I am so tired of this parsing.

this reminds me of Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a woman?” speech.

What does that even mean in the modern era?  Ignore gender equality in favor of economic equality?  Ignore social justice in favor of economic justice?  We can’t chew gum and walk at the same time?

The Equal Rights Amendment.

Why not, Mr. Horseman? What is in my pants isn’t anyone’s concern but mine and my girlfriend’s. When you see me walking down the street you see a woman. In every way that actually matters to you and everyone else, I’m a woman.

“The word ‘women’ never appears in the ERA. Instead, the amendment focuses on ‘sex’ — a word increasingly in danger of becoming meaningless as ideologues push to disassociate the term from biology and replace it with ‘gender identity.’”

Yes, young children do think in binaries. So what? They also think peas and carrots can’t touch and it’s totally NBD to eat a roach off the floor. You’re going to get better results if you teach them otherwise starting early! And I promise they care more about the roach than about some hypothetical LGBT adults. It’s…

I feel like a lot of it has to do with just how convoluted and messy the whole thing was. It was the first big celebrity rape incident that I paid close attention to and it was a fucking madhouse. And yesterday I saw so many people running their mouth about it who clearly had no actual idea what really happened…

Just as Tom Brady’s obituary will mention Deflategate and Darryl Strawberry’s will cover his struggles with substance abuse, it is journalistic malpractice to sum up Bryant’s life and career without mentioning the credible rape allegations.

Sounded like a “g” to me, but at best it’s up to interpretation. Not a comfortable place to be, one way or the other.

Thank you for this. The Root, which usually has excellent, insightful coverage, had an article listing Sonmez’s tweet as a “mistake”, alongside things like the BBC’s ‘In Memoriam’ montage featuring LeBron James, or an MSNBC reporter calling his team the Los Angeles [N-word]s. This post is much more nuanced and…

Washington post fucked up and I hope they’re smart enough to drop the suspension fast.  I hope her fellow journalists rally around her. 

Thank you. For a reporter to be punished by a purported news organization for accurately pointing out that he was very credibly accused of rape, is fucking insane.

Why bother having her in the tribute if she wasn’t going to sing? What was even the point? If it was to have another ‘name’ in the set, just get a well-known dancer and call it a day.

To confirm what I suggested above: Right now (1 pm Sunday) every broadcast channel in LA and all three national cable news channels and BBC World News are on wall-to-wall Kobe.

And TMZ is now reporting that one of his daughters was on board the helicopter - and of course because this is TMZ and they have no shame, they’ve already named which daughter it is (I’m not going to do that here, at least). A minor, getting named in the news like that. Jesus Christ.

This little bottle of champagne was over $40! And I don’t even like it! But it was necessary.

I paid off my mortgage yesterday! It took me 18 years, but it was 7 years early on a 25 year mortgage.

Anybody want to start doing a fashion thread? I know that there’s a usual cooking thread as well as shelter cat thread but I don’t really see much about fashion. And I’m a junkie. Can’t afford what I’d really love but I make do with lots of secondhand clothing stores and occasionally buy an actual new piece. SO.

Hi everyone! I’ve been away for a while. There’s been a lot.