Yeah, I wanted to go to a fancy private school for a humanities degree that woulda cost $100K and my parents were like, “how you gonna pay for that” so I went to a state school. I still had to take out some loans, but i ended up with about $30k in debt after grad school rather than $150,000. That said, schools matter…

I remember an article about the 80s porn actress Savannah in Rolling Stone after her death by suicide. It talked about how she was living like she was making millions a year when she was making maybe $100k (in 1989 money, but still). And she was one of the biggest performers at the time.

I think white people, and especially white dudes, were already feeling threatened, and the orange one used that to play them against the rest of america/the world. Divide and conquer. and there are many, many outlets that reinforce this idea that white dudes are the REAL victims, so it is hard to get a decent…

My experience is that a lot of white dudes don’t feel like they are killing it and don’t know what their place in this world is. In the U.S. 70% of suicides are white dudes, mostly middle aged. We were sold one bill of goods that didn’t work out well for most of us or anyone else, and now much of the culture is…

....who was replaced by another woman of color.It seems unlikely that the asian, latinx, middle eastern, and african-american women on the board would have an issue with an outspoken woman of color, or that they would let the white members of the board attack wen without a reason.

5 is cheap for a beer in the SF bay area.

This site published an article about how the future of #metoo were grey areas like ansari’s. His name became mentioned in most articles about #MeToo, and a lot of ink was spilled on him in #MeToo discussions, often tacitly putting him in the same bracket as Louis CK and Weinstein.

I mean, jezebel ran an article about “The Next Step for #MeToo is in the Grey Areas” which was a lot about aziz and not so much about weinstein.

Agreed. I lived overseas, and it taught me both to value other cultures and perspectives, but also that other countries are just as/more fucked up than the U.S., and there is a lot this country gets right. And white dudes don’t have a monopoly on abusing power or being repressive a-holes.

I was genuinely sad when I saw this. Then I listened to their new song and was like, oh, i get it. She is one of the great rock drummers.

Some of this is clearly woo, but I have to say, there is an art to navigating depression, and meds should only be one part of that navigation. From my experience, meds can help, but they help in the same way taking ibuprofen can help with a broken foot or a shoulder that is inflamed from repetitive strain. You also…

I disagree with your premise that those jobs became less good once women and minorities started getting them. Being a lawyer is still a good job. Being a doctor is still a good job. Being a manager is still a good job. More people are graduating college and getting advanced degrees, which means there is more…

I dunno. I can’t speak to journalism, but I think advice by women who have been successful in typically male work environments about how they have done so isn’t inherently bad. and there are a million articles and a whole cottage industry of books written by men for men about how to succeed in business environments by…

I didn’t think you were. And I think they are linked - women have been ignored/mistreated by the medical establishment, and so are even more susceptible to woo. Most of the women I know who are super into woo are that way because they have had experience with doctors where they weren’t taken seriously, their concerns…

Ah. True. I’m pretty over her whole thing.

You can miss me with this. I am a lifelong hip-hop fan, and hip-hop has for decades had issues with misogyny, homophobia, and racism, moreso than any other genre of music besides maybe some strains of horroporn grindcore. It has gotten raunchier and more explicit in the last twenty years, to the extent that there are…

In the initial story, a bunch of regular DC metro users commented that the DC Metro is hardcore in enforcing no eating on trains. So while her actions were kinda petty and shitty, the context (riders are regularly cited for eating on trains) is important. But hey, who am I to get in the way of faux woke outrage?

That storyline broke me. I was crying. That whole series is amazing and one of my favorite comics ever.

A couple years ago a group of animal rights activists staged a protest in the downstairs restaurant at Chez Panisse on a Saturday night handing out flowers to people who had paid $200 a pop to eat there, and the activists were flummoxed that they didn’t find a more welcoming reception to their rhetoric. Animal rights…

That’s like saying participating in all-male orgies is flirting with homosexuality.