I lived on that hall. The freakiest thing that happened my year there was that two of my friends were awakened in the middle of the night to a bright flash, unexplained. They were a little freaked, checked to make sure their door was locked (it was), and went back to bed. A few weeks later, when the film on one of…

NNNOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have dry mouth and gummy candy is one of the few things that actually helps. I’m glad I got Black Forest brand the last stock-up for my office; it was on pre-Halloween sale at Walgreens. But I generally prefer Haribo candies. :(

Asking about belief is a little odd considering I’m citing to social science that provides evidence for how calories/calorie counting are used and experienced. See Jonathan Metzl’s edited volume “Against Health” for more detail. What constitutes ‘healthy’ is much more about cultural norms than scientific evidence.…

...no. I recognize the language of a third or fourth year PhD student in the humanities or liberal social sciences, and therefore despite the obsfucation inherent in using such language on a site like Jezebel, I can actually understand what you’re saying, and also recognize that it isn’t smart.

Gddammit, I’m giving my students an exam, I’m psyching myself up for grading them by reading scary stories, and you just made me snort out loud that midway I tried to cover as a sneeze but the hulking dude in the front row with the neckbeard just gave me a LOOK (he’s actually a sweetheart but can look intimidating).

Except I live in rural Minnesota, in a town that has the only hospital and serves a catchment area of at least 20 miles around, sometimes more. The only upside is that the hospital that is about 50 miles away is the Mayo Clinic itself, but they pawn the locals onto the overburdened Olmstead County Medical Center…

My child has seen this series so many times, she’s convinced her middle name is actually “The Bee” and she signs her homework that way for kindergarten. I blame myself for singing the theme song from the 80s to her as an infant.
While crude, I’m not sure I can work up outrage over this. The mom seems rather prudish.…

Sexbots develop AI. The AI discovers feminism. The end of manhood as we know it.
I look forward to reading that plot in a future utopian lesbian feminist novel, please.

OMG, I live in the region and didn’t even realize it was a national trendy thing until this past summer and found my parents drinking it in hoity-toity Connecticut. Therefore I didn’t realize that people would be pronouncing all Frenchified instead of Sconnified! I really thought my mom was kidding when she pronounced…

The word is avarice, not avariciousness. And magnanimity isn’t a quality I would ascribe to John Kelly, unless you’re only concerned with white people (oh wait, this is a David Brooks article...)

Actually prior to the late 1990s, black boys were dxed autistic at twice the rate of white boys. The “epidemic” of autism diagnoses occured disproportionately among white kids, so now they’re 4x more likely to get an ASD dx while at least through 2010 the dx rate among black boys was heading slightly downward, likely…

Back in the late 1990s, I was part of a group of high school students that traveled to southern Russia, equidistant between the Ukraine and Kazakhstan. A lot of the Black students on the trip initially thought the Russians were using the n-word or Negro, but as we found out, the Russian word for a black person is…

I think the worst is when people who don’t know wish a very dead friend of mine a “Happy Birthday!” on his FB wall. Once a year reminder that he’s dead, and there are dozens of people who are responding to the banal FB prompt to wish him a happy birthday who don’t know that. He died before you could “memorialize”…

Thank gd my niece is born in the winter or I might suspect her to be the author of this list. Yinzer teens man.

As a friend tweeted last night while watching it... “Put Baby back in the corner! For the love of God put her back in the corner!”

Oy, yeah, ok, this isn’t me lashing out, or attacking you. Once again, the history of this comment thread: an article about a disabled person losing coverage under Trumpcare, a different user commenting an ableist and inaccurate meme, me pointing out that it is ableist and inaccurate, you getting defensive and listing…

(and btw, it isn’t “mean” or “nasty” to say “you’ve got some shit” nor is it being “dismissive” - if I were, I could have literally dismissed your reply to my own as a function of Kinja - it is truth-telling - you’ve got some shit around disability [and heteronormativity] that you should deal with)

I’m not trying to “win people over” because that is not my job in this world. I’m out to call people on their shit. I called out the meme, I explained it as offensive, you were defensive, you’ve got a problem with disabled people, and you’ve got a problem with privilege. My role isn’t to be the passive friendly crip…

The word you’re looking for is “disabled” not “otherly-abled.” I’m not granted super powers on account of chronic pain and autism. I’m impaired in doing what others consider routine tasks (picking things up, having culturally normative conversations) and then I experience social marginalization, aka disability, as a…

The meme is literally saying that Canada will cover my “pre-existing conditions” when actually they forbid me from living there. I’m not sure how you’re missing that this is offensive to people with disabilities.