I would think (no kids, not Jewish, but I’m Pagan, so I can relate a little bit at least to the “minority religion that conservative Christians hate and sometimes threaten” thing) that part of Not Letting It Get to You requires a safe space where you can let it get to you for a little while. If some of the kids are…

I’m an omnivore with Northern European enzymes, so I eat ALL THE DAIRY, and coconut milk ice cream is objectively delicious. Now I want some...

I live inland in southern California, and heat has been known to trigger my migraines, so I totally feel you. I much prefer spring and fall. Sorry about your lack of AC. Can you spend all your time at the library or something?

Weirdly, hypnotism. There are a bunch of videos on YouTube, especially for sleep. And it’s not like the sideshow act AT ALL, just more like being super focused. Ambien makes you black out and do crazy shit, real hypnotism doesn’t.

There is never not a good reason to use that gif.

There was a point in my childhood that I spent a lot of time throwing my Barbies into trees. Because I figured out that if she hit the branch JUST RIGHT her body would shatter into it’s various parts, which I could then snap back together and DO IT AGAIN. After the first time I learned that you have to rip the head…

I’m about halfway through season 1 and it’s pretty good. Not particularly mind-blowing, but it’s cool to see them shake up the sitcom tropes a bit.

I’m seeing a lot of comments about how that’s shitty advice and the writer is just acquiescing to the patriarchy, etc., but not a lot of alternate advice. Here’s the thing, though. Academic jobs don’t grow on trees, and women in the sciences face a ton of major hurdles that make “staring at my boobs” look feminist. I…

I think it might be the only movie I’ve seen on the big screen more than once. And the only movie in a LOOONG time that I’ve been really excited by. SO GOOD.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but this movie was everything my feminist rage needed to jump up and down and yell “FUCK YEAH” for a little while before remembering the real world and being ragey again. It made my feminist rage smile a big happy smile.

Terry Gilliam approves.

Stay classy, Orange County.

It’s true. And we also pretty much instantly regretted it. It was like that really stupid thing we did that time we got drunk with Utah.

The difference, in my experience, between history and literature is that, yeah, if you’re taking a class in Serbian war crimes you know what you’re getting into, and the professor is probably at least mostly prepared to teach a disturbing topic. But if the class is just called “Ovid’s Metamorphoses,” if you’re not…

At about 3 I bolted in a crowd, and it took several minutes for my parents to find me. I can’t imagine the horror they must have felt. Leashed after that, and if I remember it at all, it’s incredibly vague and I’m not sure it’s a real memory. Kids are mobile long before they have any common sense or any clue what…

Yes, reasonably common. A lot of Americans still associate pot use with low moral character, and lots of employers don’t want Those Kinds of People working for them.

I have zero experience with this, but if you have or can cultivate a good relationship with an understanding doctor (your local rape hotline might have recommendations, and might even have dealt with this situation before), could you find out about doing pelvic exams under some kind of anaesthesia? If they do it for…

Sounds fun, and if you know for a fact that his wife is ok with it, and if he’s not trying to pressure you into anything you’re truly uncomfortable with, enjoy it while it lasts. My only caveat would be to make SURE you’re using good protection and that you’re both getting tested for STIs. If he pushes back on either…

Yeah, and what if Shania Twain’s mom had gotten an abortion? Doesn’t anybody ever think of the space-time continuum????

If meat is ok, then pulled pork. Buy a boneless pork roast—it’s generally not very expensive, and you can get them at Costco for relatively cheap, or see if there’s one in the 50%-off section of the meat dept. Put it in a crock pot with some seasonings (last time I used salt, pepper, rosemary, and lemon peel) and…