*jerking-off motion*

I don’t disagree that he’s being tokenized and upheld because publishers are too lazy to try to find other Latinx authors they know they can sell, but I’m also going to say that its not the only reason.

I majored in English in college and in one of my smaller, seminar-style classes we read Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. I did not like the book, and during discussion I talked about how hard it was to read the male characters in the book constantly objectifying the female characters. One of the guys in…

That’s what frustrates me about these “well he never did anything bad to me” letters. Because obviously people are not either all bad or all good. Every single one of us as a person has been undeservedly shitty to at least one other person in our lives. Even if we’re saints 99% of the time, I guarantee each one of has…

“a man of tremendous decency and integrity.”

Because many Catholics (especially in the Northeast) are die-hard liberals.

Wait, so we’re going back to anti-Catholicism, again? Makes sense given how much we’ve regressed on so many other fronts.

Yes, I am incredibly wealthy and powerful. I know how to throw a party. Please enjoy the musical stylings of my large adult sons and the company of the most perpetually wrong people on earth. Rock on, my dudes.

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It’s revealing that such self-reflection never results in the conclusion that men who have spent careers harassing and bullying should not return to those careers.

Someone tell this woman that nobody in my social circles knows who she is married to because:

This shit again.

When our first child was born, the first-time-dad thing was overwhelming, so we didn’t pay much attention to the itemized bills that follows. Then again, the first hospital was a teaching hospital and I don’t think there was as much “nickle and dime” ing.

People don’t really realize how expensive having a kid is until they have one. I’m not talking about raising a kid, which is an entirely other deal. I’m talking about the actual process of going through pregnancy. Even with insurance.

So....can we just declare the Prince/Devos family enemies of the state- they’re literally pouring billions into tearing down all that makes America good or great from running private mercenary armies in non-extradition treaty countries (her brother Erik shifted his HQ to the Middle East after a North Carolina jury…

this story is insane to me. i don’t work in publishing and have never even come close to writing a book, but not verifying or fact-checking seems absolute fucking backwards.

I for one can’t wait for something, ANYTHING, to happen. my liver and kidneys can’t take any more abuse.

I pointed that out in a discussion earlier today, and the person defending Ryan dismissed it as a “laughable” criticism. He maintained that Ryan was one of the few honorable, honest people in Washington.

Trump’s packing of the courts with imbecilic ultra-conservatives like this is going to be his lasting legacy. They get lifetime appointments. It will take decades to reverse the effects of this.

Stuff like this is a stark reminder that abortion rights are the top of a very slippery slope. These people don’t oppose abortion, they oppose bodily autonomy for women. If they manage to get abortion outlawed, they’re going to go after birth control. If they managed to get birth control outlawed, they’d start…