Keep it in the backseat rather than the trunk

he’s got the official “yells at his wife in public” starter pack on.

I was really hoping for a lot more camera in the tire footage, and a lot less Bad Fashion Dad yelling at me

I didn’t say they should, I’m just interested in knowing how much of the  change is due to good ol’ sexism and how much of it is the perceived status symbol of the person you're contacting needing an assistant. 

I feel like this is such a rich area of research. I saw an article a while back that Uber was using messages from a “female” company handler to convince drivers to log more hours. When the “ping” came from genderless “bot” people ignored it. I’m not sure if they tested with a “male” handler - e.g. Michael sends a text…

It’d be interesting to see if the same result could be achieved with a female “assistant” to see if the reason why it works is because it’s a man, or because having an assistant to start with adds an extra layer between people (making complaining pointless) and it introduces a sense that the person is busy enough they…

I (young woman at the time) was an assistant for a very successful filmmaker for a time and HE would literally sit next to me dictating responses to emails sent from my account because it looked better then him responding directly. I agree I don’t think it’s the gender, it’s just the perception of being so damn …

I think gender might be a part of it, but I think the largest benefit is just artificially removing yourself from the interaction.

This seems fairly similar to the old car dealer strategy of constantly “checking with a manager” during negotiations. It’s also a bit similar to how basically every complaints and help department is 70% people with no training or clearance to say anything but I’m sorry so that you can’t have someone responsible to get…

To the preface this, I’m trying to manquestion and not mansplain. In regards to the “assistant,” I get that this hack might work, but it seems like more of a bandaid over the problem of underlying misogyny. If the goal is equality, I think that this might actually do more harm than good in a “win the battle, lose the…

I always find this sort of stuff amusing but only because I had a pair of old-school 70s radio-DJ headphones, the kind that weighed what felt like 20 kilos, and they weren’t that much different from strapping full-size speakers directly to your brain.

Yeah, my first thought was “Nobody!”  Why ruin it?

I think it would have to be Trump.

The Red Cross rep I spoke with wasn’t sure if I could donate or not. I work in a hospital, so I’m bound to have contact with COVID patients, in addition to suspected COVID patients (people being tested). Red Cross states they don’t want you donating blood if you’ve been in contact with any possible or positive COVID…

Disappointed. Thought there’d be some cool life hack like, prick your finger and let the blood drop into a bowl of warm water and read the letter it forms or something like that.

SLIDESHOW SUCKS

Where are all the ‘good cops’ condemning this? 9 months that photo circulated among their colleagues and not a single one complained? It’s safe assume then that the people who saw the photos aren’t ‘good cops’.

Number of cops fired for mocking Elijah McClain: 4

No, you're the only one. Individuality! Enjoy!

Strange but true: Mayonnaise also good for fixing cravings for mayonnaise.