I totally need more cold weather style tips. Chunky sweaters? Ok.

I totally need more cold weather style tips. Chunky sweaters? Ok.

She’s not a peasant. Her people are filthy rich merchant class, aren’t they?

I got fired yesterday! I got the flu and pink eye and hurt myself all in the space of a 6 weeks and missed 3 days and I clocked in 4 mins late from lunch several times. I also clocked in 1 minute early once.

That sucks! When I’m feeling emotionally sensitive like I am around my period I have like no patience for people.

Do you understand how dreadlocks work? You cannot undo them. She would have to shave her head.

Me too! What happened to you?

Nope. Those things are fungal infections and soap doesn’t eliminate fungus. You can’t wash away athletes foot. The way that fungus spreads is using showers or walking barefoot in places that people with fungus use. You cannot generate athletes foot on your own.

No, it comes down to a culture where gendered insults and rape jokes are “normal”. That’s not isolated individuals and pretending it is is intentionally putting your head in the sand.

So what is the option? If one cannot wear ones hair naturally and be employed?

Again, textured hair can only be worn in a few ways without chemical straightening. Again, texture is an immutable characteristic. Again, you are acting like dreadlocks are some alternative fashion choice like a mohawk when in fact they are one of limited choices available. Dreadlocks on naturally textured hair are…

Asking you to straighten your hair is bullshit. Asking for hair to be pulled away from your face is reasonable. That you comply with beauty standards that have nothing to do with professionalism doesn’t mean it’s not discriminatory.

You can’t mandate things that are unequally applied. It’s discriminatory to require heels on women but not men, for example.

Hair texture is an immutable characteristic. They ways in which it is managed are changeable in a limited way but it’s not like you can wash out dreads like you can curls in Caucasian hair. Black hair is not unprofessional. An afro is not unprofessional. Dreads are not unprofessional.

That you believe one rape victim doesn’t make you a feminist. Sorry, you don’t get a cookie for occasionally being a decent human while otherwise waving around the spectre of “false” accusations. It’s a distraction tactic and that myth actively damages the credibility and treatment of victims, who are routinely not…

Yeah, not advocating for inequality does not a feminist make. Thats basic decency. Holding biased views and spouting them on a national platform is what makes me sure. If you think an assault victim bears “equal” or really any responsibility for crimes against them, that’s not feminism. I’ve read too many of her…

I think maybe if people can’t or won’t control themselves and be civil and fill shared space with sexist or derogatory remarks, it is that person who needs to take a step back. We share this world and if you can’t do so with any measure of self-control and at least refrain from public sexism, racism, and gendered…

I mean never thought I’d want to get married. I still think we could work out some paperwork and have a bbq and call it good. But if it was important to my partner and he could explain why I would do it. Because the “idea” of getting married that I object to might not be the “idea” of getting married that’s meaningful…

She’s not remotely a feminist. I doubt she’d even claim to be. I read her for years and am very familiar with her sex-negative, teetotaling, traditionalist views. She has routinely put the blame on women in situation after situation and that paragraph before another screed on women’s responsibility to prevent rape and…

Red herring in comparison to?

I’m not saying it is. I’m saying that for some people what they object to when they say they don’t want to get married they mean the idea of forever and commitment and building a life together and that sort of thing. And other people mean the trappings of marriage - the party, the circus, the paperwork, the expense,…