Das Evil Rabbit, I’m replying to the numbskulls you quoted, not you.

Alumna here. I’m glad that football team stood up and that Wolfe resigned. I’m a little disappointed that Johnathan Butler’s hunger strike, which was essentially the catalyst for the football team’s strike, is relegated to a parenthetical in this article. This timeline from the student newspaper might be of interest.

Thanks so much for the info!! I appreciate it a bunch. I definitely think we’d have to get a roomba if we got a cat, but all the rest was stuff I had never heard of. Thanks again!

Can I ask what workarounds for allergies worked for you? My boyfriend is allergic to cats, and we’re not sure what will work best so we can get a fuzzy.

I spent far too long figuring how it could be raining and humid at 17 degrees. Then I realized you were in Celsius. Thanks (sincerely) for reminding me that everywhere is not America :-)

I was absolutely expecting that pull-quote from Williams to be made up for comedy’s sake. I thought the parenthetical underneath was going to be your admission of making it up. I cannot believe that was actually his comment.

That’s absolutely the right idea. It would definitely be weird to say “A record number of females are joining...”

“Women/women” is a noun, and “female” is an adjective. We generally don’t use “women/woman” as a modifier, like “woman firefighter,” and we wouldn’t use the adjective form “female” without a noun after it.

I don’t live in Lake County but I work there, and the outrage and support for this officer’s “execution” was intense and super-racist. My old hs English teacher and a few others changed their fb pictures to “Blue Lives Matter” and talked about the “war on police”.

Classic.

I’m honestly curious; why do you provide the actors’ names in parentheses (Eccleston and Theroux), but Mary is just Mary, not Mary (Janel Moloney)?

My Halloween go-to:

I thought the first Medusa reference was just Rachel being snarky, and I giggled. I wish I still thought that. Now I’m sad.

I don’t totally disagree with you. I’m generally very interested in the debate happening on this article. My issue was primarily with her equating students at one university’s protest against hosting her as the idea that these same people think she shouldn’t be allowed to speak, ever, “anywhere.” They didn’t threaten…

That’s certainly true. But I hate it when people feel all persecuted and exaggerate like that. I’m surprised she didn’t trot out a “freedom of speech” argument.

“What they are saying is that because I don’t think surgery will turn a man into a woman I should not be allowed to speak anywhere.”

Authorized or unauthorized?

For reals. She’s a pretty strong character, and then, ugh.

Yes to everything. The last ten minutes ruin everything before them, but you’re exactly right, she’s certainly not a one-dimensional piece of window-dressing.

Also, last year I was working with an adult student from Peru who was having trouble pronouncing “American” Rs; i.e., not rolling them. She really went for it on the word “refrigerator” and we both laughed for a solid minute because she sounded EXACTLY like someone doing a John Wayne impression.