I like IKEA. I don’t find it stressful or temper-fraying. I enjoy building the furniture; I have assembled furniture for my friends, even, because it’s fun. Snobs and haters can go suck on a FINANSIELL.

I’m kinda bummed our thread about being invisible didn’t make the cut, because there’s another side to this coin as well. Particularly considering women included in this group (of women who have never experienced being checked out) includes women with disabilities, or women that have never conformed with gender roles,…

I am TERRIBLE at doing my hair. I have ultrathin, flat hair that doesn’t hold a curl or hairspray or product very well at all. I can do three things: 1) leave it down (it gets really flat really quickly) 2) put in an anemic pony tail 3) put it in a tiny topknot IF my hair is cooperating and I have time to fuck up a…

I watched 5 minutes of Frances Ha and had to turn it off. It’s too much hipster for me, without any self-awareness. If I had seen it when I was younger maybe I would’ve liked it more, but what I saw made me feel very “Get off my lawn.” I feel this way about Baumbach’s stuff.

Dumb storytelling- the fact that his ancestors owned slaves makes his mother marching for civil rights MORE compelling, not less, and would create a narrative about not being so defined by a racist past that you refuse to change for the better.

This was not a verbal retort, but a burn none the less. I was in journalism school and we had a class with the TV students for a unit on TV news that we did together. The TV tutor was an uberbitch. (Our tutor was cool).

Yeah...my friend’s left-wing and no Zionist so if the German lady would have said, “I hate Netanyahu” my friend would probably have gone, “Me too, he‘s the worst,” but, nooooo, she had to drag all ten million* Jews into it.

The problem with endemic corruption is that, when a new regime pledges to “root out corruption,” it often means rooting out the specific corruption of which it itself isn’t a beneficiary. Corruption will go on, it’ll just be a slightly different segment of society that pays the price.

Ellie, this is like the start of every romcom/romance novel ever.

Whenever there is a post that talks about smart children, commenters immediately come out to lament about the burdens of being gifted, and the weight of the expectations loaded upon these special and smartest snowflakes. Don’t live my struggle, they stoicly request. I’m no hero, they whisper to the apathetic masses.…

After seeing it recommended while reading stories about the HBO doc, I got and just started reading Jenna Miscavige Hill’s memoir about growing up in Scientology, and I swear to god I have to keep reminding myself that this isn’t YA fiction set in the world of Hunger Games or Divergent, because it really, really feels…

This is what I think of every time I see comments shitting on the Kardashians for basically existing in plain view.

I think Big Sean is just mad because he did it wrong. You have to support her head! Her little neck isn’t strong enough yet, especially with the weight of that ponytail.

Funny. He’s indicted us, the audience, and media, but the Kardashians are the ones who get the brunt of his ire. There’s so much to be said about the cult of celebrity and how the Kardashians exemplify it, but the way they’ve become shorthand for “I’m too smart/elitist to partake in lowbrow entertainment” is such a…

A better questions is: what do a 25 year old and a middle aged man from Colorado have to talk about?

Yep, it’s obvious the candy is for more than one kid. Kim can’t even catch a break when she tries!

"Bad life decisions"? Bishop Sartain, is that you? These are teenagers who had sex, got pregnant and were offered some money in order to document their lives. Some failed and made mistakes, AS TWENTY-YEAR OLD'S are wont to do. Some thrived.