I’m a dude and modulated my tone and tenor a lot when I worked customer-facing jobs, too. For some folks it reassures them, but I don’t really know why. Whenever I talk with customer service, I try to be specific about what I want done as opposed to complaining about what is not to my liking. (cut the bullshit, focus…

What apparently began as an alcohol-fueled game of “get in the suitcase”

I think “customer service voice” is another extension of this. When I’m performing customer service my voice is several notches higher than my resting bitch voice. I know there’s been some controversy about hijacking the phrase “emotional labor” and applying it to personal relationships but I feel as though I have to…

How did no one in her circle figure out that wasn’t her voice until she got pissed and spoke in her natural voice. Two minutes into the documentary, I thought, this gurl is speaking waaaay below her register....it’s so frickin’ obvious. I wonder if she still speaks that way. BTW the book...soooo good.

1. Father-Daughter dances are held at the public schools here, but I guess you could snarkily dismiss that as flyover country ignorance.

As someone who’s been bearded since 18 and shaving since 11, I can tell you it was a response to draconian dress code rules in school. Having to shave twice a day because of an arbitrary rule was damn near traumatizing. Plus, I’ve looked 30 since about 13, so it wasn’t ruining much 

I’d had a beard for close to a decade until last year, when I decided to shave it “just to see”. Honestly, now that it’s back, I’m good with dying of beard if it comes to it.

I like a man who owns his own ignorance with pride, almost as much as one with a manly beard.

I’m a guy on the internet; I pretty much just talk out of my ass.

Fucking hell. Excuse my French, but seriously nothing less extreme is applicable here. Both of these doctors should be struck off, and Capece should serve a prison sentence for altering the consent form. There have been far too many cases of doctors taking the piss with people’s wellbeing in situations where patients…

A metoidioplasty is a surgery that some trans men opt for in place of a phalloplasty (the creation of a phallus). It largely involves cutting some ligaments that hold the clitoral structure close to the body - gives it some greater length, basically. You can google it; it’s the more common option for trans men who…

Because the families of the other victims are going to sue HER; by suing the pilot she’s trying to “prove” Kobe was not responsible for the crash. That being said, dollars to doughnuts, the pilot said, “weather’s a little iffy here folks” and Kobe said, “I pay you; take off!”

Wonder if this guy gripes about how the libs use that Thunberg girl to further their climate change hoax.... 

I get the impression that she’s casting a a wide net to get any settlement she can. I bet if the insurance company steps in, the pilots estate will become a non-issue.

What exactly is she hoping to get out of suing the pilot’s estate? I feel like it’s in poor taste, when you presumably have an enormous fortune, to sue the (presumably significantly less well-off) family of the deceased, not when you’re already suing the employers of the pilot. 

This is hard, because I loathe Jake Paul but also can’t read that “like a respectful king” bit without cracking up.  Wtf does that even mean?  He treats his subjects well, I guess?

I always wonder what would an actual solution to cases that warrant a restraining order, where a person’s safety is at risk. Clearly a restraining order is mostly bullshit. An obsessive asshole who wants to kill you isn’t going to stop because a restraining order is in place. Private security is unaffordable to 99% of…

Is getting a nonsense Chinese tattoo offensive anymore since the Chinese are happily using nonsense English phrases on all kinds of products? Actually, do the Chinese find nonsense tats as amusing as we find nonsense English catchphrases?

Poor girl does not have the luxury of figuring out her awkward tween/teen years in privacy. The problem is, even the positive attention is bound to bring unbearable scrutiny to her young life. The well wishers and detractors will battle each other in a co-dependent feeding frenzy. A tween shouldn’t have to bear the…

I know I will catch heat for this, but here I go.... it seemed to me as if he was referring to being interviewed by her and that she took it that way, as well.  Especially since he added that he had accomplished it (“I’m done”).  Granted, everything Jim Carrey says tends to come out a little creepy, but I think this…