I think you have to be very clever to pull of being insulting-edgy-funny. As in people like Matt Stone/Trey Parker, Dave Chapelle, Louis CK and George Carlin. Just being mean isn't funny which is why it's so uncomfortable to watch. Also, she refers to herself in third person which is just douchey.

I just don't get why my fellow white folks feel such a need to use that word. Growing up in the South, I have an almost visceral reaction to hearing it, and I don't even say it when I'm singing along to a T.I. song by myself. It just feels wrong. White people look silly saying it when trying to be cool, anyway.

Speaking of plastic surgery, I'm curious: do women with surgically-altered breasts (I dislike using the term "fake") really lose sensation in their nipples? I was having lunch with a friend who was lamenting the fact that after her surgery, she "couldn't feel shit" in her nipples which I thought really sucked because…

I definitely agree with you. Folks get so bent out of shape when a child defies traditional gender norms. It seems as though most people don't handle it well when presented with non-binary concepts.

The way they have that poor elephant's body mashed up against the tree like that is giving me the heebie-jeebies. Talk about no dignity in death. Elephants are sentient creatures too, no? How could someone shoot something like that for no reason?

I think I had that same rainbow bracelet thing growing up.

Well then perhaps you cavort in more privileged social circles than have I.

I don't know a single woman who hasn't at some point utilized the PP services. I always liked that if I was between jobs or didn't have insurance or whatnot I could always count on them; they've got to be one of the best, most dedicated and useful organizations in the country and fuck if they haven't fought super hard…

Not to mention, people will get offended over the most ridiculous shit. I used to subscribe to W magazine and I remember they had a really cool photo spread featuring those elephants who paint, and people went nuts in the letters to the editor talking about how they were never going to read W again because OMG the…

Here is my response to everyone who would be offended by the lovely picture:

lol

Sorry, dear, my uncle lives in Huntsville and I have other relatives in Birmingham, and those two cities (while yes, they are the more liberal ones in AL) are definitely no Austin. I'll have to agree with the OP here.

That's awesome! For the record, I always loved history class. My AP US History teacher in high school was very feminist, and she had us read one of my favorite books: "America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines" by Gail Collins. It's one of those history books that reads like a narrative.

Ha, I noticed your handle. Funny :)

And then there's people like my aunt who died in her early 60s from lung cancer and she never smoked. Go figure.

Hahaha no joke!

Sounds like someone needs a cigarette.

Oh man, I think black coffee kept my Gram alive into her 90s. She'd make a carafe of black instant coffee with Sweet N'Low (blech), stolen from restaurants of course, and drink it alll daaay looong while sitting on the couch in a muumuu watching her "stories" and crocheting afghans.

Ouf, Irish Wild Rose?! That's some hard drink!

I've always felt that "history" sort of panders to minorities (I'm including women here in the word minority) with the attitude of, white men accomplished 90% of all awesome things in humanity, but hey, you guys (minorities) helped some, too! Look, in February we'll mention how George Washington Carver invented peanut…