what I judge these photos against:

Same. I had period pain that was so severe that I genuinely considered suicide. Had pain so bad at school that I had to have two friends practically carry me to the nurse’s office, all while the (male) teacher acted as though I was faking. Also had a (male) teacher refuse to let me use the bathroom until I explained…

I’ve always thought being entombed in a glass coffee table would be nice. That way I can keep an eye on my husband to see how quickly he remarries and still stay in close contact with alcohol.

I bought a little 1930 date book a few years ago for like 5 bucks at a flea market. Turns out to be the diary of young women, Daisy, and all the goings on in her Midwestern city that year. I just dug it out. On this date she wrote "Doc met me after work and we went to The Lyric and saw Sue Gordon(?) in 'The Big…

Gaslighting or gas-lighting is a form of mental abuse in which information is twisted or spun, selectively omitted to favor the abuser, or false information is presented with the intent of making victims doubt their own memory, perception, and sanity.

I don’t get the joke.

I’M LAUGHING SO HARD

“The real life Heller claims he wasn’t such a shady manager.”

I work in congress and we literally had an active shooter drill this morning, so I couldn’t believe they were drilling us again mere hours later. It took me a while to realize it’s not a drill.

I have experience being in a relationship with an addict, so I’m probably not being objective when it comes to how much I loved this episode. I cannot believe it made me have kind-ish and You go, girl! feelings for Marnie.

The answer to your questions are:

Overwhelmingly, throughout Germany, the Flüchtlinge have been welcomed by the country’s citizens and processed by the understandably overwhelmed local authorities as quickly as possible. Even in small towns where space is contested already because small, housing has been found for everyone.

Same happens with me. I work at a technical college in engineering and the two women on staff always do the grunt work while the men get the praise. It’s the most frustrating thing. You always think, oh maybe this semester will be different, but it’s always the same old same old. Any woman in a male-dominated anything…

I saw the ART production. I wondered if maybe Jenna went forward with the pregnancy because the only meaningful relationship she’d had in her life was with her own mother. And maybe she thought that becoming a mother herself would restore that feeling of belonging to someone. She was just pissed that the father was…

No problem! It also changes the purposes of the ensemble to reveal much more of Jenna’s inner life—which is her happy, pie-creating place—so while her marriage isn’t working, there are other things in her life that are, you know? Full disclosure: I work on the show, so seeing the ideas evolve may give me a different…

I think it’s okay for a woman to not want an abortion even though she’s not happy about being pregnant.

I agree. Except vaccines are not a cause of autism.

If your response is that the NBA should not get involved in LGBT issues with the All-Star Game:

It's sooo good. I saw it at a screening with the director. By far my favorite movie of the year. It really is hilarious. Chloe is American in the movie, the director said no matter how good her accent was if she played British, no one would think it was good because she is known as an American. She's hardly in the…

I am SOO excited for this since Jane Austen juvenilia is deliciously mean and silly, but Love & Freindship is entirely different piece (about teen girls obsessed with novels of sensibility), which will bother only me and maybe 20 other people who will still see this in the theaters.