I think it's odd in general to think of a relationship as a job. I'm a wife but I don't think of myself as a psychologist, financial advisor, chef, prostitute and laundress. As a friend I don't think of myself as a events manager, life coach, psychologist, companion and career counselor. That's weird. All of our…

Not a normal-sized bag, either. A massive garbage bag. One of those goddamn 57-gallon yard waste bags. Full of dicks. You won't believe how massive the bag of dicks Upworthy can suck is! It will BLOW YOUR MIND.

My thoughts are similar, though long winded:

It more than the words even. Its the whole segment using transphobic language and bringing cis women into it. Making fun of Chyna? Not fucking cool. Even if I gave some credence to gay cis men 'reclaiming' the word in question(I don't for the record), how does that excuse explain making fun of cis women who don't…

Whitewashing history is still totally cool, though, right?

After my husband put his 2 weeks in as GM of a family restaurant (so you know this is gonna be good), they were on a 30 minute wait on a Friday night. Two women came in with 5 kids, so a 7 top. They're quoted 40 minutes, and after 10, start bitching to the host stand about how terrible they are at doing their jobs,…

True American heroes.
"Then I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be ever'where—wherever you look. Wherever they's a fight so already fed people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever they's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there, (to help the cop out.) I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad and having their…

Don't be insulting to dinosaurs.

Time to bring back a favorite video and song.

This past week we had The Day of Pink, where the kids are asked to wear pink as an anti bullying thing. Anyways, a lot of kids don't own anything pink, so I get some pink ribbon at the dollar store, and let any kid in my Grade 1 class who wants to wear pink but doesn't have any pink clothes pin some ribbon on instead.

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What's stupid about this (in addition to everything you've said) is that students don't get free speech at school. They don't have a right to it. So they can scream free speech all day, but school policy is school policy and you don't have to fully adhere to the First Amendment in that setting. They also don't have…

When you wear t-shirts like this not on any other day but on the one day which is supposed to highlight how the dominant culture, yours, silences LGBT youth by bullying and harassment, this isn't about you being free to express your opinions. This is about you staking a claim to the right to bully, the right to…

I'm always surprised when FB friends of mine express admiration and support for kids like this. Like those kids who wanted to wear American flag T-shirts on Mexican Independence Day (was that the day it was—I can't remember which holiday it was?). The school threatened to send anyone who wore an American flag on…

I don't care if anyone disagrees with me, but I've always felt homophobia is rooted in misogyny. The most common refrain I hear from homophobic men is that gay men might hit on them or whatnot. Rush Limbaugh, for example, is obsessed with the saying that anyone with whom he disagrees wants to make him "grab his…

Exactly. Lots of patriarchies object to "allowing women to have control over... whom and when to marry", but they can't exactly come out and say it theses days.

I'm pretty sure my status as An Old has been cemented, and if it hasn't, it will be now. Spring Break '93 and my friends and I decide to fly out and crash at my roommate's brother's apartment in West Hollywood. Well, one of my friends' boyfriends was a big tattoo guy, and he wanted a t-shirt from Sunset Strip Tattoos,…

First off, I've mentioned some of my previous "celeb" encounters with George R.R. Martin (STOP FUCKING ASKING WHEN HE IS GOING TO FINISH) and Bryan Cranston, cuz I'm cool and live in NM. But my favorite of all celeb encounters was when I was nine years old....

I'm way ahead of you here. My wife's current fetus is already taking gun safety courses. All my wife has to do is spread her legs and the little guy can just take care of things himself. Harder to prosecute them when they're still in utero.

Yeah, for real. Why are we giving this idea currency? In its current usage in the mainstream, it's like a perfect distillation of "girls suck" pigeonholing. The way I've seen it used is a way for us to nurture our internalized sexism: it encourages misogynist posturing like "I'm not like those other, shitty women. I'm…