I’m sure she’s a very impressive person in many ways, but giving a boatload of money to an already extremely wealthy and elitist university doesn’t impress me as an act of philanthropy.

Who knew that Lenny Kravitz, purported coolest man in America, is such a cornball?

I don’t know. If the standard is that the person was AFAB, then trans men should be allowed to submit too. But I think a prize explicitly labeled “Women’s Prize” saying they accept submissions from trans men would come across as transphobic, as if someone’s chromosomes mattered more for whether they count as a “woman”…

Why is Emezi’s publisher submitting their work for a women’s prize when they don’t identify as a woman?

The ten highest paid actresses last year were all over 30 except for Margot Robbie, who was 29. Four of the ten were over 40, and two were over 50. Their average age was 42. I think it’s a bit of an exaggeration to say that society requires women to be young to be relevant.

It’s a scripted film.

So, just to be clear: Adele wearing bantu knots is cultural appropriation, but this lady becoming the face of yoga is not? I don’t understand the rules any more.

I haven’t seen the entire film, but I have seen some of the clips which people are complaining about. And, honestly, they made me really uncomfortable. It doesn’t take much projection to see the young girls in those clips as sexualized. They are overtly sexualized -- that’s the point. Now, I understand that the…

You say we shouldn’t consider Markey as progressive as Warren because of his past positions. But Warren was literally a Republican in the past. If we’re going by this “You can’t live down your past” rule, then she’s way less progressive than Markey, right?

“Rich man writes an article that I almost entirely agree with, but I’m still pissed about the article because it was written by a rich man.”

Win at what, though? The band is not trying to get her to stop using the name. The lawsuit is meant to establish that they have the trademark and therefore the right to use the name as well. So for them to lose, the court would have to decide that they don’t have the right to use the name. There may be precedent…

No, the article explains that they are going to court to defend their retention of the trademark. They applied for the trademark back in 2010. Their statement says this:

I don’t get this “power imbalance” thing. That term is used so broadly these days that it seems to have lost all meaning. Where’s the power imbalance here? He wasn’t their boss, he couldn’t control what happened to their lives in any way. They didn’t even work in the same industry. A lot of people seem to be claiming…

Huh? People get on a soapbox about “bimbo” all the time (rightfully so). There are tons of articles in major media about how “bimbo” is sexist.

The state killing one less person — no matter how heinous that person may be — is a good thing in my book.

The optics of white people lecturing black people about racial sensitivity are pretty bad too, though.

This is dumb. Saying the n-word while repeating rap lyrics is stupid and tonedeaf, sure, but treating it as a moral lapse that requires some huge display of public contrition... that’s just sanctimonious bullshit.

This data is not that informative unless we also segregate by employment status of the partner, which the survey does not do. It tells us that women with a full time job, a partner and children spend much more time on average on housework than men in a similar situation. But it is possible (and I think likely) that…

I mean, at least he had a skill. She’s famous for being a reality TV villain. Second rate quarterback was punching above her weight.

Maybe my reading comprehension is awful, but I don’t see anything in that quote about asking for consent. It just says that Gaga told him she sexualizes her acting partners, he apparently didn’t know what that meant, and then she kicked him, got on him and started riding him. He certainly makes it sounds like the…