Also, on the “gutsy” front, I am going to assume this writer is not a parent. I don’t have the details from the anecdote in question, but if one of Hillary’s friends is talking about her young child, I’m going to take “a few years ago” to mean in the 1990s when HC herself had a young child. At that time (or even…

So, she reveals that she supports trans people and that she’s learning and trying to better herself on a topic and human condition that she wasn’t familiar with for most of her life. And the takeaway here is that that’s “not pretty”? The purity tests are unreal.

I still don’t know what an art monster is. 

It’s interesting that your immediate response is to try to find some way to gatekeep this commenter. It’s like if someone disagrees with you surely they can’t be Mexican or Puerto Rican enough.

Yeah, I mean, I love the melding of cultures. It’s been going on for thousands of years. Russian architecture has a major Byzantine component, Japanese culture, art, etc is strongly influenced by China, Degas and van Gogh were influences strongly by Japanese art. If culture isn’t allowed to influence other culture,…

I don’t agree with the letter at all, I’m Mexican and Puerto Rican. I could care less if they want to put a pattern on a dress. Saying certain patterns or styles only belong to the mexican people is ridiculous, what are you going to do copyright it? I find it flattering that people want to wear our styles. Let it live…

OMG HOW DARE SHE?

And naturally TWO articles on Jezebel perpetuate this imaginary slight.

As a physician, from the medical perspective I find this fascinating and the nurse is clearly a wonderful human being. That is a wayyyy longer surgery than a normal hysterectomy.

quelle surprise.

If I were the advisor, I would be terribly embarrassed.

Yes! My good friend is an academic and she mentioned this bit of information when we were chatting about Wolf’s interview. It’s one thing if it got past a regular editor, because commercial publishing is full of ‘fact-adjacent’ bullshit - no one really cares as long as it sells.

But this was her dissertation! Wtf?

Being flagrantly wrong about easily checked facts is kind of Naomi Wolf’s thing.

What surprises me is that the book was a rewriting of her Oxford doctoral dissertation, which means this fundamental error, which undercuts the premise of her book, made it past her thesis advisor and her viva/doctoral defense.

That’s like making a hockey pun for an article about tennis.

...I know you are trying to be cute, but something deep within me needs you to know that knitters and quilters are very different people and not equate them. 

As a quilter and sewer I literally assumed this was going to be drama of someone using someone else’s fabric scissors on non fabric and I want you to know that in my head I thought war was FULLY justified just based on that.

As reported by DCist, Susan and the like have descended on HU’s hallowed grounds with their puppies on parade despite the fact that Northwest D.C. is full of nearby recreational parks.

I get why people hate poachers, I do, but there’s a weird dehumanization people have regarding them. They’re humans, and they’re often driven to kill animals for money, money that goes to countries like China and the US. They’re often poor, and they do dangerous things for money like this because people outside their…

Help me out...correct me if I’m wrong, my takeaway is someone took a shot of a photo in the Knowles-Carter home that was meant to be private? If this is true, why are you reposting it?!?