I recently added an old college “friend with benefits” to my FB feed. Mistake. His hobbies (at 45) are drinking beer and reposting “Chicks on the Right.” But he got fat and went bald, so I get to laugh at that.

I have no words.

Me too! And then I wondered how much she got paid. Is there a special Gail Sheehy pool of money? Did she do it on the cheap because she likes Jezebel and wants to encourage other writers to submit these kinds of pieces here? I HAVE QUESTIONS!

I mean he is a surgeon.

As a black women: no one cares bitch. Fuck, nothing I hate more than white people who ‘check their privilege’ and think that is a political statement. Like, no, that shit just makes you feel better, it’s like saying you are ‘praying for the victims’ after a shooting. FUCKING DO SOMETHING.

“Thank you for coming in today Mrs. Cosby. Now if you will just drink this, we can get started.”

Something tells me that she feels that the victims are the evil ones. If only they had kept their filthy whore mouths shut and their filthy whore legs closed, she wouldn’t have to deal with all of this inconvenience.

Watched the Revenant last weekend, over 2 nights cause I kept falling asleep. Two takeaways 1) ew 2) the person who made my imaginary bf Tom Hardy so utterly unfuckable deserves an Oscar more than Leo.

TBH I would be disappointed if it didn’t feel like a low budget commercial for tequila mixer.

I was 13-14 in the mid-70s, and I got a lot of attention from grown men. I was thrilled by it. Boys my age either ignored me, barked at me, or called me names. Adult men talked to me like I was a person, admired me, complemented me. At the time, it was bliss, and I felt it made me special. And thanks mainly to a lack…

Hey, he might be bipolar AND an asshole. There are plenty of those around.

Honestly Britbrit I like where your head’s at you just have to be careful. I’ve met a lot of hot nerds who came into their looks post-high school and it’s made them into MONSTERS. And you’re like, how could you cheat on me while borrowing my car and they’re like ooooo I was never hot in high school and they almost cry…

The problem is that even when men are willing to have an egalitarian division of domestic labor, it rarely works out to be truly equal in practice, just because these patterns are so deeply ingrained. And even if you’re lucky enough to have a partner who’s willing to share the work (and remember that men who are…

It sucks that it appears pretending you don’t have kids is pretty much the only way to avoid being punished for being a mother. Ideally, we’d be fighting to make it so that work culture was more accommodating of parenthood. But that requires people who are willing to sacrifice for the sake of people who will come…

The sad thing is, in the department where I’ve done my grad work (biology at a mid-sized university) most of the faculty are very nice on a personal level. Nice to talk to, willing to help out, glad to buy you a beer. However, many still:

(1) Say sexist shit, and really cross the line in relationship with grad…

Exactly. I hear this all the time in academia - male employee needs more money because he’s supporting his family. Female employee? Keep her at the minimum grade salary, and be leery about promotion.

Women don’t make children by themselves, for themselves, as some kind of idiosyncratic hobby. They should have partners sharing the burden. Societ should share the burden too. Also, fuck you.

we need to be willing to only marry men who do 50% of childcare.

Man with kids = gotta pay him more so he can support that family!

I used to be a professor. I think the answer is that academia does not forget any errors. Men take on fewer responsibilities in most couples but that affects female professors more because female professionals in other areas can slow down a bit without paying a huge penalty. When I slowed down for a year (not related…