She is at best VP not boss.

Yay I am followed by Jezebel! Not to detract from how boring this dress is because as usual Kara is right (although I would still buy this dress, if I had tons of money).

LOVE IT.

Ok, how tall actually is he? Because either you are tall or he is short or you are both moderate height.

Ken Yadiggit: ***/4

Twitter basically is just that app.

The New York Times adds that Chief Justice John Roberts isn’t a fan of all of the bitchy dissents and catty judicial swiping and hopes everybody can just get along this time.

I am actually going to see Sicario and then going on a kayak trip. THIS QUIZ IS BULLSHIT.

I’m sorry why do you cry when you do this? Because that is WINNING AT LIFE. You do you you glorious pizza lover you.

This is also very true. Rather than try to engage with their son and push them to be social and active and have friends, some of these guys were very sheltered and very unable to cope with a world outside their immediate family. The Isla Vista shooter was much the same: his family thought well of him and I bet he…

I don’t really think calling a mass murderer a weirdo is the problem.

Fine. You can stay. But you have to be mad at Bobby with me (liking The Martian is a zero sum game).

Stephen Universe is fantastic. And a great role model. But I also would point out that Stephen Universe is still about a boy super hero. And the whole super hero concept is very much a male one, even if we have female super heros.

Women can raise boys to fit patriarchal standards as well. Plus, if the boy wasn’t fitting patriarchal standards outside the home he would face greater isolation and social ostracism.

Except there is no mental diagnosis for mass shootings. No psychiatric test defines what could cause a mass shooter.

Exactly. Women who don’t fit into their traditional gender role now have a big “out” thanks to feminism (not that being a woman in business or engineering or government is easy, far from it). Boys never received that. If a boy isn’t fitting his gender role society doesn’t know what to do with him.

In this case he wasn’t a white male though. Don’t forget that just a month ago a black man shot two reporters and a city employee on live TV.

I wouldn’t say we took away care: violence like this has actually been going down for a long time. I would say that we put a lot more emphasis on girls (we always do, in a lot of different ways) than we did on boys. So now we have young women who grow up well adjusted way more often than boys, and we are kind of…

I'm not excusing his behavior. I am looking for explanations and it turns out people like this guy are not uncommon. The profile is there, the shooters always share similar characteristics. We know how this guy was built to be this way: we need to address it.

I will note his race with bemusement: last night there was a thread that garnered over 100 stars with someone saying “white males are the real terrorists in America.”