Schools who violate Title IX can’t receive federal funding. HB2 forces them to violate Title IX. It isn’t that the schools are being targeted, it’s that the schools are in direct violation due to HB2. Hence the funding issue. If you keep funding schools that violate Title IX then you are saying Title IX doesn’t effect…

Sure it will. It keeps everyone’s attention focused on the transgender aspect of this bill while getting people to overlook that the same bill also forbids cities and counties in NC from enacting higher-than-federal minimum wage laws, or parental leave laws, or basically any other kinds of laws that might make life a…

You implied that the concept of gender identity isn’t something that has a definition. It does. That being said I’m sure you’re on the right side of this argument, and I know it’s others that need convincing (not so much the federal government—they are aware of the concept, they just need to make non-gender-conforming…

I remember, oddly enough, watching Robert Downey Jr.’s interview on Inside the Actor’s Studio several years ago. Lipton was asking about what he was like to work with as an actor on set, and he basically framed his response around the idea that to be unprepared or to waste time quibbling about “not feeling the…

He’a going to lose this and lose this hard, which is what they want. This bathroom bill is just a smoke screen. The really terrible meat of the bill makes raising the minimum wage in the state illegal and strips a ton of LBGT rights away, such as housing protection and medical care.

In his latest special, Patton Oswalt mentions something called “stage health.” It’s basically the phenomenon by which a performer is able to summon enough energy to power through a show, no matter how shitty they’re feeling. I’ve had to step in front of cameras when I was a disgusting, effluvial mess and somehow…

I took a theatre class in college where one of the students blamed a poor performance on him “just not fully feeling the moment and the character,” probably thinking that it would get him bonus points for, I dunno, aspiring to a ~deep connection~ with the material.

This is what our military should be doing instead of fighting useless wars in far off lands.

That was amazing. He’s claimed repeatedly that his relationship with Soon-Yi couldn’t be abuse because he ignored her completely when she “just” one of Mia Farrow’s kids, going so far as to say he had never so much as had a conversation with her before they became romantically involved.

And he seems a little confused about who exactly changed her life by adopting her from Korea.

“Organic” = Has a specific definition for how the product is grown, fed, kept healthy, harvested, and processed. In general, it is more appealing to some buyers, but IMO, it’s just a more expensive product with no significant health benefits. Great way to spend $10 on Bananas, tho.

Then we should regulate them. Personally, I don’t give a crap about organic, natural, or any other BS label. But I do have a personal connection to many farm workers and former farm workers, and the health effects of pesticides on these communities IS something I happen to care about.

But they do have a definition for “organic” which is what the plaintiffs evidently think Quaker Oats is claiming to be even though it’s not anywhere on the label.

Rachel Bloom’s “Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury”:

You know, I really like your writing. Have since The Awl. Think you are extremely perceptive and talented and a lot of your pieces offer a lot. But I have noticed this thread recently of pieces policing the boundaries of right-thinking right thinking. The Macklemore beat, sorta. And I do understand the impulse but at…

Should probably rehydrate.

Yeah, and not just backpain, but having huge boobs while growing affects your spine. Mine is crooked in my neck. Sort of a permanent mini hunch. And other fun stuff like muscle tension headaches because my back and shoulders are permanently tensed to hold the weight. It’s fun all around. I have nothing but respect for…

Oh fuck this woman. Breast reduction is fucking surgery, it’s not easy or fun, and no one does it lightly. And 18 is a perfectly acceptable age to do it, it’s when I had mine and because of my youth, my recovery was incredibly quick.

As someone who has had this surgery, I’d also like to note that society doesn’t give…

“I have been physically abused, and I believe all of this is emotional abuse. Ariel should ask herself, ‘has Ariel ever raised a hand to her mother? Has Ariel ever done anything she’s ashamed of to her mother?’”

What??? Carbonara is amazing. So eggy, bacony, creamy, definitely indulgent. God I love that stuff. #teamcarbonara