I showed this story to my wife.

What I can’t get over with the video is how awkward she looks. I mean, she’s skinny and pretty, but she moves so awkwardly! and all the post-production and money in the world cannot make her look co-ordinated.

what did we make her do

Look what you made me do.

I’ve only listened once so far and am very tired, but I definitely took it as her playing the victim rather than owning up to her misguided publicity efforts last summer. I interpreted it as her detailing how someone else’s actions make her seem like a villain, thus shirking responsibility for her new reputation.

That might be the most shameful part of this (for her). It really seems like all of these Trump stooges are basically “playing house.” Linton thinks she can become the next Jackie O by dressing up and posing as she steps out of a plane with her charlatan of a powerbroker husband. Ivanka thinks she can divest…

Even as a lesbian, how compliant with conventions of attractiveness men perceive you to be has a major impact on how you’re treated. Not being attracted to men doesn’t mean that you’re not socially punished if you’re not sufficiently attractive to men or that you don’t react to that pressure.

But, as you mention here, makeup (these days especially) is SO NOT ABOUT DUDES.

Her daughter is 7. I don’t remember what I was doing when I was 7, but I was not smearing anything on my face. When I look at my now-teenage niece, she started with make-up way younger than I ever did and cakes it on like a drag queen. And then she takes 500 selfies. She’s a good kid, smart and kind, but the amount of…

This really bugs me - one, the whole “makeup is dumb because men don’t do it” is problematic in a million ways. Two - her daughter is seven, and probably isn’t doing makeup. You know what she may well be doing? Forming her self-image, playing with expressions in order to communicate more effectively, discovering who…

I see nothing wrong with her giving her daughter some perspective on the amount of labour beauty can take, and setting a reasonable limit based on her age. It *is* true that her brother probably isn’t going to do it, and being deliberate about how you spend your time isn’t a bad thing (she says, posting on Jezebel).…

I feel like I’m the only person who hated White Teeth. I finished it, but man, I did NOT enjoy it.

I did math in my undergrad. Both male and female students judged the female math students that wore make up. I did not wear make up because I was lazy and honestly I also had no interest in it. But I had some fights with some classmates that were alsodear friends about this. My main point was always: why do you judge…

Says the woman with the immaculate cheekbones and gorgeous hair. :)

Their kids are 15 and 26.

In order to cheat, Joss Whedon gaslighted his wife very badly to the point where she has PTSD. He also blamed his cheating on the actresses who threw themselves at him - paraphrasing here but that was the gist of what he said. He definitely used the power imbalance between himself and the actresses to his advantage.

“As a guilty man I knew the only way to hide was to act as though I were righteous.”

As someone who knows the absolute devastation and trauma being cheated on (by the last person you would think) I absolutely understand why Kai did what she did.

This is also a typical abuser world upside-down mindfuck bullshit. Somebody behaves so erratically horrible all the time that you start feeling grateful whenever they for once act like a normal human being. Don’t fall for it, Anybody Who Will Listen.