Ruining a language is often the cry of those in charge who are frightened of those people and their weird ways destroying life for decent folk. If elites declare a certain way of speaking as inferior it allows them to exclude anybody who speaks that way because why would one associate with inferior people?

Prescriptivists: never not on the wrong side of history.

My grandma's cousin was 11 years old when her teacher impregnanted her. It's the family's biggest open secret that she's our uncle's real mom. My uncle is my dad's best friend from childhood (he introduced him to mom). My uncle, the baby in question, and my dad have NO idea. Everyone else is like, yup, it is known. He…

I'm so fucking over hearing about beautiful babies. I'm tired of people using babies as a silver lining to dismiss a traumatic event. I'm tired of the emotional manipulation to convince people that terminating pregnancy is tantamount to KILLING A BABY.

I know all you guys already know this, but it bears repeating. the vast majority of terminations that take place after 20 weeks are due to severe medical issues. Most women aren't just fucking around for 5 months making up their minds. The anatomy scan ultrasound that can determine whether the fetus is healthy, or…

I see Elizabeth not so much an anti-vaxxer but a hand-wringing, pearl-clutching, indecisive mess: "Oh, I just don't know!! Jess said she read this thing on Facebook about vaccines causing autism, but Todd says they are perfectly safe, and I just don't know what to do!"

I used to think that when I was a kid - I got very confused by the cover conflicting with the descriptions like the artist NEVER EVEN READ IT. That's defo Mary-Anne on the front cover of the first book. That was early in the series and I remember being very WTF about it, or as WTF as an 8 year old can be in 1992.

I disagree about Lydia Wickham. Her children would be raised by the internet while she played Farmville or obsessed about who slighted her on Twitter.

Wouldn't you expect cultural expressions of sexism (and other -isms) look different in different cultures?

I first came across the idea that female voices cut through noise better in The Making of Star Trek as an explanation for why they gave the ship's computer a female voice. Even way back then, I wondered if maybe that wasn't really true — if maybe the only reason female voices stood out to military personnel is because…

My reasoning (and I think it should be pretty close to reality) is the following:

Makeup has nothing to do with having crappy skin, and this is backed up by science. I've had acne my whole life and have tried everything—literally, everything—and I still get breakouts. The only thing that ever helped was Accuntane, and that was for my cystic acne, which is strongly genetic and nothing short of the…

I'm just glad the let her hair be glorious

Riddle me this...

I've experimented with wearing it and not wearing it, both at the workplace and socializing. I get treated better when I wear makeup, plain and simple. Well-groomed and wearing make-up, people treat me neutrally, like a woman who's plain but respects herself and is at least with the program somewhat. No makeup,…

It's not really cheating unless you think that every picture that doesn't look like it was taken with a crappy camera and no lighting is "cheating".

Why stop there? Let's deregulate all healthcare and do away with oversight. Hell, I always wanted to be a plastic surgeon. I should be able to hang a shingle outside my house and perform cosmetic surgery on whomever I want. This is 'Merica and no government is going to impede on my freedom.

Well this thread will certainly be grist for the "all feminists are misandrists who are okay with violence against men" MRA mill.

You know who washed his hands? Pontius Pilate, that's who!

When flammable = inflammable, all rules are moot so just go with what sounds better. English is a messed up language.