I had to explain to my boss recently what a modern “crystal hippie” is... they’re objectively the worst; all the fashion without any of the spiritual introspection, the love-based ideology or support for women and minorities. The one he’d come across (in Northern VA for godsakes) was the ultra-common anti-choice…

The illustration in the middle of the article is the PERFECT image for this phenomena. It summarizes the situation breathtakingly.

I am starting to get annoyed by the “Who, me?” facade that plenty of gentifiers are holding up, when their behavior is called out. The White Walkers like to pretend that their settling doesn’t cause a rippling effect. And they never move into the communities, where there are poor, white people.

My understanding of it has been if someone steps into a place or culture of a group they are not a part of and then claims ownership or a part of something that they have no right to they are a colonizer.

It wasn’t unusual to see one of the movie stars stalking around Santa Fe wearing what he probably imagined was local garb: an absurdly fringed leather jacket, a precarious 10-gallon hat, gleaming boots looking like six months of someone’s salary.

I’m from Albuquerque, and I used to joke that you could always tell the transplants because they were old, white, short hair, and decked out head to toe in turquoise shit. Santa Fe was always the worst: people think it’s this portal to another dimension and rarely venture beyond the Plaza. Which is too bad, because…

I would say that America is spiritually bankrupt and this sort of thing is what passes for spirituality now. People paying lip service to a thing for a couple of days for a laugh and a feeling of self satisfaction. It’s been reduced to a consumer activity like everything else in this country.

Shrek!

If the show gets anywhere close to the comic that Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa also wrote (which is great and you ought to read it) there will be plenty of “chilling” to go around. Consider this photo a nice bit of misdirection.

Yes exactly - women who have been repeatedly, loudly, threateningly questioned about WHY or what a BITCH they’re being etc etc need tactics like these sometimes. Do not think that being in public is a deterrent to major assholes. It’s Shroedinger’s Rapist - unfortunately, enough guys ARE potential threats that…

So great to see Kiernan Shipka getting some high profile work. She was so fantastic in Mad Men.

This would be my normal course of action, but then I have to remind myself that I’m a 6'1", 190 lb. man who doesn’t have to worry about being assaulted if I don’t want to spend time with someone.

Re: Trump Jr.

Wait, so my last date who spilled wine on herself AND her dog was throwing up was just ghosting me?  I probably should not have married her.

While I agree that just acting like an adult and framing it as “we can both see this isn’t going to go further” is a good course of action (and the one I would rather use), womenfolk sometimes have to go the self-protection route and leave through the back door. I’d rather not get into another heated discussion in…

He’s the “host” of some game show where he’s in character as somebody else, and it was supposed to be some big “reveal” even though it was blindingly obvious.

I paid U.S. dollars to go see that, and I’m convinced that’s why the woman I was dating at the time broke it off, even though it was her idea.

+1 cut off dummy face

I assume she used towels to avoid the spread of rabies. All thanks to the awareness raised by the Michael Scott’s Dunder Mifflin Scranton Meredith Palmer Memorial Celebrity Rabies Awareness Pro-Am Fun Run Race for the Cure. For the cure.