If I wanted to vote for competence, I sure as fuck wouldn’t vote for the delusional revolutionary who thought we could bomb Libya and Iraq into being functional democracies. When Bernie is too incompetent to bring about his revolution, he’ll just fail to get anything through congress. When Hillary was too incompetent…

But there’s no denying that had Bernie been Bernadette you’d have to get tied to a stake to feel the Bern.

I know someone who met Charlize at an event and afterwards they all went out to a local pub. After buying everyone shots, she she drunk dialed her buddy Keanu Reeves and had everyone say hello to him. It was apparently clear from the tone of his voice this has happened more than once and he thought it was funny. She…

I’ve only ever heard that’s she’s kind and caring. She’s a blunt talker, but god knows there are enough beloved men that are blunt that don’t get half the shit women do for the same.
She’s a pretty tireless humanitarian, pours a ton or her own time and cash into her outreach charities, she’s a UN Messenger of Peace,…

I think Charlize actually produced Monster. She got the backing and distribution of the film secured, it was something of a pet project for her.

Exactly, if my husband leaves dishes laying around, I have no problem telling him to cut it out. But someone I don’t know? I have too big of a problem with confrontation for that.

The fiction program at Iowa is wonderful. There has been no predatory behavior from any of the fiction faculty that I’m aware of. The environment is a little competitive, of course. But overall, it’s awesome. Also, Iowa City is a great place to live for a few years.

I’ve made this argument before. They never bother to respond. I also like to point out that being “white” (at least in the US) is defined by not being non-white. There is no other useful definition. So any celebration of “whiteness” is necessarily going to be racist.

“In America you can’t even talk about whiteness,” said Drew Domalick, who lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin. “If you try to embrace being white, you are portrayed as being a racist. If we had a White History Month, that would be viewed as a racist holiday.”

Designers are there to make women more beautiful, to give them their freedom

The French have an unhealthy obsession with what Muslim women do, wear or fuck. Their continued obsession is a leftover from when they ruled large parts of the Maghreb, Levant and sub-Saharan Africa. They can't stand the fact that no-one cares for their bullshit about France being the centre of modernity and birth…

Oh shut up. Do you even know anything about it? That is an ignorant AF statement.

source?

“In life you have to chose the side of freedom,” he said. Rather than covering women up, “we must teach (Muslim) women to revolt, to take their clothes off, to learn to live like most of the women in the rest of the world.

“In life you have to chose the side of freedom,” he said. Rather than covering women up, “we must teach (Muslim) women to revolt, to take their clothes off, to learn to live like most of the women in the rest of the world.

There might be a revolution, alright. It just might look a lot like the fucking Handmaid’s Tale.

I don’t this this is the case in every MFA program and I wouldn’t let it stop you. What I would do is your research — when you get your acceptances, GO VISIT. Reach out to current students and ask about their experiences. Ask them what they like best — and LEAST — about workshops. Ask them about what the social…

This is the best and most thoroughly and thoughtfully written article I have ever read on Jezebel, and thank you so much Jia T. for it. I am in awe.

Sadly, that’s not nearly the case. I’ve seen so many insufferable, thoroughly mediocre male writers get break after break after break. All the while acting like total assholes. It’s not the quality of the writing that determines how much of an asshole you can be and still be successful in the literary community, it’s…

Iowa poetry grad here to say that this was exactly my experience; I never knew if my poetry was valued by my male professors, or if I was simply paid more attention because of my sexuality. I unfortunately got the short end of the stick with the one female poet I had workshop with, too, as she was a hack and very much…