All you brits know the royal family, right? You pop round Kensington Palace for tea and crumpets before stopping for pudding at Mary Berry’s place?

Be still my ‘90s heart!

I’m definitely team keep your name, but I understand it’s every person’s own choice. When I married my husband I knew I would keep my name, but I told him I was open to hyphenating if he also hyphenated his. That didn’t really appeal to either of us, though, and he didn’t want to change his, so we just kept our names…

Since there are so many judges and juries who want to let rapists and domestic abusers off easy, minimum sentences in those cases can be a targeted way to solve that problem. It’s also used in so many bullshit ways, though, like for instance putting nonviolent drug offenders away for unreasonably long periods. You’re…

Neutrogena Hydro Boost is a great line. I use their gel moisturizer at night, and their gel with spf 15during the day. My skin is so moist and dewy!

When you teach people that bc and condoms don’t work, surprise! People don’t use them!

Not just that people don’t want to be abstinent, but the vast majority of people in the US are not abstinent. Why teach sex Ed based on outdated values that don’t apply to most of the population? Why not just have sex Ed that addresses real issues of people in the real world?

Who would do that? Like seriously, ok, you don’t like someone, don’t Take it out on their pets! Their pets did nothing!

Yeah, from the description it sounds like she reacted exactly how a rape victim would not want her to react. It’s completely believable that if this conversation happened, Constand realized she revealed this information to the wrong person and said anything to shut it down.

Considering one of the goals of charter school-pushing politicians is to union-bust public school unions, it’s not at all surprising.

Relatedly, have you listen to the This American Life episode called Five Women? It’s interviews with five women who were sexually harassed or assaulted by the same man, sharing their stories about what happened. It is super intense so I wouldn’t blame you for avoiding it, but it is mind blowing. They talk about their…

As a lawyer, I don’t know how the defense attorneys in rape cases who make arguments like this can feel good about themselves. I go to court all the time but I do mostly eviction defense, which is easy to feel good about. I don’t even like to do custody because you inevitably end up representing an asshole.

I think what you are getting at with knowledge plays a big part, too. Just like you didn’t understand in the first grade what sex was and why this was wrong, we just did not have the same ways to talk about date rape or acquaintance rape for a lot of the time when Cosby was raping people. Plus, our society…

I am a super fan of her other vintage-rock-sounding albums, so when the first song came out I was a little sad about the change style, but I keep watching the videoS and I am loving it. It’s more pop, sure, but it feels fresh and new and not a copy of anyone else. I think another ArchAndroid or Electric Lady would…

When I saw Hidden Figures in the theater I kept thinking “why is this character mugging at the camera when other people are speaking?” About halfway through I realized she was not doing anything weird, it’s just that she is distractingly beautiful and I couldn’t keep my eyes off of her.

I love this book. I worked at a thrift store for a while and bought up old versions. They always have amazing accurate information, but they also reflect their times. One early 70’s version has a whole chapter about raising your children in a commune. In 90’s versions you start to see information about HIV/AIDS. Every…

MOney can buy you SO MUCH auto tune.

Iit’s the first thing I think of when I see her name. I want it to never the first thing anyone thinks of because it is so gloriously awful.

Relevant to Luann:

I cried during every single speaker. When the poet (the one who threw up and kept going like a boss) talked about her classmate being murdered in front of her, I felt the weight of what they were going through. Some of them sat, hidden and scared, but some of them saw their peers die in front of them and they were…