It shouldn’t, but sports scholarships make the difference between being able to go to college and not being able to, for a lot of young people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.

I think it’s intentional, but I don’t think Trump is coming up with the ideas. I think troll tactics get pitched to him and he selects the ones he likes.

Speaker of the House, then President pro tempore of the Senate, then Secretary of State.

It’s always so funny how romance is the one literary genre where the better read you are, the less you are assumed to know about it.

She’s a marketer. She surveyed the self-publishing landscape, realized fanfic was a great way to build an audience, and repurposed some old 90s erotica as Twilight fanfic. Then she unleashed her real talent for marketing.

I find my understanding of them is supported satisfactorily by reading their media and lurking on boards. Much like I find my understanding of, say, incels, is supported by just reading lookism and a few other places. I get their language, their grievances, their sense of humor, ascertain patterns and speculate to…

Linda Hamilton’s Arms in Terminator 2: The Thigh Gap of 1991.

I am white, middle-aged, female, and hold high level clearances, and I’ve been selected numerous times. I travel a lot, plans change and I end up booking one ways back home, etc.

In the immortal words of Natasha Bedingfield, no one else can speak the words on your lips.

Fantastic piece.

I think “do you” is always great advice for the kind of people it’s meant for...people with a specific and interesting POV all their own. People who have a “you” to do. You can’t do you when you got no you to do.

It is. But again, the point is that not all sexist condescension is mansplaining. It’s a specific variant. The mansplainer is confounded by female expertise. He assumes amateur male efforts are superior to professional female ones. Without that context you lose what made mansplaining a revelatory term in the first…

It’s condescending. And likely gendered and classist.

The reason you see it in professional settings is because that is the setting in which people reasonably expectat that they will be treated with a baseline level of assumption of their competence in the topic at hand, whatever that professional topic may be. If we’re both accountants, until one of us proves…

You’re correct. In order for something to be mansplaining, the topic must be something the mansplainer knows the woman has expertise. So something like, they are colleagues in the same field and the topic is something basic that someone in their field would naturally be informed about. Or, with a stranger - this is…

I can’t imagine how exhausting it must be to have to baby one’s spouse, and not even over anything real. Jesus it’s not like this is a beloved recipe from childhood that she’s just now discovering was shit all along and this means her mom was a terrible cook and she never even knew it.

I mean he wasn’t styled like the books with the gold teeth and the blue hair and beard but he was dramatic and cheesy and stood out, so you could see why Daenerys noticed him. Other guy was indistinguishable from every other guy and had no flair. Doesn’t mean he wasn’t attractive but he wouldn’t have caught her…

Daario 1.0. Also Ajax in Deadpool.

Fucked too soon, got it out of their systems years ago, so now it’s all up to talent and natural chemistry, and both aren’t exactly plentiful with these two.

The bones reflect the tools used to remove them.