I think that’s exactly it. Half of the “edgy” opinions I read are ones that I’ve heard so many times in so many different forms that the only thing I actually take offense to is the wasting of my time in reading them.

Could be worse, he could have ripped off Bane from The Dark Knight Rises for his inauguration speech.

My husband calls this “guy hot.” When a white woman is blonde, not fat, not flat-chested, and groomed to “hot girl” standards, she can have just terrrible features but guys will still think she’s hot. “Hotness” isn’t about looks, it’s about conformity.

The face is where you first popshow your personality or thoughts. If someone doesn’t care about you as an individual, why would they care about your face? As long as you’ve got two of what there needs to be two of and one of what there needs to be one of, you’re perfect. Most of the time, bleaching your hair is like…

I chuckled at “boobing”

I have no idea! When I bleached my hair out random men would stop me in the grocery store and tell me how beautiful I was and how lovely my hair was. It was ratty as Hell from all the treatments lol. It wasn’t really even nice blonde hair.

It is bizarre. I think the hair bleaching (tanning, boobing, etc.) acts more as a signifier of wanting to conform and please. Many people find *that* attractive in a woman. #NotAllFakeBlondes

She has to be skinny, too, by any means, and put implants in various parts of her body (breasts, butt, cheeks, wherever), and chop off most of her nose, if that makes you feel better.

Why is it that a white woman only has to bleach her hair to be considered attractive by other white people? It’s like no one even looks at their faces to consider their features. This photograph is a good example of that. Throughout junior high, highschool, and university me and my brown friends wondered about this.

Where are they going to once they vote with their feet? What industries have thriving unions? 

Another unintended consequence is that basic admin jobs started requiring college degrees. It’s horrifying that answering phones now requires a BA but pays a GED salary.

At my college graduation, the college president made a fundraising plea in her speech she got booed big time.

Aw, hell yeah! Back in the 80s, when I was applying to grad school, professors were telling us (and maybe believed) that there would be lots of retirements in the 90s, creating openings for my generation. Didn’t happen. Well, the retirements happened, but a lot of the tenure-track positions were eliminated. That said,…

While adjuncting we got ZERO support form tenured staff. In fact, it was awful how they even refused to look at us when passing in the corridors.

Every single student who applies to a PhD program needs to be given a hard lecture about their chances of making anything out of it. This system is designed for each and every one of them to fail, then make themselves feel inadequate for doing so. Higher education is an abusive spouse in a country club with everyone…

I spent a decade earning my doctorate in the humanities and don’t regret it at all ... I also don’t regret saying “fuck that shit” when the only avenue forward in academia was adjunct work. Instead, I took my degree and found a job with a starting salary double most assistant professor and don’t even need to deal with…

This is me. I work at a small university in Oregon. The only reason I survive is because my husband secured a professorship. It’s important to understand the alienation going on here in addition to economic inequalities. While I teach in the english department, my “office” is across campus, in a small cubicle in a…

I got to that sentence and stopped cold. What the hell, Jane? Why would you ever put that in there? Someone is having some relatively minor new in-law drama, and you suggest she married the wrong person? That’s.....I can’t call that a jump, it’s so far beyond.

Also, maybe you married the wrong person? When that happens we often look for signs of trouble anywhere we can find it. Think about it.