Seeing earnest Elf on the Fucking Shelf posts by parents on Facebook actually makes my heart shrink two sizes. I am now at -22367236 for heart size. I'm a goddam medical miracle.
You get yours, Nancy.
This one is clearly a missive sent directly from North Korea. The English is far too good to be an actual Sony document.
This is the second time this week I'll comment on the word choice in a Jezebel headline that I feel minimizes the women's experience, because I feel the word "heckling" mitigates what actually happened. In my opinion, what the dildo-throwers did was more than interrupt or otherwise annoy someone speaking in public.…
I would support expulsion. Those men created an extremely hostile environment for fellow students. The Facebook threats—because that's what some of the comments were—were public methods of systematically intimidating other students, by sexual and physical threats. Their comments were also demeaning, sad attempts at…
I think this is relevant to the larger discussion: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/no…
The chapter should be closed on campus. End of story. Completely unacceptable.
You do not respond to a peaceful protest, even one you disagree with, by throwing things and mass intimidation tactics. Or, if you do choose to be a giant dickwad, you get to suffer the consequences, which should be MORE THAN A SLAP ON THE…
Re Lauer:
She just told Laverne Cox "what racism is." Whoopi just told a woman transgender POC what racism is. Because Laverne Cox needs schooling on what it means to deal with systematic marginalization of her existence?
Shut up, Whoopi. Please take your farts and retire.
We knew that, though. She sort of has a racially tone-deaf personal history (doesn't say much for her sense of humor, either):
I live in Portland. They just voted to not fluoridate the city water. Reasoning: Because YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME DON'T PUT STUFF IN MY WATER.
My parents grew up in cities without fluoridated water. In a few years, there's gonna be a lot of Portlanders—especially children—with shitty teeth and all the nastiness and…
I wish Diane Sawyer had responded by explaining to her that probably a crack dealer thought there was no need "to bring ink and paper into this." End of transaction.
I don't believe this has to be a losing battle, or I would never leave the house. We each take responsibility for our own words. Me, I'm gonna call it sexual assault because it's my opinion that's what these acts are and my voice. I refuse to personally contribute to minimizing women's experiences by candy-coating…
No worries. I was so mad when I wrote it, it probably wasn't my most clear communication of thoughts.
Btw, I think I Knija'd this sentiment twice because this one didn't show up for me and I felt it was important for me to say. ;)
Isha, I don't mean to pick on you but we need to start naming these incidents for what they are: sexual assaults, or alleged sexual assaults. This is not simply a "shower scandal," as the title states. Sharing any stolen images or images of non-consenting individuals is sexual assault.
It isn't about just seeing…
I always felt like it was a Class A case of her believing her own PR...and then her PR people believing their own BS, too. And somehow a myth was born because their spin of her being an early recognized and visible woman journalist in a male-dominated field (accurate) led to them acting as if this achievement alone…
I have one more thing to say. Isha, I don't mean to pick on you but can we call this what it is? It isn't a "shower scandal," it's allegations of mass sexual assault and harassment. We want to change things and say words matter? Let's call this shit the fuck out.
And cell phone hacks, upskirts, etc...all the same…
No. I am responding to Vice Admiral Assdouche's comment where he mentions the women's professional performance at all. It has ZERO to do with a goddam thing. No fucking reason for him to bring up whether they are superstars or failures in the Navy. In his asshole attempt to spin mass sexual assault in a positive way,…