My old job strongly encouraged everyone to have inspirational quotes at their desk (since we didn’t even have cubicles, the desks were just out there, so anyone passing by saw everything on your desk). I eventually caved in the form of a Welcome to Nightvale quote (“Confused? Unsure what to do? Wow, sounds like you’re…

There’s a flock of urban turkeys in my neighbourhood. I found this out when I woke up one morning to my cats going apeshit trying to slam themselves through the screen to get at the 3 turkeys standing in the driveway next door. I tried to explain to them that this was not going to go well (the bigger of the 2 is 9lbs,…

Yep, that’s the one. I guess it’s not as long ago as I remembered, less than a year.

I don’t know if it’s the same article you’re talking about, but there was one like that here on Jezebel a year or two ago. I was depressed as all hell by the comments. There were a bunch of people going on and on about how sad it was that this woman was raising her kid without any physical affection, and how we’re…

This! You have to start somewhere. I suppose I could change my name to my mother’s birth name, but that was her father’s name. So, then I could go to my grandmother’s name, but that was her father’s name, etc. It’s patronyms all the way down.

In order to maintain my sanity, I decided to believe that guy was being sarcastic, or just trolling the interviewer, because I really don’t want to live in a world where he was serious.

This is so cool. I’m a fellow fatty considering getting my first tatoo (based on a design from Bitch Planet), and this whole thread it inspiring me to get off my butt and actually do it.

Between some truly terrible interactions at work today and all the crap in the news recently, I was about ready to give up on the world. Now I’m bit less hopeless.

Wow, that is impressively stupid. I thought that I had won the “stupid interactions with vegans” lottery when a woman moved in across the hall from me in an old apartment, and came banging on the door the next day demanding that I stop cooking meat when she’s at home, because she could smell it and it offended her…

Yeah, the whole thing just doesn’t hold water. I only know one person who’s had an abortion and cared what happened to the fetus. It was one of those horribly tragic cases of a very much wanted pregnancy where they found a birth defect incompatable with life. She was thrilled that she could donate the fetal tissue to…

I don’t know if it’s a common thing elsewhere in the states, but that sounds a great deal like a pudggie pie iron. They’re fairly common in the midwest, especially at summer camps. It’s essentially a cast-iron clamshell the size and shape of a slice of bread that’s on long handles. You put bread and some kind of…

He wasn’t necessarily terrible, he actually did a reasonable job in the role. The character just simultaneously creeped me out and bored me. I’m sick to death of shows using misogynistic violence as a way to be “edgy”. The Fall did a better job than most of acknowledging just how fucked up our willingness to watch…

It is brilliant. By about 3 eps in, I was fast forwarding through Dornan(?)‘s scenes in order to get to her storyline faster.

I’m glad I was wrong!

Can you just tell them that you’re having a ‘minor procedure’ and you don’t want to go into further detail?

You might want to check with them first that they will accept food donated by outsiders. I can imagine that they may have a rule against it for security reasons (some anti-choice asshole either adulterating the food, or putting some kind of explosives or camera or some other bullshit in the container with the food).

It was a wonderful piece. I’m from a Canadian family, and lived in Ontario for much of my young adulthood, so I tend to employ “eh” the way that a lot of other young women employ uptalk. It gets me a lot of crap for sounding stereotypically Canadian, but it has the advantage of not having all of gendered/generational…

Fresh Air did a piece on vocal fry and other vocal characteristics that women get disporportionally criticized for the other day. As part of it, they included an auto reply that gets sent out to people writing in to some particular podcast (I think it was 99% invisible) to complain about the female presenters’ voices.…

The only thing that I can come up with is that she was trying to ask if it was on sliced bread, rather than on a roll or something.

Anyone want to take bets on the likelihood that all of these people are “pro life”? It’s all part and parcel of the view that women aren’t really “people” who get full control of their own bodies. I’m going to go and hide in a dark cave somewhere until the world stops being so awful.