“There’s a lot of White Feminism TM going on”

Exactly. This is like Michael Che attacking random writers who critique SNL, Olivia Munn writing an essay attacking some bloggers or Lizzo put some poor Postmates worker on blast. If you’re famous or even semi-famous, and you’re using your public platform to call out people who no one has heard of, you’re an asshole.

So I thought the Sarah Dessen book I read was pretty good, and she probably shouldn’t be used as a stand-in for Everything Wrong with Literature. And I agree with Weiner’s general point that books by women are sometimes criticized more harshly than books by men. But good lord, all of the authors quoted here need to…

She didn’t have to dox the girl to her hundreds of thousands of followers. She set this person up for cyber-bullying all because she had an opinion on her work. You’re better than that Sarah.

Yeah, I’m a little conflicted on this one but overall the author is being petty.

How would Dessen even find this criticism?

I seem to recall something about cats only being able to process certain needed enzymes thought meat.

Your regular reminder that decriminalization of sex work leads directly to less violence against sex workers and this is a pretty good example of why:

Reminds me of Anthony Sowell. He killed 11 women over many years, and stashed their bodies around his house and in his backyard.  The women were sex workers and/or drug addicts, so police didn’t really bother to investigate him despite multiple women reporting that he attacked them. The story makes me sad and…

Men like him are deeply paranoid about his daughter meeting the 20 year old version of himself.

But this is completely unrealistic for a small film from a country with a small film industry. The amount of money it takes to compete for the major prizes at the oscars (best picture, director, the acting awards, etc.) require huge amounts of money to be taken seriously. I’d bet that a number of the studios behind…

The one thing that COULD be preventing it for eligibility in the other categories is that a movie has to run theatrically for at least a week in NY/LA to be Academy eligible. That rule doesn’t apply to the foreign language, shorts, and documentary categories. Not sure if Lionheart played theatrically in The US or not. 

The state claims the spreadsheet helped find four patients who had unsuccessful surgical abortions,

In addition to the massive creepiness, it’s somehow perfect that a person who is an OBGYN can be so blinded by ideology that he forgets how bodies work, as if every menstruating person has a regular cycle, and knowing one detail about that cycle automatically reveals what medical procedures they’ve had.

This headline confused me because she was not zipped into them, she was stitched into them. I was like, why is being zipped into pants a big deal? Isn’t that how most pants work?

I’ve known about attachment theory for a long time now, but I have to say, I think life is a lot more complex than that. Of the people in my age group (their 40s), I can’t think of a single marriage that I admire, and only one that is OK-ish. The better you know people, the more you know how fucked up they are, even…

I saw this on RM and I was surprised that Maddow and Farrow seemed satisfied with it. It’s such an obvious way of trying to get individual, advance notice of any employee who might bring allegations. Why not just announce that everyone is released from anything in NDAs that might prevent them from reporting sexual…

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Rape is something that only happens to girls. This was just harmless fooling around.

You should learn to read.