Oh my god, yes, this. I look at people who don’t wear proper clothing in ridiculously low temperatures and it’s like, “For fuck’s sake, we all know you are painfully cold right now. Everyone has toque hair right now. Get over yourself and put on a goddamn hat.”

Yeah, I worked at a private school last year where the girls wore really short skirts all winter long with no tights or leggings. They had the option of wearing pants but none of them did and they hiked their skirts up as high as they would go. And while I don’t want to shame young women for the way they dress, I was…

Exactly. “Black Lives Matter” means “Black Lives Matter...as much as everyone else’s lives already do.”

Except the best hot chocolate is made with milk!

My ex used to get bad nausea from taking his anti-depressants and the only thing that helped was washing them down with a big glass of milk. Soy and almond milk didn’t really help as much, I guess because they don’t have the same fat content?

Yup. Which is why I eat at my desk and then go outside for a walk around the campus at the very least. The days in which I don’t get outside to stretch my legs and get some fresh air are the days in which I feel wretched by five o’clock.

She’s not talking about those kinds of jobs, though. There are very good reasons to not be able to take a lunch break regularly - like being an emergency worker or ER doctor or what have you. This article is about a particular kind of corporate/office culture where people who could take breaks are subtly encouraged or…

The child was not born alive and had to be resuscitated.

Yeah, that’s not a thing you should feel comfortable or proud to admit in public.

This is one of the reasons why I got tired of my progressive friends here in Toronto bellyaching over strategic voting. Many parts of the GTA are NDP strongholds and that’s great for them, but have they seen the wide swath of blue that is the middle of the country? People have the right to wrest what little agency…

Don’t feel too jealous. We’ve had some pretty bad ones, too.

I’ll be in my bunk.

Well, yeah. That too. But still, cultural genocide is a thing.

I think this speaks to Canada’s remarkably “good” job at erasing indigenous people, in both history and contemporary society. :(

What is this weird and unfamiliar emotion I am feeling all of a sudden?

I know, right? That’s a fucking sociopath statement right there, if I ever heard one. His desire to be friends with a person he deems “cool” trumps her right to feel safe and respected and not be violated.

Brad Pitt is basically Mr. Peanut Butter.

Can I star this a million times instead of just once pls? Because more people need to be saying this.

That’s fine. And her experience is totally valid. But she can’t speak for every other adult performer out there, either. I have no opposition whatsoever to Joanna speaking about her own experience. But I think it’s ok to note that we all have limited experiences based on our own perspectives and when I hear other…

By the way, you might be interested in the firsthand accounts some of Deen’s other victims have given about their experiences, because at least a few of them have said the opposite of Joanna Angel - that it is, in fact, part of a larger systemic issue. From a Buzzfeed interview with Lily LaBeau: