My wife loves that channel. I just can’t figure out how a man who designs paper airplanes and his girlfriend who makes artful potpourri can have a budget of 1.3 million for a house.

My rule of thumb-don’t hurt my partner, don’t hurt my relationship. It’s very simple, you still get to disagree and be upset, you just don’t get to call them a cunt or try to make them feel like shit.

Team Dylan

Hannah Arendt has a good piece on this and she frames it in regards to the Holocaust. It’s not forgiveness in the sense of just letting people off the hook or forgetting, but in the sense that it takes some letting go in order to live your own life. I think Korean vengeance movies explore it pretty well also

This is my beef with game of thrones.

I’ll walk out of the room if Mr Ginger’s watching a show with a gratuitous rape scene in it - rape is used too often to develop a male character, either as a damaged monster rapist or a raging protective type. The related female characters are one-dimensional background characters who are raped, killed off and…

I’d rather see her in White Bear, but I’m a bit cruel tonight.

At least his wipers won’t stick to the windshield. #silverlining

HR Departments are so shady, those Fakey McGaslighters just exist to snitch on employees to the executive level and make rich dudes richer.

One of the many sad, infuriating things about all of this, is how many women; actresses, directors, producers and writers, left the business because of Swinestein and the men like him? How many great stories have we missed out on?

What kind a music you play. (I used to be in a ska band)

As if our current administration would do anything for people they view as subhuman and terrorists.

Yeah. The only men - and I mean ONLY - that I would have a hard time coming to grips with would be my husband and my brothers. And then, I’d have to look at them suspiciously and skeptically. No knee-jerk defense, though. And anyone outside of that circle for me? I’ll literally believe it about nearly anyone.

this reminds me of that part in The Handmaid’s Tale where Serena Joy is forced to throw out the books SHE WROTE on conservative values because the culture that SHE CREATED does not allow women to read. these women are literally creating their own oppressors.

Somehow I doubt your friend who is so uber-conscious of crossing lines with women that he refuses to be alone with them unless his wife is chaperoning was taken to HR solely for offering a woman a chair in a meeting. Sounds like there’s a lot of backstory there that doesn’t end with “and out of the blue, I get in…

“unprofessional and immature behavior”

Well, that’s just wrong. They are not a state and are not subject to all US taxes, but they do pay some of them, including income tax. In fact, they actually pay almost as much to the federal government as some states.

You know what you call a woman harassed at work who didn’t report it? EMPLOYED.

You should read The Doomsday Book. (The novel, not the actual one.) She gives LOTS of detail on people dying of the plague, and a really good modern first person account of it. It’s so disgusting, but so interesting!

Let’s go, PA Dems! It’s much easier to win an open seat than to un-seat an incumbent. It’s an R+11 district, so not exactly competitive, but not impossible either.