Theory: People who need this much booze to get it on have zero technique, savoir-faire and general sexy-times skillz. If any of the women on this show has ever had an orgasm from a partner, I will eat my shorts. If any of the hetero men on this show has ever made anyone orgasm, I will eat a second pair of shorts. I am…

A well meaning non-black friend was upset that Michelle Obama didn’t work when she became First Lady but focused on raising her children (and you know, actually being First Lady). I had to kindly explain to her that black women having been working outside of the home since the moment they stepped foot in this country…

I mean, he’s right though. I love Olivia de Havilland and have lots of respect for her, but if she’d won then any real person who’d ever been portrayed in film or TV would have precedent to sue for damages if they aren’t consulted to give approval of how they’re portrayed. That’s everyone from Sarah Palin to Donald…

I tend to agree. The ways this bill hurts sex workers could be easily remedied if we instead focused on making sex work legal and safe, without sacrificing the way the bill tries to protect trafficking victims.

Looking at the description above the vote, it looks like it’s sex during a dangerous situation (i.e. the apocalypse) which is actually what gave me pause for voting for it because I’m super practical and I would just be annoyed about having sex while zombies were knocking on the door.

A few for me is like...seven, and given that in the post-apocalypse I don’t think I get birth control, that bleeding is heavy. I’m leaving a little splatter trail wherever I go. I think I’d suck it up and eat my cats if it meant not having rotten blood all over everything forever. :(

Y’all are way too attached to your pets. You WANT to have blood clotting up on every surface you touch forever?

Samantha also tried to discourage her from running.

From the beginning, Riley has slept in a crate in the bedroom (the only time he’s crated—we aren’t monsters). He’s happy and we’re happy and we all sleep soundly.

So much for the people who insist porn is a “healthy outlet” populated by happy well adjusted people with broad minded outlooks on personal freedoms. For the hetro men, maybe. The whole industry is sordid and sleazy, just look at the stats on how short a time most women can handle the business. Makes me sad.

Piggybacking on your “in other undermining Trump news” to post this great interview with Jane Mayer about her article covering the Steele dossier. Pivotal information.

I thought she was working only part time hours and made $500 a week. That’s $25 an hour, assuming part time means 20 hours a week. That is definitely not being overworked and underpaid for a nanny. Are families supposed to pay over $24,000 a year for part-time childcare to not be considered “cheap”?

Sure, she can bring it up, but just like when a rapist says his victim’s outfit was a contributing factor in his decision to commit rape, we are allowed to recognize it as a bullshit excuse and call it out as such. Hopefully the jury will agree with us in this case.

I don’t think it’s unreasonable either! I think about the privilege that my children have moving through the world, and am trying to make awareness and activism a strong focus of my parenting with both of my children (because white women are beneficiaries of racism too). And yet *gestures upthread at a certain asshole*

See this is the thing... I had assumed, if it was a girl, that my biggest challenge would be protecting her from the world. Once it was a boy, all I could think of (and again, this was an intense and irrational fear of mine) was that my biggest challenge would be protecting the world from him. So I get both sides of…

My first thought when I found out I was having a boy was ‘fuck I hope he doesn’t rape anyone’. Pregnancy makes your brain work in funny ways.

I didn’t find out my kid’s sex while pregnant because I *knew* that if it were a boy I would flip the hell out about raising a rapist or mass shooter, and thus be unable to enjoy my pregnancy at all. Sure enough, he was born a boy. 3.5 years later, I still worry about this alot. I mean, he’s an incredibly…

NGL, I wanted a girl when I got pregnant the first time. (I did not get a girl.) I remember finding out the gender like... one month? two? after the Boston marathon bombing, and in typical hormonal preggo fashion became OBSESSED with the possibility of my kid becoming a terrorist or mass shooter. Fortunately, this has…

eta: How the fuck do you end up in Charlottesville as a tourist?

Uh Monticello? Ashlawn? Blue Ridge Parkway and Three Notch’d Brewery? This is a beautiful town. Take the statues and put them on private land where no one will bother. Where they are now, you can’t NOT see them. Also, there are more around town, but I have no idea who they are.