I do enjoy my LaCroix quite a bit but they’ve gotten competition for my dollar now that Trader Joe’s has those sparking waters with a little bit of juice. I don’t like LaCroix less, but I used to buy mostly LaCroix and now some of their new competitors have taken that share.

I feel like this study goes under ‘representation matters’ and if you show men images of fatherhood when they are at the OB/GYN office, they find it easier to imagine themselves being active as fathers. Part of toxic masculinity is telling men that it’s emasculating to participate in work that’s gendered as feminine, t…

Yeah, I like preemptively blocking people. If they seeking out people to yell at, I figure it’s just a matter of time before I stumble upon the keywords they look for so I figure I save myself from hearing from them eventually.

I’d say if they’re making another ad, they determined the anti-misogyny ad paid off in good PR more than it cost them in lost customers and that another ad would continue to pay off more than it costs.

It was bad enough when I learned I should give up cookie dough because of the e coli possibility but are we headed to a world where we have to think if pancakes get hot enough to eat safely? Sigh.

Winterson’s prose doesn’t quite do it for me but I read several of her books just based on the BBC movie (hm, I guess it was a miniseries there, A&E aired it as a movie in the US) of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, which is marvelous. I still get sad when I think about how Charlotte Coleman isn’t with us any more. She…

That’s my only issue with the casting and it probably can be fixed.

Yeah, honestly, I don’t know. When I first learned about abortion, I was anti-choice because I learned about abortion from anti-abortion people and I was fairly religious at the time. I changed position when I was in high school and I learned the full picture of the issue, about the danger women were in when they…

I would have enjoyed Dany’s descent into madness if it had been about how a leader who is motivated by the right ideals can end up betraying those ideals as they become convinced that only they can fix the world and as their advisors become an echo chamber of true believers (which would have required having more than…

He starred in a movie series that was very popular with teen girls which gives him perma-cooties.

On a related tangent:

I loved the masturbation episode for that reason, there’s so much about boys discovering their boners but female characters are only now getting to have an awkward phase. Such a funny show.

I agree with you but I also think Democratic primary voters are also terrible at determining “electablility”. I mean, in 2004 Kerry was picked as the nominee on the idea that, as a veteran, he had an advantage in going against the “wartime president” Shrub without considering Kerry’s lack of charisma, his clunky way…

Yeah, Arya is a badass but she isn’t a ruler. She’d hate being expected to think of things like “do we have enough grained stored to survive the winter?” Those are matters that Sansa and Tyrion are well trained.

That’s my hope, too. It looks like it’s too much (sigh) to expect the media to get excited about a female candidate with plenty of solid policy positions (tho, I’m not sure about this one) but I’m keeping my fingers crossed this kind of focus on policy brings her the kind of grassroots following the media can’t…

Wikipedia is too “Just because they’re gay that doesn’t mean they’re notable” to be Murphy’s muse.

Yeah, I’d say as long as the algorithm continues to emphasize “engagement” and doesn’t do anything to undo how influencers can organize to like each other’s posts to help ensure they are prioritized by the algorithm, they’ll be fine. Those are much more important.

Imagine if they cared this much about living kids who don’t have access to lead-free drinking water.

My husband used to be buried in the Model Minority Fallacy (basically that black and brown people would be fine if they stopped blaming racism and worked as hard as Asian-Americans) and thankfully listening to Black Lives Matter activism has changed his mind.

I didn’t know that Warren was a conservative but when I saw the Politico headline (I still haven’t had a chance to read the article, TBH) but I wasn’t surprised. She’s good at speaking to conservatives and this explains that a lot. The GOP uses “personal responsibility” as a way to bash poor people and repressed…