I’m inclined to believe her too, and I’m also pretty convinced that France has pulled some sort of massive (and successful) marketing campaign on Americans. France is a pretty ordinary country. It has its rednecks and its backwoods weirdos just like the US. Its biggest city is notably sophisticated...just like the US.…

I’d like to know more about her story. She’s an unsung hero who no doubt has a lot to say.

Pretty white lady is pretty! Pretty people can’t commit crimes! They can only be victims of crime or compelled into crime by bad men. Pretty women have good, pure souls, that lead them astray until they can cry a little and rise above times of turmoil. Women, wow, so inspirational, glass ceiling.

I don’t know if it’s still like this (and I’m not about to check) but the TSA’s social media accounts used to have a bizarre amount of dissonance between the pictures and the captions. I vividly remember one where someone was trying to smuggle razor blades in the cardboard cover of a book, and the caption cheerfully…

This right here. This is how E! tried to justify its sex discrimination. “He works more than she does” or “he does X more than she does.”

BBC is choosing who commentates which matches and which matches to show the most of, so if they want (and they DO) to hear more men and pay them more, they just give them the matches they’re most likely to cover. His commentating is not as good as hers imo and he can be super condescending.

I tend to agree with Sam Foster up thread that this is more about protecting assets that a sudden awakening of principles on the part of these wives. One married an actual Trump, the other married a long time Trump employee. You don’t do either unless you’re fine being married to lying trash as long as you get a cut…

This guy started as 45’s caddie and is now the WH social media director? For fuck’s sake, the Community Relations head (so basically the social media director) for the school district I work for has a master’s degree and there are FIVE schools in the district. 45 has a freaking golf caddie overseeing this country’s…

I think the most egregious pay discrepancy is Claire Balding vs anyone else in sport commentary.

It’s not lunatic for people to get annoyed by someone taking videos of them eating. Also, the use of the word “Self-censorship” is quite misleading, it implies that people are prevented from expressing their views due to societal pressure when in fact, these societal norms are there to prevent others from being…

Filming other people without permission is a serious problem with legal consequences in a whole lot of places, including the west, and Japan is stricter about privacy.

Being noisy in public transports; there are signs telling you to put your phone in “manner mode” (Silent Mode) and not making or answering calls.

I think this is really about respecting the privacy and hygiene of others. It’s not really expecting everyone to follow a long list of customs, but rather a strong but rational reaction to a foreigner pulling a stunt that potentially invades the privacy that you expect when eating at a restaurant.

I can’t imagine she wasn’t made to sign a prenup, so in all likelihood she already knows what she’s getting.

Weird. A model married a doofus because he was rich and it didn’t work out.

And why electing people who have spent their careers fighting city hall to be DA’s has consequences: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/crime/meek-mill-philadelphia-district-attorney-larry-krasner-wont-oppose-release-prison-20180314.html

It’s a real mystery where we’ve managed to get that image of them, isn’t it? Darn that tricky librul media!

The indigenous people of the Philippines are descendants of ancient Black people. Maybe the Australoids. Someone upthread said that the indigenous peoples were Austroneasian. Whatever they may be, it is clear that the indigenous Filipinos are more closely related to ancient Black people than to any other group. The…

My best friend, who happens to be Filipino, she put me on to this. But she also mentions that these tribes were called “Little Negritos” by the Spaniards, and were thought to be related to the African Pygmies. It was found, though, that they were genetically more similar to Austronesian. But I need to do more…

Seeing a black woman hate on Bruno Mars while using a Japanese handle that means “I love you” should be a textbook example of the word irony.