To be quite honest, she was terrifying at best. A mind like a steel trap and never satisfied with any one of her offspring or of their offspring- a frustrated genius who resented her role in life as mother and wife, an elementary school teacher who disapproved of children in general and an absolutely vicious snob. She…

My grandma audited art classes at the local university after she hit 80 so she could look at nude models and pretend to draw them. Maybe this would be considered a suitable replacement activity for whatever delegation Trump decides to inflict on Paris Accord negotiations? They need to let the big kids talk without…

I’ll never forgive her for betraying Mozart for that evil Salieri...

That is literally an over the shoulder boulder holder

Don’t get me wrong, there is plenty of conservatism and issues in the military. That said, since the very first day I put on a uniform it was made abundantly clear that I was to treat people of other genders, races, ethnicities, and religions with dignity and respect, and if I couldn’t manage that, then I was the…

I know, what an excellent choice of words he made in that statement. I’m so impressed that he took this opportunity to eloquently remind everyone just how terrible it is to haphazardly and unfairly target a group of people who are already amongst our most vulnerable. It’s much bigger than just this set of stupid…

To be honest (and I’m not very proud of this, so please don’t take it that way), based on my own family members who have served I generally viewed people in the armed services as somewhat backwards in terms of social issues. This man is an excellent example of why I was wrong to be comfortable with that…

Trump is an empty, grease-stained McDonald’s bag borne aloft by a stray breeze. He cannot control his direction, and his current height is due to the vagaries of chance. I guess the point I’m driving at is, he is literal garbage and his garbage-ness is so fundamental to his being that I don’t think he can actually…

Code 45* o’ the day:

Evangelism is a belief that one is obligated to spread the “good word of Jebus”. If she was “witnessing” to you, she was almost certainly an evangelical. We were taught that if we failed to “save” someone their blood (and eternal soul, natch) was literally on our hands, which is why evangelism has turned into this…

We’re now in a situation where the heads of the US Armed Forces, traditionally some of the most stubborn socially conservative people on the planet, are more tolerant than the President.

I, too, am more accepting of gay people than I am of white evangelicals.

So gay. Real men don’t words. Man snowflake butt stuff.

Ugh, nouveau masculinity is so bourgeois. Real men marry their sisters, are super into triangle shapes, and worship cats like the Ancient Egyptians.

because my erection points ever-heavenward

Yes, let us turn to a deeply patriarchal and misogynistic society for a deeper understanding of the best way to construct masculinity. Next up, what the well-ordered society of the antebellum South can teach us about whiteness.

I’m a real man’s man because my erection points ever-heavenward and everyone cares about my boner. “Such a boner” they murmur. I also have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.

I was afraid that he would mention that real men keep young boys as lovers which is also part of the Greek tradition.

As an Important Man who Writes Things On the Internet, I find this article reproachable, a pustule on the true virtues of manliness. I do not read articles such as this, I allow them to be placed in front of my eyes so that I may absorb their knowledge, a skill unbeknownst to the females who peruse this site—a site,…

Me, reading this: