In response to the flood of burners and, let’s face it, men moaning about how this advice is either: 1. sexist or 2. pointless because everyone recognizes these volunteer tasks and gives credit for it, allow me to present a small sample of the ways that I, a professional woman, have been asked to volunteer to do…

Is the billionaire in a nasty high-profile custody dispute over six children? No? I’d veer that way.

Here are a couple of interviews with Neko Case:

I just want to say that I read this. You lived it and survived it and I believe that everytime we tell our stories they weigh us down a little less. Wishing you a light heart and a healthy life.

I don’t understand why a person’s inborn hormonal advantages are any more “unfair” than any other natural physiological advantages.

What is unfair to the others? I’m sure it sucked cheering swimmers not named Phelps or runners not named Bolt in 2008, too.

one of the values of sport is to level the playing field when someone is born with an advantage? so should Mike Trout have to play with a heavier bat than everyone else? should Messi have to play with weights tied to his ankles? should we just turn into Harrison Bergeron?

There is nothing more difficult than standing in front of a group of people and letting silence be. (I know this from my teaching career...). It’s interesting to see the audience reaction - silence makes people so uncomfortable! Some feel the need to fill it - cheering, chanting etc - until the silence sinks in. …

Same thing they call a self-made black man who graduated from Columbia and Harvard Law: the n-word.

Everyone’s mourning Michelle’s protrait, like she didn’t pick the artist herself. She knew Sherald made flat dimension, surrealist portraiture that emphasizes quirky clothing and accessories on the subject and picked that look on purpose and did not argue the pose when she sat for it. Let her have this please.

I am tired of men defining real rape as “the level which I haven’t done to a woman”. The rape definition changes and doesn’t get believed because these men feel guilty as fuck because they knew in their hearts they’ve crossed lines and boundaries. Tarantino sits at home at night and lies to himself he’s not a rapist…

Man, I feel for this guy, I do. But goodness he’s gotta think a little further than the moment and himself. This is horribly traumatic thing to put your daughters through, RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM. Look at their faces when he first breaks for Nassar.

Slightly different take on that first one here. I was in the same situation for years: the sex was bad and my partner was unwilling or unable to improve. Even got into a fight now and then, with a memorable “why can’t we just keep doing this way” line thrown in. Recently we had a breakthrough though. I somehow managed…

Really ANY group of people.

This has been white feminism’s problem from the beginning. The white women with the power to speak out have the most money privilege and influence, but they most often get it by way of white men, the one group whose power structure they can’t rip down because it would cost them their money, privilege and influence. 

Individually, the lyrics are good, but the chorus sucks. It builds and builds and builds...and then the chorus hits and the music just drops, so it fails to actually climax or anything. The song crescendos, getting louder and louder and then...the chorus just softens everything, since she sings it in a whisper.

Good grief.

If you were a true ally, it would be impossible for you to be alienated.

I don’t know. I read that article this morning and was surprised at the number of comments about it being “sad.” IMO, just the fact that Smith is 94 years old and has enough mental acuity to be aware of her irrelevance automatically makes it not sad. What is unfortunate is that she only defines herself by what she…