I wish the best for this guy, and I am so happy to hear that someone as ground breaking and joy bringing as George Takei is not a predator. My partner and I had an experience last night with a man that, honestly, we didn’t enjoy and will never do again. The guy wasn’t a predator but just read the situation in a way we…

I’m always pretty shocked at the rhetorical contortions white people go through to see if it’s ok to say. I’ll go full white and say notallwhiteppl go home and scream it into their pillows at night, but someone in our family probably does.

I was honestly thinking that if there was a bad batch with moisture, that could easily be the culprit ala the Salem Witch grain fungus theory. I say with random baseless speculation and a breathaking lack of scientific understanding.

I guess the engineers wised up. No lie tho, a couple months ago I’m with my 4 year old at a bowling alley (sidebar: bowling alleys are legit fun and making a comeback...it’s like bowling alleys got hooked on meth for a while but now they’re chairing NA meetings.) And he’s playing the shitty games and they’re giving…

Honestly this headline has to win some sorta Racism Bingo.

Pretty sure that’s John Ritter taking a dump.

Its the same mindset that fuels incels and anti-sex work stigma. I’m so happy to have found non monogomy, both sexually and philisophically. My partner has way more sex than I do, and that works for us, and my partners experience is a turn on for me and makes me happy. Incels and prude lawmakers are really just…

Did you ever use the extra ticket technique? You pull down slowly instead of out and you can clean up on tickets. That was my racket when I was a kid, and I have a probably unenforceable ban and a slightly larger Chuck E Cheese doll to prove it.

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.