She kinda comes off as an entitled jerk. It doesn’t read as threatening as a man’s entitlement might be, but that comment about race is pretty shitty. She doesn’t know him and she doesn’t know if he’d think that’s funny.

You’re completely right about the Wall Street experience. I wish there was less emphasis on that for the Treasury Department. I, too, think it’s a bad thing. Although, coming from Silicon Valley isn’t much better.

Don’t tell Jack Lew.
Or Timothy Geithner.
Or Henry Paulson.

Somehow the fact that she’s not a man and not from Goldman Sachs feels like progress, which is really fucking sad.

People are demanding that I cancel the event. Some are threatening dire consequences for The Commons. What has brought us to this?”

I remember reading one of her letters when she was getting out. She had studied psychology at Queen’s and she was remarkably bright and also completely lacking in self-awareness; it was so fucking disturbing.

Brock (fuck that lame sounds creepy alone — apologies to all the non-creepy Brocks — both of you) seems to be…

Oh hell no!

I’m a former dancer and a lot of my friends are b-boys and b-girls. Fuck. This. Shit. Columbussing a streetdancer’s space and then being like, “what are they doing here?” It only happens like 90% of the time.

Next time I meet a fellow yuppie, I’ll just ask them, “are you smuggling the desperate life of a drug mule inside of those hollow bromides?”

Rant:

All these guys coming here to comment that they always knew about consent: fuck you.

I’m a guy. I was sexually assaulted by another man in 2001. Even then, I still didn’t understand what had happened to me until 12 years later. There are layers of understanding.

I’m not saying Nate Parker is cool. I’m not going to…

Wow! I’m saving what you wrote in my notes. That’s really cool to know and also interesting that European cultures have done this before.

Yes! This is (kind of) my working definition of hipsterism. A human centipede of white culture that no longer directly appropriates from POC. It’s watered down water, its references, already referential.

Post-appropriation “culture”.

I’m imagining the following PR pitch: “People seem to think you guys are pro-rape. Have you tried shitting on the legacy of Marvin Gaye?”

Shouldn’t that be “capital” (as in seat of government), not “capitol” (as in legislative building in a republic)?

!!!

I don’t even like Jared Leto (or dislike him), but he’s fucking killing it in those photos. Killing it!

Oh shit. That was mean.

Every time I see some tech company hand wring about how their racial diversity numbers are a pipeline problem, I get so fucking angry. They are fucking lying.

Spaghetti are the second worst pasta ever (spaghettini is the absolute worst).

A pasta eater’s life can be completed by Fusilli and Linguini alone, although Rotini and Fettuccini will do.

Fuck spaghetti... and obviously, as Lauren points out in more eloquent terms, fuck this sandwich too.

I’m guessing the same too, but I Lorde is pretty hard to twist into bromides. Still, I’m always curious how the mind of the rich detached pseudo progressive works — appropriating stuff beyond all meaning. Like, people talk about the sham of prep school diversity and whatnot, but how do the white minds that come out of…