I can’t believe I’m going to defend Mariah Carey, who I generally dislike. But if she was expecting to lip sync she probably didn’t do a vocal warm-up. Add to that the cold weather (even though it was fairly temperate in NYC, it was still about 40 degrees) and the dry air, and it wouldn’t have been very smart to…

Half of this fucked up country would pay to watch executions if given the option.

Yes. Men ballsmacking each other is part of the homosocial milieu in our society—affection tempered with violence to belie the taint of “gayness.” Women hitting men in the balls is a transgression, a refusal of all sexual dominance represented by the testicles.

As a ball-haver, I’ll say this. Getting hit in the balls is awful. But if men are going to be bigger and stronger (generally, there are a lot of women that could kick my ass in a fair fight) then women absolutely should go after the balls when threatened. I taught my sister that, I taught my nieces that, and it’s the…

This is so good. And mirrors so much of what I feel. Hopeless and angry and just so fucking full of rage at the class of men that I don’t know what to do with myself.

My single life has been entirely voluntary, and I’ve never been anything but upfront about being a single virgin in her 30s. People get used to it. Occasionally my sister moans about how much she wants to be an aunt, but that’s because her kids are just a hair too young for her to push for grandchildren and she’s…

What is it with other people being so goddamn shitty about other people lives and their lifestyle choices? These are the same people who can’t imagine a married couple being childless by choice. Not everyone wants the same things in life but that doesn’t mean their lives are without content.

I hate to be “that person” but as a Biologist I think this normally rare event could become more common with monoculture tree plantings. Monoculture stands such as pine, Christmas trees, often for profit but sometimes touted as “eco-friendly” have almost no diversity and therefore no variety of roots to stabilize or…

To my fellow minorities and marginalized folks:

Ugh teenagers, please stop making stuff up. You will get found out, and it will cast doubt on all the legitimate incidents of hate crimes post-election.

Did I ever tell you guys about this one time when it was almost Christmas time, and there I stood in another line trying to buy that last gift or two, not really in the Christmas mood. And standing right in front of me was a little boy waiting anxiously, pacing around like little boys do. And in his hands he held a…

Some people just REALLY want to get out of Detroit.

Whenever I gamed with a group, I made a point of “accidentally” destroying male characters who hit on my female character in game, which was always a lame attempt IRL. It was never a purposeful kill of an ally, it was more of a “in character, she simply did not care that he got caught within range of her attack.”

Isn’t the theory that even when it become a girl’s fantasy, it’s a sign of how society taught you too much to find your self-value in those physical aspects?

Wow, seriously? Tell that to the folks of Africville. Guaranteed they’d be awfully surprised to find out they were “basically whites” when their community got bulldozed to the ground.

I am aware of his professed religious leanings, but I think you are giving him too much credit. It is well known that the  abortion debate and gay rights were the abaltross around the Reform/Canadian.Alliance Party’s neck that kept them from attracting the swing voters that they needed to form government. Harper…

This isn’t really in response to you, but I don’t want to reply to the people who are actually saying this shit, and your comment is tangentially related:

A few years ago, maybe 2013 or 14, Secretary Hillary Clinton came to my work (not Wall Street, tech company) for a fireside chat and to promote her book. She talked at length about her experience as SOS, and one thing she discussed was how much “small offenses” matter to so many leaders and countries around the world,…

That thread is really hilarious right now.