Yes, this! Metro is the poster child for “a camel is a horse designed by committee.”

Ive done legal work for a group that does this curriculum. Mostly sexual harassment but some racial sensitivity training. They are pretty open in person about the fact that they aren’t changing people at all, just establishing brightline rules and zero tolerance to signal to people to keep it to themselves, and…

You make really good points. I wanted to chime in and say, just like people extrapolate from the anecdotal, I think there’s a lot of people worried that whatever the most recent news worthy assault allegations are, that it’s precedent for all other cases. As if Patricia losing his job would become a watershed for…

Yeah, I guess you’re right. Regardless, I’ll have a permanent soft spot for Dickens because, when I was little, my grandma and I used to take turns reading chapters of his books over the phone each night before I went to bed.

The entire Trump Administration/family/crime-syndicate is basically just the dickhead kid who didn’t read the book they’re giving the book report on.

I dunno, Dickens was obsessed with certain women and had a really odd fixation with his SIL, while at the same time being distant and shitty to his wife. I mean, I read this list to be about psychoanalysis rather than bad behavior, so he belongs on this list to me. If we’re talking about personal lives, I always think…

Oof. I listened to the audiobooks read by Roy Dotrice (who was an amazing actor and Anton in The Cutting Edge, so I love him), but it made that all the more striking. Poor Roy reading Daenerys’ wedding night permanently scarred me.

YOU SHALL NOT PASS....the Bechdel Test.

I actually hate it so much I read it again, like a historian studying Mein Kampf. His writing definitely hits my imagination bone and is compelling, but is so rife with subtle-yet-vicious agression against women it blows my mind. Shit, I could write a book about that book, but I’d need to cross reference the DSM-5.

Did you read Freedom? Every female character in the book is nonsense, but in this really clunky foreign seeming way, like he was raised in a monastery and read up studiously on women in the 20th/21st century, but had yet to encounter one.

No. You’re right, I probably should slow my roll on that one. I was thinking more of the Phillip Roth self-absorption, nastiness, and cold shitbaggery as opposed to the outright criminal shit. When I think of DFW, my mind immediately goes to Franzen. Now I’m trying to figure out how James Joyce got on this list, he…

Amazing list, but there’s a Jonathan Franzen-sized hole in it.

Did you do this, or do I suck at googling .gifs? You are a saint.

If someone says no, they’re either basically a virgin or not really a partner, just a parisite. I ate pussy, no sweat, but it took a while once I came out to suck cock. I needed to get used to it, but then I loved it. Maybe my BF can help DJ Khaled find out how much he loves sucking dick.

As a survivor of sexual abuse as a child and as someone born male who now identifies as queer and intersex, I hate to read this. And as someone who loved Oscar Wao and has carribean heritage, I’m sick, too. I hate to think I’m judged based on this seemingly woke person, I hate that someone has to watch themselves…

This is the shit that makes me wish I wasn’t too lazy to make a .gif of Tony Soprano’s mother saying, “Oh, Poor You!”

Watch the entire video. The cop says Ward pointed the gun at him. He clearly didn’t, the cop was lying.

One person with a gun scares me a lot less than cops who seem to shoot on instinct and switch to dishonesty once they start thinking rationally.

Just my take. At some point, the cop realized his cam was on. He was pretty quiet and stoic for the first few minutes, then once his fellow officers started asking questions, he went to check where he came from, tried to concoct a story, and play up the fear and hyperventilation. He never moved like he was scared when…

I have a good friend who is a massage therapist and she messes around with her own stretching and yoga techniques when ever she gives me a massage to get extra bang for her buck I guess. But I am also an enormous person height and weight-wise, and not a rickety old pervert. Also because there’s the unpredictable…