It’s the tiniest of details in this story but I really hate when people accused of crimes against women call it a “witch hunt”. I get that they’re using the metaphorical sense of “looking for something that isn’t there” but words have history and an actual witch hunt was a systematic undermining of women and their…

And you have to be able to pull it off, too. I have this everlasting problem — if you earn my respect, I will be loyal as hell. I’ll expect your respect in return and I will always trust that we’re working together even if we disagree on something. 

I one of the factors that’s really upsetting about the way he keeps repeating things like this (aside from the obvious) is that he’s trying to play to the same base that elected Trump, albeit kind of ineptly. I’m a leftist white lady who managed to get a good education and am usually only poor because of the jobs I…

I sleep-talk and I have nightmares so I say some frightening things to my boyfriend or any friend who lets me stay over. It’s always confusing sorting it out the next day. (E.g. “You woke me up at 3am insistent that we had to run!” and I’m just confused and looking for breakfast)

Ahhhhh!!! Ahhhh!!! I’m trying to be more articulate but that’s really all I’ve got.

My puppy may have ghost-sensing abilities, but he also thinks both strollers and bicycles are evil. I work at home and I’ve had a few “is it a ghost?!” moments and it turns out nope, neighbors on the sidewalk. Hopefully at some point he learns the difference between ghosts and bicycles.

I need a serious cheering up and I haven’t seen The Good Place and know nothing about it outside of just googling it now, so thanks for the tip. Hopefully Ted Danson is enough of a draw to get my Cheers-childhood boyfriend involved.

Talk to other guys and be a voice for us. That’s really powerful and a great way of making better things you’re not proud of.

It depends so much on factors that you can’t possibly know — how seriously violated did the person feel? What are her personal preferences for dealing with things? The more I think about my own instances, I don’t think an apology that comes much later helps that much. For the minor ones I’d be kind of disturbed…

I wasn’t raised religious but I did get indoctrinated with the idea that being sexy meant you wouldn’t get as much intellectual respect. It took me a long time to learn that I can dress my body the way I want, whether that’s something very businessy or frumpy or revealing. Part of that was meeting a lot of great male…

From the various accounts from employees (both male and female) it sounds like there was a fair amount of denial and also everyone was in fear of losing their livelihoods. It’s not a very good moral reaction, but I think it’s important to recognize that Weinstein himself was the cause of terrorizing everyone around…

I think it’s important to acknowledge the physical differences though. I don’t think most men who have a woman touching them and staring at them are actually fearful for their safety. I might be wrong about this! But when someone who weighs 100 lbs more than me is insisting on being in my personal space, there is an…

I get most of my exercise from walking and biking to and from places. And I move a lot and have a terrible sense of direction so I’m on Google Maps pretty much anytime I’ve left my apartment. I guess maybe it feels judgy if you normally drive everywhere but this feature would have been welcome for my ego. (I can eat…

I’m down with both of those things but a PSA: always be sure your sage is fully extinguished, because an acquaintance burnt down half of her new house when she smudged it after moving in (the sage must have still had some heat to it). She only got out in time because her neighbor is an insomniac and came pounding on…

Spooked by Snap Judgment! And all of the past year’s Halloween episodes by Snap Judgment.

I found this discussion on addiction vs compulsive behavior to be pretty on point:

There was that quote in Politico:

There’s a good piece in the Atlantic that touches on this.

I think it all hinges though on whether you think it’s fair that because one’s been convicted of a crime (and who knows what crime, could be severe or could be fairly banal) getting paid $1/hour for intensive labor is not near-slavery. If a person is already doing the time, do we require their labor as well as…

Exactly what I came here to say. Will there be a giant check? A balloon fall? A grateful representative of Las Vegas spluttering and shaking hands and telling Trump how amazing he is?