Mike Huckabee is the pits. If you find yourself in an argument with someone like him who is the worst, I recommend this study. Bayesian analyses are not exactly simple to understand, but the abstract makes it really clear: “we did the math, and it turns out black men are seriously way more in danger of being killed by…

Wait just a second as I think I may be hallucinating: are you telling me men are disgusted by women’s vulnerability to attack because of an immutable physical characteristic over which we have no possible control? Do you have any idea how psychotic that sounds? So instead of being disgusted that someone in a position…

As a woman who is also white, I long ago accepted that this is the case with all groups at the top of the hierarchy: white people generally will silence black/asian/hispanic people; men will silence women; straight will silence gay; cis will silence trans. It allows all of us to ignore the pain of other people, pain…

I sometimes think if men knew the actual truth, they’d die of shame from silencing women all these years. It’s why they fight us so hard when we do attempt to tell our stories: they do NOT want to know that this happened to women they cared about—their moms, grandmothers, great-grandmothers (god knows worse things…

Popcorn is fine. Popcorn covered in salt and butter, not fine.

Anyone of any gender who demands that you either get hitched or break up is not someone you want to marry, ever. Sorry, Ann.

They have a checkered relationship.

The most American thing someone can do is to leave a baseball game early.

“But if you give her your vote now, you’re never going to be able to negotiate with her neoliberal side of the party, and you won’t be able to extract concessions to move the country left. Which is why, if you let Trump win this time, the Democrats are going to woo you and concede stuff to you in order to gain your…

“Weakest move I’ve ever seen for a superstar.” What a goddamn joke.

+1 dying at “Jimmy McMouthbreather”

This is the dumbest fucking argument I’ve ever heard. So pro athletes are bad guys when they go for the biggest bucks. But they’re bad guys when they go for less bucks to go to a team that is most likely to get them a ring. I guess the only right move KD could have made would be to take less bucks to go to the Knicks.

Or realized what a fallacy that statement is in this context of a person with comprehension difficulties.

It was ALWAYS security theatre.

yes, when I see the caliber of my local TSA agents, my homeland security fears are assuaged.

They caused a head injury to a deaf, partially blind teenager with a brainstem tumor. GOOD JOB, ASSHOLES.

Until I was about 25, I would be followed around the store. One time when I was 14 (but let’s be clear, I was 4'10" and looked like I belonged in the 5th grade) I told someone that only child molesters follow kids that closely and they backed off. It was finally the day that I was detained by someone at a fred meyer I…

This is why I was so happy when online shopping really took off in the late 90's. So sick of getting followed in these department stores and having my pocketbook eyed suspiciously. I actually made a scene and went off on a woman who trailed 6 feet behind me since the second I walked into the store, checking whatever I…

A little while ago, I learned that “privilege,” literally, means “private law.”