You know, I really, deeply hate the whole sheer/nude illusion trend, but damn if Elie Saab doesn’t almost make me like it. Those dresses are freaking gorgeous, even if I still think I’d like most of them better with some sort of lining so the wearers don’t look like they’re wandering around in their (exceedingly…

I am fortunate enough to still lack noticeable grey hairs even though I’m rapidly approaching 40, but I’ve been thinking for a while that once I start seriously going grey, that’s going to be my excuse to find out what having crazy rainbow-colored hair is like. I have long, fairly dark hair so I’ve never wanted to…

Yup.

Nine months? Ugh. I wish it were years. What he did is utterly vile and was unquestionably traumatic to many of his victims.

In (very slight) fairness to Bonnie Parker, I believe the current historical semi-consensus is that she probably didn’t ever actually kill anyone.

I think the essential point here is good, but I’m really uncomfortable with the declaration that the specific women behind her in the photo are “wanting to just show up in a very superficial way and not wanting to do the hard work of making change, of challenging their own privilege” based on nothing other than (a)…

It’s an “awful” thing because you’ve just declared that men are actual human beings with varied personalities and interests, whereas women are stereotypes who only talk about shopping, cruises, shoes, and romance-themed media. Which is some sexist garbage.

The answer is that is doesn’t actually matter when they have rights.

Completely off-topic (because the actual topic is depressing and I don’t want to think any more about Trump today) - as a disabled person, I actually love that that scooter exists. Yes, it is ridiculous, but most mobility aids (canes, wheelchairs, walkers, scooters) are designed to be as utilitarian and unobtrusive as…

I feel like they should just bring Left Shark back for every Super Bowl halftime show in perpetuity. Just, like, fifteen minutes or whatever of concert, and then some dramatic fireworks and fog, out of which rises an awkwardly flailing shark, the end.

I think the truth is probably somewhere in between - a sociopath who knew the right butons to push could almost certainly get most people to do things they are not comfortable with and would not otherwise be willing to do, and it is very probable that in many cases where two people commit horrible crimes together, one…

Unimportant nitpick, but Rue McClanahan was actually the youngest of the four by about a decade. Estelle Getty was a year younger than her “daughter,” though!

It seems to vary a lot by branch - I’m not a member, but I have a few SCA friends who’ve lived in multiple cities, and it’s pretty clear that the groups they’ve been in run the gamut from “we like hanging out with fellow history nerds, learning how to do cool crafty things, drinking a lot of mead, and having silly…

I love her and her recaps are the best things ever.

I don’t think anyone’s defending her - they’re saying, correctly, that Megyn Kelly is a shitty journalist and a shitty person, but it’s very definitely not because she has posed for pictures wearing tight dresses and stilettos. I’d be equally critical of a comment implying that the reason we shouldn’t take Don Lemon…

While another commenter accurately pointed out to you that the animal kingdom is a hell of a lot more complicated and varied than you seem to think, I just want to focus on the fact that your actual argument appears to be that one can determine how well something reflects human nature by looking at lions. Which is…

You know, the obvious, striking difference between those two pictures is that Hubbard actually looks like he’s thinking about something. There’s a good chance it’s something along the lines of “ha ha, I’m scamming so many suckers out of their money with my stupid made-up religion,” because Hubbard was a crazy asshole,…

I think you did a pretty excellent job of being articulate, actually. Amen to all of that.

As a long-haired woman, thank you for adding this response to my life. I find few things more irritating than random strangers telling me I need to go chop my hair off. I’m totally telling them to donate kidneys from now on.

Yes, I obviously prefer the beatings and rapes I’ve endured at the hands of men to the ultimate horror of women sometimes being kinda nasty to me.