“Hahn” is German for “cock” (both senses of the word). Normally I wouldn’t point this out, since we are no longer in primary school, but she is now in a show called “I love Dick”.

It’s only a matter of time now before the pack turns on poor Kathryn Hahn.

This is my exact story too

Well, I wouldn’t say it was clear, but it sure would’ve been clear if Erdely had done her due diligence.

Mine suddenly became scared of a spider once (where she hadn’t before), so I picked it up (it was a tiny harmless one) and let her watch it crawl over my hand. Then I realized that was too far in the other direction, and had to tell her not to do that without checking with me first. We do occasionally get brown…

Totally agree with this. My parents had different standards for my brother and I - he could walk home from school alone, it was “too dangerous” for me to do the same.

Totally. It pissed me off so much when another mother helped my little girl climb up one of the weird twisty ladders at the playground when she was 3. When I absently told her, “go ahead—you can go it,” and then pretended to check my email on my phone, I wasn’t being negligent. I was giving her space to figure out how…

And as we’ve seen over and over in so many woman-centric arenas—sexual assault prevention foremost among them—the impulse to protect is very different from the impulse to ensure equity, and the two things, worked out in practice, are often exactly at odds.

This makes me glad that I was such a wild child who would not be told to “be careful,” “come down,” “not climb that,” etc. I may have a nasty scar on my forehead from not heeding such warnings but it’s better than the apparent emotional scars of receiving such warnings.

OH MY GOD DO YOU GUYS EVER TAKE A BREAK, GO READ A BOOK AND HAVE A CUP OF TEA AND DO SOME SUDOKU OR SOMETHING

totally agree. I think there are really important pieces that examine what led to a persons criminal actions in productive and ethical ways. simply examining a criminals background isn’t necessarily sympathetic. but this piece was not only sympathetic it was straight up strange with its fascination w/ an unremarkable…

It does come across as belittling. And why is the article “unfortunately titled”? What’s with the weird throwaway comparison to Beyonce without any more explanation?

I got into glassblowing because I smoke a lot of weed and watching glassblowing videos while high is a mindfuck. Granted, I’m “into it” meaning that I like learning about it and watching others do it, but I’ve never done it myself. I’d sure like to try it though.

From what I read after Alan Rickman died, the HP set was a nurturing place where the kids were treasured and mentored throughout all 8 films. That has to be part of the reason - they literally grew up in the best, most supportive environment possible for children.

I’ve been holding off taking my sabbatical because I feel like I should do something valuable with it, something meaningful and productive, and I fear if I don’t have a plan it will quickly turn into me playing PS4 for weeks on end. I guess I could “personally develop” my Fallout character. I’m aching to take some…

To be fair, she’s been working since she was 10 and she’s wealthy. Taking time off for college and to consciously self-educate seems more laudable than always running after the next part.

Rupert Grint never even turned his in.

“She’s important because she...I just really identified with her,” Watson reflects. “I was the girl in school whose hand shot up to answer the questions. I was really eager to learn in an uncool way. In a super uncool way, actually. And then the character of Hermione gave me permission to be who I was.”

Why the snarky tone of the article and all the unnecessary quotation marks (“personal development”, “homeschooling”, etc.)? Is Emma Watson now on Jez’s crap list?

Read the book too. Everyone should read Colm Tóibín.