Methinks he missed the point of Fight Club. The novel was all about the perils of toxic masculinity...

While I absolutely agree that Wilson was being insufferably rude and self-centred by disrupting everyone else’s life for no reason, part of me also thinks that this story is hilarious because I’m currently teaching in a university in China and not only is there no minimum age for buying cigarettes, you can smoke them…

I think that some parents are more open with their children than others. For better or for worse.
For example, I know that after my mother dumped my father (but before they got back together and hoisted me onto an unsuspecting world) my mother briefly dated Andre the Giant. She was working as a model at the time and…

Longhorn cattle were always the worst, for me. They were so freaking aggressive. When my parents lived in Texas their neighbours had a longhorn cow in their yard. They had a ranch, but they didn’t live on it. She was their pet. She broke the fence trying to get at me, multiple times, when I was mowing the yard. We had…

Right? If it were a Jersey, I’d be worried. This girl will be the boss before she’s done.

I bought my husband a mangagement ring. It’s silver, with ‘I am my beloved’s and she is mine’ written on it in Hebrew. I did not want an engagement ring. I have a lot of pretty rings already (some of them have wolves on them!) and I didn’t like the patriarchal connotations - though I was happy to reverse them and…

Do not act out of desire for heaven, or fear of hell. Act because the action is right and will neither reduce your idea of yourself or impede you from becoming the person that you would like to become. I do know that when I am tempted to do something which is wrong (usually cruel. I am tempted by cruelty) I frame it…

I’ve been fencing competitively for years, and participating in HEMA fencing for over a year. It’s absolutely amazing. I’ve been studying the smallsword (which is like a rapier but, well, small: Arya’s Needle is based on this weapon) and the backsword (think cutlass) and while I love them both, the smallsword is my…

I was so excited when I read this that I made a very odd sound and my husband came into the room in a panic to check that I hadn’t died or anything unpleasant like that.

Bring the kid. It’s a wonderful film, but it’s absolutely not age-inappropriate. He will probably spend the next few weeks literally climbing the walls, but that’s just to be expected. I did the same thing and I’m nominally an adult. Skip the previews, though.
And great call on Ultimate Spider-Man. You got that…

My latest book was picked as The Guardian’s Book of the Week and I’m kind of freaking out about it — in the same way that a dog will go Gonzo for his favorite frisbee. It was announced online on Tuesday, and in print today! https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/16/silage-bethany-w-pope-review-poetry-as-salvation

England is a deeply weird place (and I love it). The minute you leave a city you are in Pagan country. The blessing of the crops and the blessing of the animals are my favorites. Picture a 1000-year-old church filled with donkeys, dogs, and people’s pet budgies and you have some idea of the wonderful madness. Also,…

When I was eight and I realized that most families didn’t have to fish every day for their food, and most American parents didn’t run out and buy three twenty-five pound bags of dry rice on the first of the month, or eat half-servings of everything for the last five days before payday.

Excellent interview. I know that this question is going to sound facietious, but I mean it sincerely: what can we do about other white women? I was the only one in my family who voted for Hillary. I had no hope at all if convincing the men, but I tried. I also tried with my mother, sister and cousins. I don’t think…

‘Are you up for monkeyshines, my deer?’

It absolutely was not necessary.

Why am I totally unsurprised at the fact that there are a lot of us MBC/MBU alumni on Jezebel?

MBU Alum here. When I attended it was as an early-admittance student (I enrolled at 16 - on a scholarship- to escape a frankly torturous home life) who didn’t have a high school degree. My test scores were very high, so I got in. I came from an excruciatingly conservative family. One of the only reasons that I was…

They took her to the poshest grocery store in the country. Seriously. This place sells ‘Essential Ostrich Eggs’. You know. For omelettes. They should have taken her to Tesco and had her try a can of 20p ‘extra value’ peas (with stones in, for extra stony goodness!) if they wanted her to experience every-day…

Needs more Nightcrawler.