I like this. Just my personal preference but I appreciate an actual full human voice as opposed to that weird twee half waify voice kind of popular now.

I heard if you insert a chocolate coated tampon into your vagina you will shortly afterwards poop Hershey’s kisses. It true. I read it on the internet. I think it was Goop.

“According to Blackless, Fausto-Sterling et al., 1.7 percent of human births are intersex, including variations that may not become apparent until, for example, puberty, or until attempting to conceive.” From Wikipedia entry on intersex. Sure, a small number of those are born with ambiguous genatalia but that’s not…

Agree with you here, and probably this child is not intersex anyway. But I wanted to clarify that, for intersex children, we can accept that medical interventions to alter an intersex child’s organs is a harmful thing to do without denying that it would be beneficial for the child’s health for the doctor to know about…

I think it sounds like the parent chose to make this stand, and once the child decides they identify one way or the other it’s unlikely the parent is going to stop or repress them or whatever. Seems most likely if they were born a girl or boy, they’ll develop that way naturally. From what I’ve read and learned from…

Interjecting science with an outdated term? :-/ sure... I hadn’t used that term as it is not what I was describing and is often used as a slur against intersex people. Yes the problem is we only have two culturally recognised genders right now. Things like having a third option addresses that issue.

Yeah, this was my first thought - I would bet that’s NOT what’s going on here, but frankly there are babies born which physiologically don’t fit into the gender binary, and the option of going “U” should have already existed for them rather than just arbitrarily deciding to make whatever seemed like the less intrusive…

It’s impossible to say for sure, but children are born intersex more often than we’d think. They’re often operated on as children to look more one way or the other (often at a sacrifice of part of their genatalia) and assigned a gender that later in life may or may not be correct for them. It’s tricky and complicated.…

That was what made the Cersei and Jamie in the crypt rape the worst for me. She had not, explicitly, been subjected to sexual assault, and her motivations were much more complex in reaction to her place in society as a woman... and then, it became all muddy with that rape. :( And the lack of sexual assault has been…

At some point in the first few episodes (the show made me rage-y and I quit), she behaves so unnecessarily terrible at her job that she gets fired, refuses her dad’s money because reasons, then GOES INTO A DUMPSTER TO FIND FOOD. I want to find the people who think that is funny and/or relatable, and punch them.

Huh? Jon Hamm was with Jennifer Westfeldt for 18 years up until a couple of years ago. She’s 47. Who else has he been linked to? Also, I’m 33 and would totally date someone in their mid 40s.

Re: Betsy and her EU hatflag, I think it’s important to point out that the usual garb for this ceremonial nonsense is full crown and robe. This year, she not only made the decision to drop the proper outfit and go in ordinary day clothes, but she deliberately chose to wear an outfit that just happened to include an…

Yeah, it’s just a big power play. I’ve heard of incidents where they make the woman move because it isn’t seemly to make the man concede anything. Fuck ‘em, make them jog around the whole plane negotiating this bullshit themselves.

I can think of few situations where being seated next to an 81 year old woman is a dangerous situation. Unless it’s my Grandma and she just found out the restaurant doesn’t serve wine.

I have an autoimmune disease and thought the same thing, actually.

It was seriously a really good analogy and the constant knee-jerk reactions calling everything offensive is desensitizing and not helpful when actual offensive things are said.

Same, tbh it paints a pretty clear picture of navigating extreme fame. Especially since she specifically called out food allergies, which are indeed a bitch to deal with (saying this as someone with Celiac).

My problem with it is it sounds you un-graceful. “It’s like having an autoimmune disease,” has zero pizzazz. “She’s like AIDS!” Now that’s a headline. 

You said: “The answer was, of course, Kevin Durant.”

The *only* thing that’s not perfect about Shade Court is that there are so few cases of real shade. But that’s a humanity problem, not a Kara problem. And I guess if we’re addressing humanity problems, I’ll begrudgingly admit that there are bigger fish to fry on that front.