Another tidbit to add to your foods for thought: Sometimes the most disingenuous people are the ones who are disingenuous to themselves; trouble is they are the false negatives that do not ping our bullshit detectors.

Not to compare apples to bananas, but “false negative” is the vibe I get from a certain candidate who…

When people tell me they have a good bullshit detector, it sets my bullshit detector off. Specifically the dial that meters for “confirmation bias”. ;-)

Thanks for this. I agree that Jezebel’s presentation of this study is disappointing. Lately I’ve noticed a pattern of J. describing mothers’ bodies as gross and our births as sexualised.

In my own anecdotal n of 2 study, my C/S baby has been plagued with eczema and asthma while my VBAC (and delayed bath) baby is…

Thank you for even reading this

(I sure didn’t)

Here, I transcribed the subtitles for you:

It is morning. (FART)

The air is filled with the heroin chic of flatulence, periodically co-mingling with other, somewhat less oppressive aromas:

The dozens of stale perfume samples she’d torn from the latest W magazine in an unmedicated fit of rage-depression.(FART)

Her…

Pretty sure the genre is “Vanity Fair photo shoot making-of documentary outakes”.

I stopped purchasing brown rice after reports came out showing that it has more arsenic than white rice of the same type.

This site recommends US-sourced sushi rice and India/Pakistan-sourced white basmati rice as lowest in arsenic.

I’d want to know as a wife/girlfriend. But mother/sister? That does not sit right with me. I’d want to support her if my hypothetical brother sent her a dick pic, but I’d feel harassed if she sent me the actual photo as evidence.

Come to think of it, even with partners I can think of scenarios that could be…

I hear you, I’m just saying that personally, I’d be okay with more diverse casting in period dramas. It’s not a kind of inaccuracy that draws my ire.

This, a thousand times this. I don’t want another Mad Men or another Vikings. Give me alternatives based on the 50s-60s Black Arts Movement of or Masai warriors.

Vikings has loads of historical inaccuracies, starting with the title. I find it odd that as viewers we fixate on colour-blind casting as a particular spot of bother, but not on other inaccuracies even when they are more outrageous and fantastical.

No joke, this quote made me cry.

Then I looked up Nate Parker (unfamiliar with his previous work) only to find that he was once acquitted of rape on the grounds that the alleged victim had had consensual sex the day before...?? what?

And now I don’t know how to feel. Except of course that Gabrelle Union is amazing and…

Not to mention, the advert says: “I do not think we will have much money available for pay...” IDK about your experiences but in my experiences, it’s women who are willing (reluctantly) to worth for peanuts or nothing, even in a field where unpaid “internships” are the norm. Publicity stunt my arse.

I feel really proud of myself for recognising this as sarcasm through my hormones and white-hot lady tears.

(Yeah and here is the part where I explain that I’m a woman, despite the username.)

THANK YOU for posting the video with Misty Copeland.
I thought of her as soon as I read the title.

People with poor boundaries tend to take benign comments personally, reading insult where there is none.

If, instead of having poor boundaries, you are just an unusually sensitive person, you might reconsider what you choose to share on the internet knowing that others might respond with suggestions that you seek help…

The fact that you took that as a personal insult and not at face value tells me you could still use a refresher course on boundaries. (And yes, I meant it as a statement of support.)

Ugh, that guy is the WORST. I wonder if they even ended up together.

“(which I now think was to control my answer - like proposing in public)“

I have been trying for YEARS to figure out why public proposals of marriage gross me out, and THIS. THIS. You NAILED it.

ETA: I’m sorry that happened to you. :/

That sounds absolutely terrifying. I am so sorry you had that experience.