I didn’t come up with this theory, but I read somewhere that the Sorting Hat appears to sometimes take into account not only the qualities the student already has, but also the areas where they could use encouragement and places them accordingly. This would explain why say, Hermione is in Gryffindor instead of…

I’m lactose intolerant and I just want to enjoy lattes, so bring me all the weird plant milks you have! I’m thankful to be living in an era of such plentiful weird milk varieties. Macadamia? Oat? Hemp? HERE. FOR. IT.

Yeah I was definitely allowed to be home alone at 10, at least during the day. Definitely by middle school I was allowed to supervise my younger sister at home, even at night and was allowed to be at the mall or hte movies with my friends without adults. My boss did tell me his son babysits sometimes but he’s like a…

DANG! Even adjusting for inflation that seems like a pretty good racket.

I love this but I have a legit question: Do 13-year-olds babysit anymore (like, for money, not just for their own siblings)? Do parents really hire them? I’m an old-ass xennial and I babysat but now that my friends are having kids, I feel like they won’t hire anyone without a master’s in education and an EMT…

Right, and I think it will depend on the person and what they did. I’d like to see these guys back out of the spotlight for awhile and do something to demonstrate they’re working on their issues, at the very least.

Exactly. I mean, no one is suggesting they can’t continue to MAKE whatever art they want, but whether that art gets any financing is another story and frankly, I’d just rather media outlets move on and devote their resources to voices out there we haven’t heard. I don’t think that C.K. or others necessarily merit a…

No, because clearly the answer is for women who become pregnant accidentally is to have the baby and marry the father and then everything will be ok? This really does get at how control of women is a fundamental principle of the right.

I think this is the right strategy, we just need to figure out HOW to get people who didn’t vote to start showing up. I think so many of the national “liberal” media outlets focus an inordinate amount of thinkpieces on how to get back the white people who voted for Obama and then Trump, and tbh I don’t know how many…

Not remotely surprising, unfortunately.

Exactly. This just shows how much this is not about sex and how much it is about their deep-seated insecurity. Having a woman who meets their hotness criteria voluntarily have sex with them is a trophy, a badge, a measure of validation of their worth, that’s it. Get these assholes some therapy and if that doesn’t work…

This whole thing is so sickening. I was at USC and I went to the student health center for everything EXCEPT gyno stuff, preferring to go to my hometown (female) doc who I loved instead and all I can think now is that I dodged a bullet with that. What a nightmare and WTF was USC doing if anyone knew about this? How…

Right, except that 20% of a house (or even 10%) in one of those coastal areas is a shitload. I’m at the point where mr. perdue and I could afford a mortgage, but we don’t have the 15-20% to put down that would result in an affodable monthly mortgage payment and it’s such an astronomical amount of money that we can’t…

Right, except that it’s to the employer’s benefit that there is a generation of healthy, well-cared for children out there to...someday buy the shit they’re selling and/or staff their companies. I get that in the immedaite short-term, having a mom on staff who may take more time off can sting (in a small company…

Well put. I guess the only thing approximating sympathy I have for Melania and her ilk is that I’m geniuinely sorry that any woman goes through life believing that being treated poorly by a gross old rich man in exchange for room and board (and ok, diamonds) is the best deal she can hope to strike in life. I undestand…

Totally read that statement in a different context.

True, but parents sometimes instigate custody disputes purely out of a desire to make life a living hell for their ex and I can 100% believe Trump could be one of those people.

But it’s ok because everyone who lives there has a huge pool and an army of servants to follow them around with misters, I guess. Slight exaggeration. I work out here and I was just trying to figure out if Sofia Richie was shopping at Erewhon or Gelson’s or at the new Bristol Farms.

I’m certainly no expert, but I think a lot of the ideas these boys have about life/status/women come from the vast amount of culture we have that consists of stories of awkward/dorky/loser guys who overcome obstacles to succeed in life and a big part of that is “getting” a certain type of girl. Maybe exposure to as…

This is the root of it, the view that women aren’t people with their own thoughts and feelings and personalities at all, but simply trophies to be won and prominently displayed like in a video game.