Catherine the Great has to be a dream project for a costume designer, and it’s also a tall order thanks to the astounding and timeless work Travis Banton did for Marlene Dietrich as (young) Catherine in The Scarlet Empress.

It must be strange for him when he thinks about it. Because waiting to become king is the same thing as waiting for his mother’s death.

As an EY alum who was denied a promotion because I was pregnant, then laid off six months to the day after returning from maternity leave, this is the least surprising thing I have ever seen.

What an extremely normal thing to have to do, good thing our society isn’t diseased and depraved. This is also why we need to elect Biden, he can speak to these economically anxious folks who are just good people deep down, y’all.

The racist is the most fragile and insecure snowflake of all.

I wonder what could be $puring this intere$t in $hilling ¢BD for people who make Money on in$tagram. 

If you’re at a table with 11 people having a polite conversation with a Nazi, you’re at a table with a dozen Nazis.

BTW, spare us this “whataboutism” and Fox New. What the hell about them? This is about NBC, now. Fox already had their reckoning. Sure, it’s rich to be going to talk on Fox about this, but it doesn’t make the problem at MSNBC any less real, nor if Fox the only place this is being talked about.

In fairness, I doubt it was just NBC in the news biz. I’m in a different biz and the big harassers are similarly whispered about and well known. The problem comes for women - young and older - who take jobs from outside that network. They are seldom on the grapevine and get harassed before they get warned (sometimes).…

Wrong wrong wrong. Everybody knows that mermen writhe around the mermaids in a frenzied erotic dance, much like the grunion, until they eject massive quantities of roe and sperm into the water which intermix and fertilize, external of any merbodies. The mermen then return to the briny depths not to be seen again until…

Oh, if this was 1938, she’d be under an Aryan or Mosley brownshirt, trying to procreate to keep the race “pure” in a second.

And what did Parker Posie ever do to deserve having this troll co-opt her good name?

“Social Conservative Unites With Extreme Conservative” is a less catchy, but more accurate headline.

These are white women with hate in their heart joining up with white men with hate in their heart.

“Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (better known as her pseudonym Posie Parker”

Glad to see Jennifer Lawrence’s wedding menu looks like every other wedding menu ever. If I had that kind of money, I’d serve a menu of all the foods you have to surreptitiously google under the table while the waiter’s back is turned. If you can pronounce it, you can’t have it.

But here’s the thing: why does that even matter? By saying abortion should be rare, you’re conceding there is something bad about abortion and there’s not. Also it is people having opinions on other peoples’ medical treatment. I don’t sit here going “quadruple bypass surgery should be safe, legal, and rare” which is…

As someone who lives in a country where contraceptives are provided free and sex education is provided, at least beyond the level of abstinence only and abortions are also available for free, we have a higher abortion rate than you do (17.4 per 1,000 women, vs 11.9 per 1,000 women, I believe). I don’t think that rare…

I think I’d like it if we focused on needing fewer of them, because young people are getting comprehensive sex ed and practicing safe sex as a result, not because we shouldn’t be getting them. I guess that is kind of what they were saying? But I don’t think access should be limited in any way, shape, or form.

Yes, ^this.^ We pay about $300/mo for a family plan, which is a pittance compared to most people. If our taxes went up but that $300/mo went back into our pockets that’s a win.