goodnight, you’re more fuckin’ annoying than my gay roommate. i think you’re full of shit. better troll job than darrell marrell on the gawker site.

Here fundamentalist Muslims practice for the “Dead Swan Lake for Drowning Infidels” ballet.

i’m not a particularly religious person so i see all this shit through the same lens. i don’t understand why we disparage, say, conservative christians who forbid makeup and make their daughters wear ankle-length skirts on their chaperoned dates but celebrate hijabs like they’re some kind of personal statement.

Yeah, that’s about where my support stops. If you willingly take on a role in another company and the designer is like “nope, that doesn’t work with my vision” I think as a performer you should either relent or quit. I doubt every single performer is 100% comfortable with what the designer makes them wear, but they do…

That’s because that’s all it is: a patriarchal symbol, despite what Jezzies would like you to believe.

i just can’t see the hijab as anything but a patriarchal symbol. unpopular opinion, i know.

Eeeeh... ballet costumes typically don’t conform to the standards of modesy in place for hijab-wearing muslims. The reality is that hijabis don’t learn ballet.

That’s cool at your own performing arts institution. At anyone else’s, you have the right to wear what the costume designer tells you to.

A girl at a bar told me a really good/bad joke yesterday.

You can thank the Olympics for making this a priority.

It’s not like anyone is able to turn out vaccines in a twinkling as soon as they start work on it. See: HIV/AIDS, etc.

I remember reading a few years ago that mosquitos aren’t even really in the food chain and actually are one of the few species that could be eradicated without any repercussions.

I would really like it if every single article about Zika pointed out that the countries that are hardest hit and are recommending that women delay conception are countries where abortion is 100% illegal and contraception is very hard to access.

I keep hearing that they have to be careful to only target the Zika carrying breed of mosquito and protect the others.

The corruption of their ideological view becomes apparent in situations like this. It’s mental illness and islamophobia. If this was a teenage boy it would be blamed on a toxic and entitled masculinity.

To be fair, it came in the wake of a bunch of seemingly legitimate accusations, so I imagine she just thought “well if it’s happening to everyone else this is an easy excuse.”

50 shekels of silver. I believe that is the standard rate according to biblical law. To be paid as a lump sum or in monthly installments to the woman’s father.

How much are we talking here?

Maybe I’m old fashioned but if I was sexually assaulted, I’d at the very least like to get paid for it