I’ve never heard the phrase “count on a butcher’s hand” before but that’s hilarious.

Yep, you found the answer in your edit. Nicotine is basically just a stimulant not terribly much worse than caffeine, except that it’s highly addictive and bad for unborn babies. So pregnant women should not vape, either, unless they use the no-nicotine juices which simulate the smoking action and feel (which helps…

Ew. The few vapers I know are considerate and they usually have flavors that smell really nice. During the summer though I was at the beach on a super hot day, waiting in a long line to use a hot, smelly, dirty, garbage excuse for a bathroom, and there was this teen behind me in line whose boyfriend was waiting with…

No - this is where choice of words are important. She did not say “women are weak”, she said it’s a “weakness”. Strong people can have weaknesses, a weakness in a particular area is not an indictment on overall strength of character.

Let....ter? Pa....per?

I think it’s condescending because the interviewer didn’t think Nicki would realize that it was a trick question and there was no right way to answer it. She thought she was gonna catch her up and the only way that works is if she thinks Nicki isn’t smart enough to figure it out.

To put down a woman for something that men do, as if they’re children and I’m responsible

Does seem very cheap soft-porn romantic novel. “As he ripped her bodice away from her heaving bosom, she felt his throbbing member searching for her most private spot.”

They will probably do just fine.

I haven’t been able to eat a cucumber since a patient of mine got one stuck up his ass.

Hotels could have bracelets, like this:

Late night, Aaron Sorkin likes to get into his silk pyjamas, light a couple of scented candles, open a bottle of wine and read the Times University Rankings.

They’re gonna talk the same way, CJ and Josh and Scully ’cause I’m one writer.

I certainly get why he has criticism leveled at him for the way he presents women, but I don’t really see that this particular incident is particularly telling or damning, to be honest. The section you’ve bolded is especially not problematic to me. Writing female characters like they’re real, fully formed PEOPLE is…

I am the last person to defend KK ... but I agree with you 100%. I remember one day when I was growing up ... I don’t know fourth or fifth grade ... and my aunt was visiting. She was gushing on and on about how pregnancy was so beautiful and she’d love to be pregnant all the time. She went on and on about how her body…

If there’s one group of people I’m always trying to please with my looks, it’s dudes who troll women’s beauty blogs to talk about their dick-feelings about different women’s hairstyles. I don’t know what it is about those guys, but they just do it for me.

The study does not say we have the same “diet” as three decades ago. It says we have the same caloric intake and percent macronutrient intake. Big difference.

I get SO tired of hearing parents say "Ain't no one got time for that!" You know what? If you don't have time for your children, don't have them! If you choose to be a parent, then make time for it. And DON"T expect preschool to be able to undo all the negative example setting you do at home. (Full disclosure: I ran…