Well, if you put a book out there, y’know, with an attractive dust jacket and eye-catching cover, just screaming “Read me!”, y’know, you shouldn’t be surprised if some people end up opening that book.

I love everything you said here. I’m from an ancestral shoes-off culture, or two, actually, but my parents are Americanized and we tended to keep our shoes on in the house when I was growing up, which I always thought was gross. Once I spent some time abroad in one of those cultures in college, I adopted the shoes-off…

Yeah, that’s rape.

And then there is this from my friend.

Gwyneth: it’s called a halo. You have one, right? Didn’t you curate a collection of platinum and jewel encrusted haloes to match the ibis feather wings and the uranium harp in your “I’m No Angel, I’m What Angels Admire” sales campaign?

WERK IT MAMA!

From a design standpoint, yeah, the stripes aren’t good-looking at all. That said, from a practical standpoint, they make perfect sense. Ghost busting is not always going to occur in optimal viewing conditions. You will want something that clearly marks that you are a human being in situations of poor visibility. And…

I’m going to give him a pass, because you just can’t hate on a 20+ year crush, but is the Downey tweet a little uncharacteristically douche-y? Intentional?

See, though the way he’s phrasing it suggests any power she has in the relationship she has because it was granted to her by him which is in itself problematic.

And that deference had NO connection to that fact that you were her mother’s man and the father of her siblings for 10 years prior, right?

I met my husband when both of our daughters were nine years old. We dated for several years before we got married. If he had started sleeping with my daughter 10 years later after me giving birth to his child....y’all....Y’ALL....just put some money on my books at the commissary. I’d have been in jail.

Like, whatever I guess, they’ve been married for 20 years and obviously this dynamic works for them. It makes me knee-jerk grossed out to read these comments now, but there are a million kinks and relationship types and preferences I will never understand, nor do I need to.

I don’t know. I’m sort of partial to Boudica.

Medical debt gets a pass completely. I think the reason why I’m more forgiving of student debt is that most of the people I deal with irl have been to college and HAD to take on loans to do so. Whereas credit card debt (to me personally) might indicate crazy shopping habits which I’m wary of.

There's a middle way. The current version of capitalism is what's truly nightmarish.

Cat on the left looks lika Laura Prepon.

Damned good apology. None of that "so sorry you're mad" bullshit.

*Must not body shame sexist idiot* *Must not body shame sexist idiot*

The craziest thing to me in the aftermath of these killings is how accepting most people are of the militarization of the police. I fully expect that when video footage is found (dashcam or otherwise), Mike Brown will have done nothing that could warrant a reaction with fatal force, but people will still look and…

Everyone is blowing this is off as some weird fetish-y thing and missing Mark's larger point: this is becoming normal. Let me repeat that again: hardcore, extreme and often dangerous sexual acts, overwhelmingly involving women, are becoming more and more normalized. Things that should be seasoned fetishes and…