Obama liked to use the quote: “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” I don’t think this is true. I think the arc of the universe bends towards comfort. The one constant you can say about human civilization is that it’s always more comfortable to be alive today than it was yesterday. And…

I imagine that they are totally against the gays.

Molestation is a crime of compulsion. A person doesn't find an opportunity to do it once and then never do it again. This is the only allegation leveled against Woody Allen of this nature and it was commandeered by Mia Farrow. I have no doubts that Dylan Farrow believes that something happened to her. I have no doubts…

I can’t balance out #believe women with the documentary Capturing the Friedmans, about how easy it is to get kids to invent memories, as well as Moses’s Farrow’s account of the day in question, which is completely different.

The complete lack... no, the willing abnegation... of agency in some of these is astounding. “God decides this stuff...” so you shouldn’t bother doing anything. The Bible says so, so everything will be fine. The man in charge says everything is ok, so why bother thinking otherwise?

Open an account, buy a share or two of a minimally managed index fund with the lowest fees and then forget about it for 30-40 years

The secret to success is investing consistently and for the long term. 

I prefer a cotton thigh-high. Double layered is good for hiking. Always want a nice thick pair for bumming around the house on a cold day. Bombas makes some pretty comfy ones, though a little pricey.

Surely rural Vermont and the Seattle metro area have different trends going.  All the teens I see look like some unholy nightmare of the shit I wore in the 90s.  Go into Urban Outfitters, and be horrified by all the wide-wale corduroy and crushed velour and mock-turtle necks...

I completely agree with you about the weirdness (and baselessness) of wanting to present Depp as a blameless victim in this whole affair. He quite clearly has some dangerous violent and abusive tendencies, and a lot of Depp stans and MRA types completely ignore that.

I remember when Jezebel had actual feminists and humanists who would call out others for snarking over someone getting murdered or domestic violence, no matter whether it happened to a woman or a man. Because they understood violence is horrible no matter who it happens to and hurts all of us in society.

THIS. Came to say the same thing. But as some may have noticed, I don’t agree with how jez writes about anything anymore because they are nothing but petty little children now.

So, Jez writes about this but not the audio tapes in which Amber admits to violent behavior (hitting him & throwing cookware), complains that Johnny “splits” during fights, blames him for perpetuating fights because he leaves the room but not the house, admits to having a volatile temper, says she cant promise to not…

It would be nice if there was a whole conversation available for context. They are ugly texts but they aren’t threatening — they weren’t even to Amber. Pretty much everybody has either vented or said something unkind about another person before. I’ve seen several people on this site wish death upon others.

Why are they covering this story this way on a feminist blog- inviting careless jokes like this one? It seems infotainment of the worst kind. A woman wouldn’t be spoken of in this way. This makes me very uncomfortable. 

Switch the murderer to the murdered, and the murdered to the murderer - and none of these jokes would be occurring right now.

Couldn’t Nintendo have sent Tsusaka’s grandmother a Switch as a replacement? Or at least a New Nintendo 2DS XL

Yeah, that’s a really knee-jerk reaction and a way to ruin the sorta happy ending of the story. Nintendo could have just commented on the impossibility of repairing the handheld and be done with it but they still managed to send a brand new replacement which is the point of the story.

Uhm.

I wasn’t aware hand washing was effeminate or that “men” lacked common sense. Which “men” are we talking about?