I’m glad she is selling her bison to someone who can give her more space to roam. I think she overall cares about her bison’s well-being if she is willing to let her go. However, I get a bit prickly when someone says their pet is in too good of health to need a vet visit.

I’ve never denied that there are a lot of material benefits to marriage. However, I find it deeply unjust that those benefits are not available to those who can’t or won’t get married.

Definitely! But I do think the dynamic changes. After marriage, you may be less likely to have roommates changing the chore labor (or a mom who comes over and cooks/cleans for her son... I had a few male roommates whose moms came over to do caring labor for them). You are also more likely to be economically…

The judge still makes you exchange vows and bring witnesses.

I’ve been with my partner as long, and we skipped the wedding too. We were not really comfortable with the spectacle and felt they were moee a declaration of ownership rather than love, which we feel is more private/intimate.

Things have certainly gotten better for married women, but I think the expectation that women doing the emotional labor, child-rearing, and housework is still very present. There are some lucky exceptions out there, but for the most part we are still expected to keep house and tend to everyone’s emotional needs, on…

University of Washington had a nuclear reactor on campus, too, that sat unused until it was also dismantled in 2006. They removed the uranium, though, in 1988.

I share your fascination with Walt Disney’s optimism and utopianism (I even enjoyed the Tomorrowland movie). However, I can’t help but be a little cynical. When I worked at WDW and visited Celebration, I was depressed I couldn’t afford to live there on my $6.50 hourly wage.

I believe John Boyega is British, so I don’t think it is accurate to describe him as African American.

Butler was gone too soon. I was planning on traveling to see her read at the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle, but I was away at college and figured I’d catch her next reading. Unfortunately, she passed away unexpectedly during one of our winter storms, I believe from slipping and falling on ice in her driveway. Now…

I don’t raid, and have been playing the same character since launch. I haven’t run out of other stuff to do yet.

Hollywood Reporter claimed a reboot was in the works with Rob Tapert, Sam Raimi, and Lucy Lawless attached. Lawless tweeted that this was just a rumor, at least on her and Tapert’s end. (They are married.) Hollywood Reporter and Entertainment Weekly both maintain the reboot is really happening, and haven’t addressed…

Unfortunately, it is cheaper to hire a poor person to grow a baby. I really think that is why nobody bothered to develop artificial wombs.

I can't imagine lace bralets working for anyone with anything more than the bosom of a tween.

I have small boobs. Like, a-cup bras are too big for me. I feel like it is pretty easy for me to find clothes that fit around the bust. Sure, I'm pretty much stuck with sports bras and lace-bralets, but I don't have to worry about blouses gaping.

Very important essay. I'm glad to see it being widely shared.

However, should white liberals who congratulate themselves for not being racist be in the same category as the white allies who standing between people of color and the pepper-spray-happy police at #BlackLivesMatter demonstrations?

Did she have implants at 17 too?

Remember Mary's downward spiral? As I recall back in the day, 7th Heaven producer Brenda Hampton character assassinated Mary Camden as revenge for the unwholesome photo shoot. After TPing the school gym, Mary flitted from career to career, and failed to become both a cop and firefighter because she was just there to…

I've been ranting about the pockets conspiracy for years. When guys say, "Your phone is about to fall out of your pocket!" I really let them hear it. "You try wearing girl jeans for a day!"

My (male) partner is skinny and swims in male clothing, so I often give him my old pants that fit him better. He marvels at how…