"Is that like if a woman seeks an abortion, then a doctor can step in and make them stay pregnant?"

GodDAMN. That was fucking harsh. HARSH.

"One can't read everything...but one can school you, Interview Dude." I <3 her.

Or it matters because your underlying neural architecture is that of one sex, while your actual body is the other, and thus all your senses having to do with proprioception, which is what allows you to perceive your body in space, will be all fucked up because you have things that your brain tells you shouldn't be…

Um, 15+6 = 21 , not 23.

Hank maybe but not Wonder Mike...

The misogyny in rap music actually has more of a real life effect than the violence. The violence in rap inspires real life violence as much as the spy movies with the shootings and stuff do.

gender inequality aside, I have to say, I wish our economy was operating like 1955 in most other aspects. If that were the case, we'd have robust unions, smaller overall income inequality, a strong manufacturing sector, well maintained pensions funded by the companies... Well, you get the idea.

i feel like anna wintour is the moirai of fashion's existence

That's the thing — men are asked who they're wearing. And then they're often asked about things that aren't about their clothes (sometimes they're even asked about their clothes last, almost as an afterthought as the interviewer is about to lose them). Not a lot of questions about what shape-wear is holding it all…

Just here to say that I love Wide Sargasso Sea so so much.

I think it's more like : a rigidly dogmatic religious mindset is likely only comfortable with or accustomed to getting their "truth" from an authority who discourages or even disallows examination or questioning of that "truth." A scientific mindset insists on examining and questioning pretty much everything.

Here's a personal favorite, Virginia Woolf calling James Joyce's Ulysses "the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples."

I feel like spiking the football in the face of everyone that watched that goddamned poverty porn TV show. Guess what, dickholes- turns out abuse is endemic at that level, and apparent if you dig even a little bit