...played by Emma Stone

For everyone commenting with anecdotes about their Hapa friends/relatives/dog walkers/random persons: NOT THE FUCKING POINT.

I look forward to the Republican candidate for President posing with republican Caitlyn.

Is there a uterine equivalent of rosebudding?

Is this supposed to be some sort of adoring gaze? My dog looks at me like this when I put him in the bathtub.

THERE’S NO REASON FOR THIS MOVIE TO EXIST THE ORIGINAL POINT BREAK IS PERFECT

I will never understand how anyone can support the death penalty, In the US there have been so many studies shown that black people are more likely to face death penalty than white people and that the murderers of white victims were 4.3 times more likely to be sentenced to death than those who killed black victims.…

I’m a disabled person who works part-time at a non-profit and who lives in one of the poorest parts of the UK, where wages for even full-time workers are well below the national average. But whenever I feel sad about this, I can now take comfort in the fact that my standard of living apparently represents quality…

See, the thing about the “Taylor Swift is a Robot built by an evil, and yet surprisingly prone to bitchy infighting, corporation” joke is that I’ve done it so many times that, really, nobody should find it funny, least of all me. I barely remember why it started.

Did you read that Salon.com article too? They talked all about Taylor’s growing up, how she became a popstar and how she is in no way the underdog that the media make her out to be. I knew she was rich but I didn’t realise she was banking dynasty rich. Also I had no idea that she wasn’t even southern and that she…

Man, Amy has been KILLING it lately. You go girl.

It was a brilliant takedown of the Cosby defense.

I think this is the best post here. It’s literally impossible to teach any kind of lit without bringing up some nasty stuff, so (to start) students should be aware that when they sign up for a class they might be getting into some dark territory (especially Greek mythology/early drama/etc). I also think a professor…

Issues like this illustrate just how white and male-dominated higher education has always been, particularly when juxtaposed with the uproar about Dr. Saida Gundy’s remarks that challenged the white patriarchy. Comparing the two, it’s quite clear that, while students want to be challenged in a context-responsive way…

I agree with this. As a teacher who plunged into discussing a poem about suicide then realised one girl was sobbing at the back of the class (later found out her uncle had just committed suicide), a simple ‘head’s up’ content warning eliminates potentially incredibly upsetting experiences for students.

This. I’ve always been a voracious reader and I delved into adult fiction and classics when I was rather young, which means I was exposed to adult themes at a young age - I definitely needed help to understand what I was reading. But I was lucky to have parents and teachers that saw teaching opportunities rather than…

Thank you for this—this is a great piece. There’s so much hand-wringing about trigger warnings and censorship and people yelling about how “being offended doesn’t make you right,” and I think it’s all kind of a red herring. Of course students should be challenged, of course professors shouldn’t be constrained—nobody’s…

It’s not just a sin. It’s also a felony.

Two five year olds looking at each other’s wee wees are “Playing Doctor”. A 15 year old adolescent molesting a five year old is not. Never mind that there were multiple victims, multiple occasions over several years, and often the victims were originally asleep, so they weren’t ‘playing’ anything.