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I don’t think they can do anything enforceable, but I do think it’s worth noting that this IS appropriation, even if it has been happening for a long time. My great grandfather was Purepecha from the state of Michoacan in Mexico and he and his siblings were told to stop wearing their indigenous clothing when they went…

Wouldn’t it be amazing if this information signaled to policy leaders and decision makers that women need sufficient time off from work to have their infants reap the greatest benefits of breastfeeding?

HAHAHA. Yeah. Right. Instead it will only cause moms to feel guilty and for shitty people to shame moms for pumping…

“We didn't exclude you! We just told everyone who has a penis that we were getting together. You could have totally come! No one said you couldn't."

“We didn’t mean to exclude you, we just happened to get together, oh and while we hung out we made a bunch of decisions, here they are.” Like we don’t get exactly what happened and that it was very intentional, especially in smaller groups.

True. I’m one of the only women in my field, and all the pre-meeting and lunch chatter is about either sports or hunting (SO BORING) so I usually show up just as meetings are starting and if it’s an all day meeting, I’ll go run errands and eat on my own during the break. But one all-day, highly contentious meeting was…

You see, ladies, there’s the fake meeting/conference and the real meeting/conference.

Trigger warnings provide information in advance so people can make informed decisions about the material that they are about to view. This concept has been around forever, that’s why there are ratings on movies and television that say that, for example, nudity will be shown.

Yeah, I think this is maybe a situation where one person’s “gratuitous” is another person’s “unflinching and honest.”

its beginning to feel like rape has become a standard in the movie industry. you have a female lead? well then shes got to be raped. Frankly if the only way you know how to portray “incredibly sensitive issues” is through extremely gratuitous violence, thats not edgy, its bad writing and lazy directing.

THANK. YOU.

The State Fair of Texas is an horrific crime.

I wish directors didn’t pretend like their choices are about educating the public and making the world a better place. Just do what I’ve seen Tarantino do recently when he gets asked about the violence in his films and say “it’s my movie, this is how I wanted it to be, no one has to see it, but I’m not going to…

I don’t want to pretend those things don’t happen, but at this point, I can’t deal with scenes like that anymore. Watching Irreversible fucked me up and although I do look at film/television as more than just entertainment, I still don’t want to watch someone be brutalized as part of my entertainment experience.

I’ve…

This. I had a similar argument with a troll during the Great Gawker Troll Attack (not sure how long ago, but a group of trolls decided to post the most violent images and extreme sex-related imagery on the comment boards here. Stuff like severed heads, bombing victims and scat porn. Not sure why they started doing it…

Honestly, Planet Hollywood (and/or Hardrock) should fully embrace the nostalgia of it. Nowadays, 80s and 90s themed popups are all the rage among young folks, influencers, and older folks looking to relive a moment of their younger years.

Paying you to spend that kind of time to do that just to save some....TEST TUBES???!!!? What the hell kind of test tubes WERE they? Made of diamond encrusted titanium and signed by The Beatles? That seems like a colossal waste of time and money when destroying the tissue samples in a medical waste incinerator and…

I have horrible memories of working in a milk bottling factory one summer as a teenager. Hours screwing caps onto bottles; pushing carts, empty and full, up and down the factory; loading and emptying trucks. All in a half inch of watered down milk, the building built on a slight slope so that everything washes away.…

Summer after Senior year in high school, I worked at a Renaissance Fair in the south. I operated the Dragon Ride, where folks would climb up to a tall platform and climb aboard a wooden dragon on a rope, kind of like a zip line only the dragon sat on the rope with wheels and the person sat on the dragon. I…

Right? The statement was hella disturbing to me. Why doesn’t Beyonce just say something on HER instagram? Why are they framing this as some namby pamby message of love instead of saying “this is shitty bad behavior and you need to stop not because Beyonce asked you to, but because you are shitty bad people”?