Academics are often really socially incapable. It’s like a badge of honor. I work in research administration and most of my professors are perfectly ok but the ones who are off...would be unemployable anywhere else. Why this shit is accepted as some kind of mark of intelligence, I don’t know.

They fkn called it “gallantry”

I always knew sexual harassment was widespread, but the sheer volume of stuff coming out lately...makes me almost think that kicking the guy in the dick and/or shooting him with a taser is like, the best recourse at this point. Geezus.

When I was a grad student, a fellow grad student (a guy who was about 25 or 30 years older than me) was first friendly, and then he got a bit stalker-y. I told him he was being inappropriate and after that, he didn’t bother me...directly. He instead talked about his fantasy life with me (just blech. he was married and…

Oh god, including Natacha V/C, who worked for this very site. Ick.

Tax money (quite a lot of it, in fact) has always been used subsidized private, employer-provided insurance, before the ACA. This is also true of many other benefits enjoyed by people who believe they are, I don’t know, hunting bears and growing corn and churning butter, when they are in fact part of an interconnected…

Stassa said it

Heck if there is a Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, then there’s got to be a Fish Nuns Ride Crystal Foxes Who Ride Fathiers thing too.

Thank you. I’m from upstate NY, a firmly Trump-voting part of it, even though a lot of things that Hillary Clinton did as senator, now forgotten, were highly, highly beneficial for the poor white people living in my hometown. Most of the people I grew up with have never met a Muslim or a Jewish person in their life,…

No joke, man. Hasn’t male anger really just fkd us all forever?

Shiiit. The patriarchy is a hell of a drug.

You’re not wrong

These same people also do not want to recognize that now that they have a trumping bag, they still have their own awful sexism, racism, etc. that they are not addressing by blaming him for everything. I mean ok the guy is shite, yeah, but you aren’t doing anything to make yourself a better person or someone who really…

that nyt article about harry reid sponsoring an agency that studies ufos for 22 million bucks was...interesting.

I have a side-gig doing non-employee contractor stuff-editing manuscripts, that sort of stuff. It’s made up a third of my income every year for the past few years and was my primary source of money for a while when I first immigrated out of the U.S. Because I cover my health care and regular taxes through my day job I…

geezis that’s a lot of money to sit around congratulating yourself. relieved to be a pleeb.

Everyone keeps saying ‘oh this is the last straw’ and it keeps not being it.

Ahh, togetherness...

oh god i know. I’m so worried about medicare/my mom’s pension from working in a public school district for 30 years/social security. My parents are screwed if that stuff evaporates. And if one or both of them needs chronic care as they get older...ugggggh. But at least my dad stopped being a republican out of disgust.…

I’m so sorry about your friend.