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.

...can I come live in your house?

I’ve made a hobby out of coining Trump insults. Here are today’s:

Thank you!

Hi Jezzies! My publisher just launched my first novel — a feminist retelling of The Phantom of the Opera! Here’s the trailer!

Until very recently, I practiced no face-magic at all. Now I owe one tube of color pop black lipstick and one tube matte blue.

Fantastic. I grew up in a children’s home in the South and this hit me viscerally. What’s that you’re feeling? Oh, nothing much. Just the eternal reverberations of a life without justice.

I’ve survived several knife fights - just one of the added benefits of growing up in an orphanage - and you really do have to accept that your arms are going to get cut up pretty badly but that’s infinitely better than getting hit in the face or the throat. In a knife fight, reach is your friend, and so is distance.…

Well, I taught at a Texas university over five years ago and even then I was threatened by a gun-toting parent who was angry that I was teaching his daughter about ‘abortion’. I didn’t bother explaining that Swift was writing, in a very tounge-in-cheek way, about eating babies which had already been born and so, at…

I love those babies. I worked at a zoo for a while and while they can, indeed, ruin your day they generally like the people who bring the buckets of frozen rats.

Not really. Her hygiene probably wasn’t the best, but if the hair tie had one of those little metal clamps on it holding it together then this is actually pretty likely. Loads of very virulent bacteria are attracted to aluminum, copper and tin. If you live in a humid environment, and the metal scratches your skin,…

Thank you for your internet hugs. I needed that!

Thank you. I’m hoping some good can come from it.

I’m in the UK. It’s half-one in the morning and this is the third night in a row that I have had no sleep. I’m from America and my parents ‘surprised’ spouse-person and I with a flight ‘home’ for Christmas. I am dreading, just absolutely dreading, taking this trip because my childhood was not the best (my parents sent…