Diversity is key when organizing most panels. When the panel is specifically about women, all women is OK. When the panel is specifically about men, all men is OK. When organizers are allowed to pretend that only men are the arbiters of gender neutral topics, we need to talk.

Well, I didn't have any classes with her. Maybe that helped.

I remember that Humvee. He had the first private one, before they were commercially available, which makes him a trend-setter among America's douchebags.

This maybe doesn’t count as a celebrity story anymore, because I doubt many people remember who Spalding Gray was... but when I was at UCLA, he was going to perform a monologue at one of the campus theaters. He had a pre-show Q&A session for a small group of students. I struggled to come up with a question, and…

The trick is making this visible. Eventually? Sure.

That sketch is annoying and wears out its joke halfway through. And that laugh track!

Hopefully this also works beneath the level of conscious decision making by embarrassing the fuck out of the men on these panels.

Work story! I work in personnel and my department is overseen by Human Resources for the entire entity. The manager in HR who handles personnel issues is quite fat and doesn’t always dress very well. This is the subject of continuous notice and comment from women especially from other departments overseen by hers. The…

“Wrongness” and how titillating wrongness can be is a wider category than just “ I like to degrade my sex partner,” but I would venture that the degradation group is by far the largest cohort engaged in AtM.

I think it will be a real rape.

“May cause serious side effects.”

While she’s checking her privilege, do you think you can spare a moment to look into your misogyny? That way we all have something to do.

I think she was definitely referencing her own skin color as if it was not a loaded topic, which was incredibly tone deaf and functionally if not intentionally racist. She talks for a living. She should have known better.

He does it for the reaction. I saw his comment yesterday when it was grey and decided to leave it that way. Ignoring the deliberately inflammatory troll would have been a better course of action here.

Chicken wings are disgusting.

The clothing is awful. The cups are cute.

Let’s wait until we see him in a tux to decide that.

I hate when rich privileged humans appropriate Na’vi culture like that.

The author asks that Janay be left out of her husband's bullshit redemption story, not that she be ignored by the media. That's in the headline of the article. You only needed to read the headline of the article in order to entirely invalidate the point you are trying to make.

I think this is more than enough information to call Favorite Child for Gideon.