This is what all marijuana smokers think. As someone who works in college residence halls, the vast majority of smokers are completely nose blind to the smell of weed. I’ve had to bring in professional cleaners to get the smell out on a multitude of occasions. This is also true for vaporizers. Now, if you want to not…

Dammit. And this is when we’re forced to ask when will black men show up for black women? If you believe in social justice even a little (as Anderson’s voiceover at the beginning of every episode suggests), you must know that once you have a little power, your responsibility is to share that power, especially if…

Counterpoint: What if it’s a badass antique blacksmith apron?

Cripes, one’s early twenties are the cruelest time of all. So many things seemed like a good idea.

It’s amazing how, when the conversation is about a progressive dude, suddenly “no means no” becomes

Yes! This story is a perfect teaching moment about enthusiastic consent. You don’t want someone going away with bad feelings about their experience, guys? Get enthusiastic consent. You shouldn’t be pushing and pressuring to get what you want.

I think that reinforces the point though — the conversation here should be a lot more nuanced and handled more deftly. I’m in my 30s now and I know how to say no, but pretty much throughout my 20s as I explored my sexuality I consistently ran into situations that I didn’t know how to handle. There’s a lot of pressure…

He repeatedly ignored her clear verbal and non-verbal signals of non-consent and continued to pressure her into sexual activity. How is that not predatory behavior?

Except that came from Jamil herself. In interview on this very web site, she said her main contribution to character was to make her “more English” (which she equated with being more passive-aggressive.) Why, it almost as if “British” and “white” not equivalent terms, and someone can be representative of country they…

Kmart gives me sturdy cotton plus size basics and jeans in tall sizes. Target offers me polyester crap that is mixed in with maternity and clearance stuff. As a large woman, I feel like Target has sent very mixed signals about whether they want my business over the years.

Every time I hear that another swath of K Marts are closing, I worry. My hometown’s KMart (rural NY) is the only non-food store that’s standing. It’s a desperately poor area where many people’s lives are constrained by the fact that always-reliable cars are a luxury, and the KMart is a necessary walkable option.…

The comments in articles about the “retail apocalypse” are always so frustrating to me, as someone who has over a decade of experience filling in income gaps with retail work. There are so many people who are so quick to say, “Good, I hate the mall!”

Some of the folks saying it are literally the same commenters that…

Also Martha really is self-made. She may have tons of assistants but it’s not because she couldn’t do things herself. All the crafts and hosting stuff? She’s been doing that always.She actually got a partial scholarship and worked her way through college with those skills and modelling. Then, she worked in finance,…

He’s just a guy, sitting next to a girl, trying to get through a flight, as best as he can.

Megan Kelley is making 20 million dollars?

TRUE STORY: I work in Rock Center but NOT for NBC and a colleague of mine had a broken leg. One day she was struggling down the street on crutches past 30 Rock and Hoda walked out to get in her black car. Hoda did NOT know my colleague, but because Hoda is a dream, she gave my colleague her black car and told it to…

THIS ALL DAY. I was a dancer for a long time. I never had to wear revealing or sexy costumes. Now I see my friends with toddler daughters allowing their dance studios to dress their babies in ridiculous grown up shit. And that’s not even the part that makes me rage. It’s that they have them posing with “sexy” faces…

I can remember the first time I got self-conscious about my weight. I was six or seven. I was in dance class. I was taking jazz. We were dancing to Zippity Do Da and had costumes that showed our midriff. The mothers started making comments about our cookie tummies and cutting down before the big recital. It was like…

She’s a self-made woman and went thru a lot (mother twice divorced before Lee was out of HS, mother beat her and she left home at 15 to live with a boyfriend—that is nobody’s idea of a recipe for well-adjusted adult).

My mom and my sponsor are solid, my cats are assholes in a way only I understand, and I’m going to believe in Barack, Michelle, and Mr. Rogers regardless.