I love how, continually, interest gets left out. Cause that’s where the real burn is for so many of us. Paying off the principal? Fine. We agreed to do it. Getting absolutely shafted on interest to the point of never even touching the principal is unfortunately more of the reality. Subtracting 10k doesn’t mean jack whe…

My mom’s friend’s husband was in a position to know him back in the day and said he was not only corrupt to the core but...dumb as a bag of rocks. That’s a terrible combination. And its definitely on display here!

Not sure if you have boobs, but as someone who does and also has had some trauma, someone unexpectedly grabbing my boob reads to my nervous system as pretty much the same thing. I like your posts and you seem like a good person. Please don’t minimize this. Thanks. 

Ugh and yikes, those threats feel so OJ evocative.

This is such a great comparison!

Oh my god, me too.

Eh, evil ages you funny. He looks a good 10 years older than 44.

Maybe it’s just because I’m becoming an old and remember HBO as *the* channel for prestige TV, but isn’t it kinda hurting the brand to be merging it with Flip or Flop and folding laundry TV?

Exactly

Eh, the commercialization of feminism would make any attempt so cringy now. A gathering of influencers and female empowerment sponsored by Bank of America. I know the 90s had its fair share of greed, ridiculousness and exploitation, but I also remember that the worst thing you could call someone was a poser (well…

Oh man, this feels so fraught. I can totally appreciate the efforts to destigmatize and to also block the (classic) GOP projections about pedophilia. At the same time, if the cases we’re looking at are by a vast majority gay men, and we recognize that those gay men are human beings who are hugging and in contact with…

I remember when Hillbilly Elegy came out and he was lionized as one of the insightful, thoughtful, reachable Republicans- a la Romney or, right now, Liz Cheney. And while I really hate splitting anything into all good or bad, the truth is anyone who hasn’t defected from the republican party right now, Romeny and…

I know. The literalness of the left blows my mind sometimes. And it’s a banger to boot. We kinda need all the empowerment songs we can get right now. Our fear of aggression is doing us no favors.

That’s probably in the mix too! But the speed at which we’re actively working against our own self interest, robber barons included, feels like more than just nihilism.

I agree that those diets are BS and marketing.

Freud called it the death instinct. The greed, corruption, and myopia is obvious and real but when it comes to making the planet inhabitable there’s also a more unconscious self-destructiveness here on the part of human kind that’s complex and layered. Too bad we probably won’t last long enough to figure it out.

Um...I think the mass rape and torture of the women of Ukraine by Russians might be Jezebel’s bailiwick. Instead of posting the same article over and over about one woman being treated unjustly by Russia while all of the aforementioned raping and torturing is happening in the background. But yeah, sarcasm’s cooler.…

I think the thing is he’s never actually been fucking Biden over, he’s just been fucking us over. Biden’s gonna be fine no matter what and he knows it. For them, at end of the day, this has all been nothing but a contentious game of tennis between colleagues.

Just want to point out the number of Brittney Griner articles (daily?) vs the number of articles about the atrocities being committed against the people of Ukraine (um, when was the last one?). I get this is a (supposedly) feminist website and not dearly departed Splinter, but can we start with this?

Yes, exactly. I think inclusive means ‘and’ rather than rigidly replacing one word with another, which to be honest, we on the Left love to do. As long as there’s no hierarchical differences in the treatment between the two (or many) nouns joined by that ‘and’, we should be good :)