I just finished listening to “Medium Raw” on audiobook. There were a couple times I started sobbing and had to collect myself when I got to work. He was so brutally honest about himself. He talks about his depression and addiction and how it feels to be too broke and overwhelmed to pursue the life you want. It was…

Michael Moore? Bullshit? Yeah, that checks out.

Objectively cute; also, should be murdered anywhere they are an invasive species.

That’s the thing it is an Opinion Editorial. Some people have a problem recognizing it is just one person’s opinion (like when they share one of these on Facebook indicating it is from the NYT as if that meant something). And as long as it is well written and not overly offensive or insulting, and usually by someone…

I’m not sure you need to “vet” a piece by Professor Amar, perhaps the preeminent constitutional scholar in the country. I disagree with him, and so does the Times’ own editorial board, but it doesn’t mean his perspective isn’t worth reading.

I mean...It happens to women all the time. ALL THE TIME.
I’m glad this is making you shocked, so maybe you see it in a new light but....
Uh yeah, Terry Crews is getting treated the way women get treated by so many men when they do what Crews is doing.

26 years of data begs to differ:

The first scenario is impossible. Public sector unions are required by law to negotiate on behalf of all workers; they cannot discriminate against non-members. So what will actually happen is the second scenario: a public sector union will negotiate on behalf of all public sector workers in a shop, the workers will…

The misgendering of Semenya is in the fact that she is advocating for Semenya to be ineligible to race with people of her gender. If telling a woman that she’s not woman enough to race with women isn’t misgendering then i don’t know what is.

Not to mention the notion that testosterone levels are all that separates men and women is junk science...

Same. I saw this post last night but couldn’t bring myself to open it. Caster and Dutee’s stories hit home for me: I have a genetic anomaly that gave me a recessive y chromosome. As such I have one non-functioning ovary and one low-functioning ovary. I’m stocky, more muscular than the other women in my family and have…

Obviously, they hated Stephen Colbert back in the day too. That said, do you think the set would have been perceived differently if it was a man telling the jokes? Is she being dinged for not playing nice, like a good girl should?

I mean. If I drank Drano followed by fish oil I’d still die horribly.

Valid question. I think it’s comparable to the use of “Nazi”.

Look, what I did wasn’t murder-murder. That absolutely wasn’t murder, because when you use the word murder you mean I mashed his head into the shaggy carpet with the tire lever. Don’t just throw that word around. What I did was more like a gentle ushering of his consciousness through the tunnel that reaches into the…

I love Westworld. The mythology of the Old West was it was this place where you could “reinvent yourself.” The cost of that reinvention was always oppression (typically Indians and other POC). The robots on the show function as a good metaphor for the outcomes of imperialism. Looking forward to seeing the subjugated…

I have lupus, heart disease, spina bifida, and chronic kidney failure. Dealing with those things has made me realize that most people are either self-absorbed assholes or just don’t understand what it’s like to have a serious health condition until they develop one. The kidney failure isn’t too bad, but it makes me…

Wow, SNS starting early tonight! Woot!

Yeah, a friend of mine has fibromyalgia and it’s no exaggeration to say it rules her life. She has a bachelor’s degree and fluency in a second language and planned to go into national politics, but her constant pain has ruled that out. She’s still very active in local politics and works for non-profits, but she’s said…