On the earlier post about the firing of Jay Asher, I commented about how I’d been harassed for years by someone in publishing who has since been promoted. In the hours since, someone sent me a list of predators in media, and his name is on it. All afternoon I’ve been pretending I made that happen by commenting here.…

“Where you only see one mocking comment, it was then that I carried you” —moopidoo

I’ll do it for you. Can’t wait to see how Bristol Palin’s third try at abstinence works out!

There is a LOT of Fireball in that house.

And so many fucking candles, I think you’d get a headache from all that lowkey smoke too

“by this time next year the White House is going to be staffed by Arabella Kushner and a pile of Tic Tacs.”

The peanut butter thing has now piqued my interest. That’s a good “two truths and a lie” kind of personal fact.

Sorry! I’m just realizing now that the phrase is  more “normal” because of academia and grad school and being surrounded by lit and language people and going to conferences etc. constitutes most of my chit chat. Almost no one is from the location you’re speaking to one another in and you’re desperate to make small…

Bari made the whole thing about how it was hurting her without acknowledging how her assumptions were harmful to an entire group of people. That’s pretty childish. If Chrissy’s tweet has a school marm tone, it’s because she’s trying to teach Bari what she refuses to learn as a grown ass woman in a publicly…

 It’s a fair question to ask, especially in a getting-to-know-you small talk kind of a situation, but to avoid the mistaken perception that you are “othering” someone I’d suggest framing the question just slightly differently. What I say to people is “So, are you from Minneapolis (or whatever your current location is)…

Living in NYC, and particularly working in the professional services sector, a lot of people are from elsewhere. So a pretty standard “getting to know you” question is “Did you grow up around NYC, or somewhere else?” and can usually be asked without making people feel marginalized. In other places, especially places…

Seriously. And to her point, I wish people would just straight up ask me what my ethnicity was instead of this little roundabout game of “So, where are you from?” “No, I mean where are your PARENTS from” “No, I mean what is your BACKGROUND?”

If you want people to assume you were born in the United States, be white. Seems pretty simple to me.

It’s a comment section. Literally anyone can post. One person posting doesn’t drown out anyone else posting.

I don’t know if it’s his relatively advanced age (Olympic rookie at 28) or just his personality, but his DGAF-ness is off the charts and I love it.

“He doesn’t have 80 accusers! Therefore, he’s innocent!”

EVERYONE fell in Sochi. Such a disappointing men’s final. Here’s hoping we get a better event this time!

Yeah, but what about the figure skating classic The Cutting Edge?

If you can’t see how Moses Farrow’s voice matters less than Dylan’s on this issue, we can’t help you.