My mom is around Hillary’s age, and she has lots of questions around stuff like gender identity and pronouns. She has a really hard time with “they/them/theirs” pronouns, for example, but if I yell at her and shout her down, she would just get defensive and she’d never learn. So I try to talk to her using specific…

Same. I work in a small office of all women, in a women’s health care nonprofit. It’s not always a 100% ideal workplace, but I feel reasonably confident that I won’t have to deal with the kinds of situations that end up getting written about by Ronan Farrow. 

This story was freaky, and then at the last line my mouth just dropped open in disgust. WHAT THE FUCK???

The really scary ones make tears start pricking behind my eyes. CONGRATULATIONS FOR MAKING ME CRY.

THAT LAST LINE. I swear to god, the creepy shit toddlers say is a big reason I don’t think I want kids. 

I don’t have anything meaningful to add, except that I fucking love Rebecca Traister, and everyone should read Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger.

Last week I searched the site to find out roughly when the call for stories would go out this year. I don’t even like scary movies, but I love the stories in this post every year! 

So who’s Baron? Cousin Greg?

The last couple years have shown me my 72 year old mom isn’t the feminist liberal role model I thought she was growing up. She told me last week that “the squad” should sit down and shut up, and she’s brushed off some of the #metoo revelations with stuff like “we all dealt with stuff like that.” And then there’s…

Quick point of fact on Thor:

I’ve only read a couple chapters of the book so far, but it’s REALLY GOOD. Miller is an excellent writer, though it can sometimes be a painful and immersive experience to read about what she went through. I think it may be too difficult for some survivors of sexual violence, but I think if you’re able, you should…

Aside from the obvious hideousness of these shoes (which I realize some people will like specifically because of how ridiculously ugly they are), kitten heels are the dumbest of all possible shoes. They’re not high enough to actually make sense for an aesthetic appeal (kitten heels aren’t going to make anyone’s legs…

I know the Roy children are supposed to be Trump-like, and the obvious parallels at the start were Don Jr. is Kendall, Eric is Roman, and Ivanka is Shiv, but I think they got it wrong.

It’s because he looks so much like Mike Huckabee, isn’t it? 

I don’t know if you’re a Who fan, but the all-caps “fantastic” gave me an ironic giggle/groan, since it was the 9th Doctor’s catchphrase.

“People love the way I look in that series, but I was very ill,”

I honestly don’t get cynical people. What’s the point? That if we don’t get 100% of what we want, it’s not worth it to try for anything? That failure is inevitable, so fuck it? Is it a defense mechanism, to protect yourself from getting your hopes up?

Your mom probably knows all this already

Smugness is my number 1 punchable quality. To me, Paul Ryan has always had the most punchable face in the world, and it’s because he looks so fucking smug and pleased with himself. But some deranged people think he’s fuckable, and maybe they see that smugness as confidence? 

Anyone going into the film is likely familiar with Jokers of yore: Jack Nicholson’s dancing and campy gangster, Heath Ledger’s cunning and truly brilliant criminal mastermind, and whatever Jared Leto was trying to do​ in Suicide Squad​.