I have Serious Feels for the First Lady that I cannot entirely describe.

I'll just wait here for the #notallgamers crowd.

I'm a gamer. I have been for thirty years now.

I'm also a heterosexual, cisgendered white male—and while I sometimes have questions or concerns about Sarkeesians methods and research practices, her message isn't off the mark at all. She's onto something, and I think…

Can we please start finally flat-out calling these folks terrorists already? The FBI's definition of domestic terror:

Fucking what? Nobody's threatening your life. If you were the one getting bomb threats, I wouldn't criticise how you handled it. Matter of fact, I would EXPECT you to put a brave face on it and show the world you were not going to be stopped. I would applaud you for that.

So in this case, when the national chapter of Phi Delta Theta said, "No more of this behavior," they really meant ... no?

Fascinating.

"According to E Online, reruns of 7th Heaven, which starred Collins as a father and pastor, have been pulled from UP TV."

13 year old me got a deep pleasure out of hate-watching it. It was on ABCFamily 3p-4p and I got out of school at 3:30. I would literally rush home so I could catch the last twenty minutes of the episode and just sit there reflecting on everything I haaaaaated about the show. Obviously I was a totally normal and super…

I never watched 7th Heaven. Apart from the super uncomfortable and ridiculous heavy religious overtones, the father just creeped me out so bad. That rictus grin, those watery cow eyes... *shudders* 13 year old me had good instincts.

This is not the most important part of the story, but it struck me:

Or really, it's ok to be a ho (you might get a rich man!) but DONT LOOK LIKE A SEXUAL PERSON!

Also if you think about it the character *was* dressed appropriately for her work situation and was *trying* to buy clothing that would be appropriate for the social situations she found herself in.

I'm 1000% sure that obsession with "modesty" breeds teenagers' obsession with "skanky" clothing. And I don't mean that in a reverse psychology "they're just rebelling" kind of way. I mean that the idea that women should cover up is rooted in the same belief as the idea that women should show off their bodies. They…

I don't know why whenever there is a discussion about dress codes that someone feels compelled to talk about "dressing for work" or something to that effect. Then they describe what they have to wear for work and it would never be something you would wear for high school anyway. Not everybody aspires to work in an…

Counterpoint: Show them a clip from Clueless. Because even if you have on a white collarless shirt from Fred Segal, you will not pass a test if you don't study for it. Wearing your most capable looking outfit has no bearing on intelligence or scholastic achievement, and schools should be more concerned with that than…

Can we talk about how this school is called Devil's Lake High School?! What, are they on a Hellmouth or something? Sounds like the relative sluttyness of students' clothes should be the least of their worries. Maybe they should implement a dress code that includes silver crosses and strings of garlic, instead.

And banned from appearing in public without a woman who can vouch for their behaviour.

"huffypuffiness" FTW.

You can say hi, and I can ignore you. The problem with you "just saying hi" is that if I don't respond the way you want, it won't end with you just saying hi.

THIS attitude is what annoys me. Like I owe you damn "hi." I don't owe any strangers anything. The huffypuffiness white boys get when you ignore them is the best evidence of their entitlement.

This is so appropriate today for me. I was working out at the YMCA by work yesterday afternoon. I'm in the hallway outside of the free weight room doing my typical strength exercises and an old man exits the men's locker room and says to me "Keep it up, you look great!"