Things are too dire to worry much about decorum... I’m pretty confident RBG herself is making the same prayers.

In theory, sure — in practice, nooope. Few things are more annoying than trying to get home at the end of the night and ending up in a carriage full of loud, drunk girls who think they’re being *adorable*

I also had a loving mother who spanked me (until the first time I tried to fight back, probably around age 11). She never hurt me — the damage done, as you say, is the degree to which it eroded my trust in her. It is still the purest terror I’ve ever felt: trying desperately to plead my case as my mom lunged with…

I am only alive because I was born in a hospital. I looked fine, but I had a hidden congenital defect that would’ve killed me within a week.

This won’t be a popular take, but it is absolutely racism (albeit of a kind we’re almost all guilty of). Mostly subconscious, generally non-malicious... but it is still racism. And it still has a negative societal impact.

Ugh, I realize I’d actually been thinking about this purely in terms of transwomen too. Transwomen are obviously super vulnerable to sexual assault in male prisons — are vagina-having transmen similarly at risk in those facilities? Or do cis guys leave them alone?

Totally agree that republicans can STFU with this hypocrisy, but don’t let Kimmel off the hook here. Maybe Eastern European accents get a pass in the States, but in the UK post-Brexit, they probably attract the most vitriol from random bigots and strangers (and are constantly told to ‘go back to their country’).

“If you shoot one person, they give you life, they give you the death penalty,” Trump said earlier this month at a White House summit on opioids, as reported by Politico. “These people can kill 2,000, 3,000 people and nothing happens to them.”

This is exponentially more dangerous than anything we’ve seen from Trump so far.

The thing is, by this logic, people who live in fear of the police shouldn’t consider themselves to be suffering because their lives are much easier than, say, someone living in Eastern Ghouta. The worst kinds of pain — loss, heartbreak, physical pain — hurt just as much in every language.

I don’t know, I think her alternatives sound super-condescending (“You have great taste”) or backhanded (“Your style really suits you”). Plus, the whole premise violates Bond’s second rule of providing specifics! It’s more flattering and useful if you just tell me you love my damn shirt.

Still nope — if it helps, don’t think of the phrase as ‘Amen’. It’s used the same way Catholics make the sign of the cross: Throughout the day, to praise God when something good happens, to acknowledge his greater wisdom in face of the bad, and for God’s protection against misfortune, danger, or evil.

Got to love that Trump-era logic... Allahu Akbar is a ‘battle cry’ because Blah. has self-segregated well enough that he never, ever hears it in other contexts.

I don’t remember hearing cunt or twat much in the US, so maybe that’s how they’re used there... but here in the UK they definitely don’t have weak/hysterical undertones — just assy, idiotic behaviour.

PEOPLE. Lux is not saying the donut guy raped her. Her revelation is that giving consent out of fatigue or fear is something many women seem to do, and yet we all think of it as a shameful personal failing.

True and fair! But my impression is that they didn’t believe him for a second (Madsen, after all, had no evidence to support his own claim, and he dropped it pretty quickly).

When two people go down in a submarine and only one comes up, it generally doesn’t look great.

It’s absolutely possible, but remember she was only on the sub for a few hours before she was killed — and Madsen’s sub had been floating around since 2008 with, as far as we know, zero fatal accidents.

1. Totally second everything you wrote (though sadly and/or thankfully? I don’t live on the West Coast anymore)

This is a great analogy. Of course, Palestinians are even more oppressed/attacked/devalued by Israelis than black people in America are by the white establishment.