They could have issued the exact announcement they issued yesterday. Except, you know, before they actually did it instead of after.

Thanks for your input. I will certainly give it the weight it deserves.

i don’t think hiring someone for menial work requires a declaration

They hired him back in secret BECAUSE they knew the online hordes would come for them if they announced it openly.

Except I’m not asking for a public flogging. I’m asking that a company that chooses to do business with a known assaulter and that knows that choice will be controversial say “yeah, we know and we’re satisfied that he’s taken steps to stop being gross,” and letting the chips fall where they may. They spoke out against…

My objection is not that they hired him back — it’s that they re-engaged him without owning up to it. People need jobs. Companies need workers. But their secretive use of him speaks to a desire to cover up for PR reasons, which is how their support of women is performative. “We are supportive of women...except that we…

Ignoring can often head off bullying at the pass, in my experience. If you don’t react to the initial salvos, the bully may lose interest and move on. Most women do this daily when we become selectively deaf to catcalls.

If you have to resort to self defense, take every cheap shot you can.

Cool. Don’t call me from jail when a cop finds the joint your buddy lost under the seat after you consented to the search of your car.

This is definitely and unfortunately the case, but I still do it. I would rather take the chance of some degree of retaliation to protect my rights. Of course, I’m a white woman, so I have that privilege: if I were non-white, that calibration would likely be different.

Exercising my rights is not “needlessly antagonizing” police. Protecting people’s rights is the reason we have police in the first place, so they can do their job in accordance with the law or they can fuck right off.

He does love him a Magical Negro, man. The part I object to isn’t Abagail Freemantle herself, because I think King does a good job making her into a real character with real thoughts and feelings (unlike some of his other Magical Negros), but the fact that there doesn’t appear to be a single other black person in the…

Once they get to Boulder Fran and most of the other women get sidelined in favor of the Quest. I don’t dislike the rest of the book (the Harold parts are particularly well done), but I miss Nick and Fran and Larry goes a little flat and basically becomes Stu 2. So sometimes I read on, and sometimes I don’t.

‘Salem’s Lot is soooo good and scary. Poor Mark Petrie. I usually pick up The Stand again sometime each summer, although I generally stop when they get to Boulder.

Totally agree. I was a very advanced reader and when I turned twelve my mom said I was allowed to read anything I wanted. That means I read a TON of romance novels (she was very into them), but also a ton of those classics you could get really cheap. And I read all those plantation exploitation novels (Mandingo,…

THIS IS MY QUESTION. I write. I know other writers. We come up with really...ill-advised ideas. Like, really bad. Look at any fanfiction archive and you’ll see the worst of the worst and the craziest of the crazy.

Have you tried Duo Boots?

With all the information online these days, you can do a lot to avoid being ripped off. That doesn’t mean you won’t experience sexism, but if you know what you want and what you want to pay, you’ll find someone to sell it to you.

I totally agree, but both of my experiences with car saleswomen were terrible. One essentially told me she wasn’t interested in working with me if I didn’t want to buy top of the line (???) and the other never returned my calls or emails. I ended up buying a car from a dude, even though I hadn’t set out to. Woman…

One that covers my kitty. ;)