I am shocked. This is my shocked face.

Going to create a better standard:

I wish I were surprised that it’s women and POC who get the worst of this idiotic “perform happiness for us every second that you’re on camera” BS.

Sheesh. People are way too critical of trivial things. I could not possibly care less about her hand placement during the national anthem, and while I thought it didn’t look great for her when they showed Laurie and Madison cheering for Aly and Simone in the all-around and Gabby just kinda looked like she was…

Yeah, I always get a little weirded out by intense criticisms of other people’s proposals (unless they’re objectively obnoxious, like that dude who shut down a highway with an elaborate proposal a while back - we can totally criticize him), because different people are different, and I’m more inclined to think…

So, you know that whole stupid thing the NBC executive said about how women don’t care if results are spoiled for them because we just want to see the “journey,” and how people here rightly mocked that as sexist bullshit?

Amen to all of this!

So, obviously this has been updated, but...I’m pretty sure NBC has done this basically every night of every Olympics broadcast for years and years? It seems like they always show only a very few medal ceremonies live, and then pick a particularly significant medal ceremony to be the last thing they air in primetime.

Civility is indeed good!

Yep. And you can extend this to any health issue that is some combination of (a) more likely to affect women and (b) lacking in obvious visible symptoms. You have celiac? You just want to lose weight! Fibromyalgia? Pfft, that’s not even a real thing! CFS? You’re obviously just lazy! Depression? Just stop being so…

For what it’s worth, a lot of women have had variants on this conversation WAY too many times, whether it’s about sexual assault at conventions, rape on college campuses, or harassment at work, and by the thousandth time you’ve had to answer the “but how can someone be fired/expelled/suspended/removed from duty/kicked…

I once literally had someone bitch at me about not standing up for the national anthem when I was in a freaking wheelchair. (And in case that wasn’t stupid enough in and of itself, I clearly had my hand over my heart and was singing along, so it’s not even as if the crazy person who yelled at me could possibly…

The violist figured everyone was already suffering enough.

Uh...no? They’re rather obviously not meaningless, and I never suggested they were. Civil suits can be profoundly meaningful both on an individual level (e.g. Kesha would clearly find it meaningful if her suit caused her to be released from her contract with Sony) and on a societal level (say, when a guy sues the…

Seconded! For totally unselfish reasons, obviously!

While I think judging other people for their choice to have an abortion is a shitty thing to do, it’s very possible to be pro-choice without believing that abortion is “just the removal of cells.” All you have to do is believe that the right to bodily autonomy is important enough to take precedence over other…

She and Aly both KILLED it on the floor routine. (And in general!)

That article was doing okay up until it the point where it declared that “the wife liked reading thrillers” was a thing we “need to know,” as if that somehow points to her being the murderer. No matter which parent did this horrific thing, it didn’t happen because they liked reading crime novels. (If one’s taste in…

It makes me happy every time I see it (and makes me get “JAP Rap” stuck in my head again). Crazy Ex-Girlfriend FTW.

Yeah, seriously. There are things that he generally seems to do pretty well (fabric, for example - some of his sculpted fabric looks quite nice), but the man clearly cannot do realistic faces. He really needs to stop sculpting people, team up with another sculptor when sculpting people and let them handle the faces…