I despise the whole roommate system in general, and think it is a significant source of stress for many college students. A nearly absolute lack of privacy wares on most people. You’d think that universities would start changing their student housing just based on the fact that closet sized singles are frequently more…

They should reenact a few scenes from Rome by the only (fake) centurions worth remembering.

The only people I know who think it is unrealistic are men.

I watched with my husband, and at the end, I asked him what he thought and it did not go well. I can’t remember the exact words—all I remember is static?—but at one point he accused me of trying to “educate him” and said it felt “unrealistic.”

“The “is he was he I knew it”” took me way too long to understand what the fuck you meant by that.

You just reminded me of another peeve of mine. The “ethnic” section. I hate that phrase. Just this weekend I was hopping around looking for a Sally’s that carried TGIN products because they had a buy two get one free sale going on and I wanted to stock up on my DC. The one closest to me didn’t have any so they sent me…

Their team mascot is a dinosaur, and this is what they came up with?

It’s possible to know male privilege and be trans, because privilege is not something entirely internal. It depends partially on how someone perceived (because they’ll be punished by society for presenting as “femme”) and how they’re treated/the opportunities they’re given due to that perception. Privilege exists…

Now just wait a damn minute. Andy is telling us about conspiracy theory? It’s in the editorial page clear as day.

Hey, I don’t think I need to mention EVERY SINGLE REASON Caitlyn Jenner clearly has a very flawed world view. I think being extremely wealthy, white, famous, all contributed to her behavior and world view. But she spent half a century being treated as a male by society. You think that really had no effect on her?…

Lots of white cismen have plenty of struggles. It’s often difficult to explain to a white straight guy who grew up in poverty, maybe was abused, maybe came from a food unstable home, that they in fact benefited from white privilege because they did. Our struggles absolutely have an effect on who we are and how we see…

That was an interesting part of Transparent when Maura was talking with someone (I think her daughter’s older girlfriend from university?) during the festival they attended about their respective experiences of academia in the 70s. Maura was kind of blind to the male privilege she benefited from as a male presenting…

Yeah, I certainly was thinking about something like that. Like, how is the experience, the perception of their own voice and role, going to vary for someone who has been living as their authentic gender from early childhood vs someone like Caitlyn Jenner who spent the majority of her life living as a man. Yes, I know,…

I don’t think I’m talking about this as an application to everyone in a blanket statement. More point that that word exists in a way and it does effect people. I think it would be a little naive to think that 60+ years of being treated as a white male had no effect on Caitlyn Jenner’s views and opinions. The way the…

Just like this is not a given with free services, you also can’t rule it out with paid services. Many paid services happily sell everything about you.

but it is in line with what chimamanda ngoche adizie got flack for: they can’t really know male privilege having lived such a tormented early existence

If you spend your formative years being given privileges, you don’t suddenly lose your taste for them later.

Its a common problem that’s been discussed in many, many behavioral economics papers. Uber’s hardly the biggest example - many other companies (eg Tesla, Snapchat) enjoy insane valuations purely on account of narrative driven investment theses that are completely disconnected from the financial fundamentals…

Maybe Kinder should do a tie-in cross promotion with the Darwin Awards

If we had to make everything illegal that could kill kids, we’d have nothing. When my kids were young enough and dumb enough to put and entire yellow thing or the toy inside it... I did a little thing called parenting and watched them. Now that they’re older I watch them. Some US states banned those little powerful…