There is nothing more tiresome and counterproductive than the white liberal thing of proving you are woke by calling out other white people less woke than you. I’m so over it.

I read a book about van halen by their former manager and much of the shit they did in regards to women would be a fireable if not prosecutable offense today. The *best* part was the managers defense of groupies blowing roadies to get access to the band.

Wait, there is an office in the trump administration that is actually doing the job it is supposed to do instead of the exact opposite? Is claire’s owned by a big democratic donor?

I think the argument that there just aren’t enough of x applicants in the field is used so often as an excuse that people are tired of hearing it. Especially because sometimes the issue is that companies look for people who will be white, i.e. you have to have gone to certain universities, majored in certain things,…

San Francisco: “Holy shit, it’s like going to Prague in 1993!!!!”

In my limited exposure to the world of art curation, nearly all of ‘em are white ladies, including some african art curators.

Yeah. I really think we need to get away from the idea that only people who are tangentially connected to a certain group can have anything to do with that group professionally. We need more people of color in academia, the arts, management, etc. we do not need them there so we can ghettoize them into writing/working…

Yeah, as someone who’s mom drank a bottle of wine a night, that whole “mommy needs her mommy juice thing” is no joke to me. Even having two glasses of booze a night to unwind is ultimately not the best behavior. I’ve cut back my intake because I found that I needed it too much. But again, if you want to have a glass…

I hate all the mommy wine shit. I have no problem with a parent wanting to have a glass of wine or two after struggling with a cranky toddler all day, or after working all day and then struggling with a cranky toddler at night. But the whole “but first wine!” bullshit just seems to advocate/normalize…

I worked at a music chain in the 90s and our manager would blast ace of base and the real mccoys. It was literally the worst. Then I worked at a bookstore and we had a 100 disc changer. The only issue was that there were a handful of super skronky late sixties john coltrane albums. Try listening to “Interstellar…

I am from NorCal. Is it common for people from L.A. to be so overtly racist?

Yeah, I take “believe victims” to mean “assume they are telling the truth but verify.” I think that as it becomes less risky to make claims of harassment/assault/rape/etc., and even in some cases advantageous, it is worth being a little skeptical, particularly if the story doesn’t totally add up or there is some…

I didn’t say she was a patsy. I think she has nothing to do with the russians, personally. I guess I wasn’t clear. I think the russians are all about her, just like they are all about BLM and the NRA and abortion and anti-abortion and any other issue that gets U.S. citizens fighting against one another.

I 100% believe that the Russians are both promoting and detracting AOC in social media. that is their MO - divide and conquer. I am sure the love her candidacy. However, I also think that her brand of socialism is something that has been stewing for years among people under 40, starting with Occupy Wall Street. Also…

I didn’t vote for Sanders in the primaries because I didn’t think there was enough of a there there with many of his ideas, and the idea that he’d actually be able to get anything accomplished seemed pretty small. He’s a ranter, which can be good, but POTUS needs more than a ranter - it needs someone that understands…

There is having cordial relations, or even saying deadeyed on camera “that was fun and consensual” so you can pick up your check, and there is writing texts about how great the sex was, with particular reference to how pleasurable the specific sex acts you claimed were non-consensual and painful were. Assuming his…

It’s also weird, if they had arranged to have daddy role play sex, that she would call him out for making daddy role play remarks.

For one thing, the other two stories were both based on online things that went viral - a shitty article, a reddit thread. The link in the story on the founders thing is....a case filing for an employment discrimination lawsuit. Had the trillium thing been based on a lawsuit rather than a douchey article, would that…

Her songs on the Tangled soundtrack are pretty great.

This is where I get a little confused about the progressive tack, which seems to be that the best way to fight the almost total control far-right conservatives have over state and federal governments is to go super far left. Maybe this is wisdom, but it also feels a bit like applying for C-suite jobs when you just got…