiss Cheese in the sky. You see one, you got ten. 

It was my and my husband’s first apartment. We were broke, so all we could afford was a dubious first floor in-law that was at least close to the park and beach (as much as you can use the beach in San Francisco). Anyway, we nicknamed this apartment “the cave” because the only windows it had either looked into an…

Oh man. My husband and I moved into our first apartment and everything seemed fine. At first. New carpets, new floors, new kitchen cabinets. Dumb young woman that I was so was so excited to get out of the parents house and move in with her boyfriend that a lot of reg flags were missed.

I lived in a what appeared to be a nice looking apartment in a complex at the top of a steep hill in Flagstaff, Arizona.

I love how Crazy Ex Girlfriend takes all of these tropes and then breaks that apart and shows all the quirks and flaws that would make people act that way. Rebecca Bunch is the crazy-Ex because her brain is literally crazy and she is desperately searching for a person to make her happy because she can’t do it…