Frankly, ALL students should take a semester of home ec, or whatever they call it. Most of these kids are going to be living on their own some day, and will need to know how to keep a house, cook basic nutritious foods, and mend clothing; and most of them are going to eventually have kids of their own that they’ll…

It depends on what you mean by “smart”. They were certainly gifted thinkers but they were also unmistakably men of their time. Just about any modern Med school student probably knows more than the smartest Doctor of the 18th century about curing disease. Likewise, we know a ton of shit about governing that they…

May I present to you: “Kurdish women fighters wage war on Islamic State in Iraq”

I’d happily burn shit down to get the right to vote rather than leave it all in the hands of men.

first of all, i agree with everything you said

She deferred to me, and I was happy to give her an enormous amount of decision making just as a gift and let her take charge of so many things.

I’m shocked - SHOCKED, I tell you - that apparently the Playboy mansion is an environment where they don’t respect women very much.

This isn’t technically a blackout story, but here goes. Was in Jamaica in 1998 (this is important later) with a girlfriend staying at one of those “all inclusive” places-all you can eat food AND drink. Anyway, we were laying on the lounges pretty close to the water all morning and into the afternoon, drinking the rum…

I just noticed Jez is following me now. I will be phasing through all the categories as I get my drunk on tonight in celebration :)

Dex: “Doing stuff is overrated. Like Hitler. He did a lot. But don’t we all wish he woulda just stayed home and gotten stoned?”

This flag is racist as hell. We all know what it means and what someone is saying when they have it. That flag is interlocked with racism and violence.

I considered an amazing octopus fascinator, but the tricorne matched my dress better. Next time. 🐙

that gif isn’t an answer to people who stopped caring about the show because the writing and characters became terrible. unrelenting despair is one thing, boring and incoherent is another

As I’ve said before, this is where both the show and books have lost me. There’s no hope, which means I don’t give a single shit about any of the characters, which means I don’t care what happens and I’ll go watch/read something else.

And the only horse ever to have more heart than Big Red was Ruffian.

Another example being when they happily snap the trash off their picnic blanket and leave it on the grass to walk up to Don’s pristine Caddy.

I am fully convinced that this is the best movie made in the past ten years, for a whole slew of reasons. I didn’t even realize what an awesome feminist movie it was until a buddy sent me this link:

Thank you for sharing that video, I’d never seen it. Plus those women in the dry cleaning bags reminds me of one of my favorite Mad Men moments - little Sally and a friend enter the room wearing dry cleaning bags over their heads, playing “space alien”, and Betty is PISSED. Mind you, she’s not pissed because those…

Eh, I’ll go with the woman who saved more lives in US history than anyone else: Margaret Sanger.

I wonder that too. In their first interviews, the women said that Castro often pitted the other women against Knight. It’s unfathomable to think that you couldn’t even look to your fellow captives for comfort because your captor was manipulating them. This whole thing is just a shit sandwich with shit bread and shit…