Um, the victims of sexual assault and the poor send their great thanks to you for regaining my previously misdirected pity. FFS

This looks like an H&M ad directed by Ingmar Bergman. And I mean that in the best possible way.

I think one comes from the other.  Being more empowered and having a better understanding of modern social dynamics makes them realize earlier how objectified they’ve always been.  

I also wonder if the more empowered you are, the more aware you are of sexist bullshit.

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I love everything about Emma Thompson, but one of my favourite things is that when she was in Brideshead Revisited with Hayley Atwell, and the producers told Atwell to lose weight, Thompson went to them and said that if they ever brought it up again she'd quit.

Fuck you. I’m a sex worker and I can assure you it is 100% consensual. I love my job and it pays better than being used by the non-profit world for the years of my “vanilla” career. This type of stupid, all or nothing thinking is one reason the world sucks so much. People like you hurt sex workers with your bullshit wo…

Yeah, I really feel like any criticism about what she said is REALLY reaching. Why does it have to always be “well, that’s nice and all but she could said/she could have focused on/she could also have mentioned...” If someone thinks something else should be mentioned, then use this as an opportunity to bring it up,…

Workers in the business and their advocacy groups have stated that “sex work” and “sex worker” are the preferred terms for describing the industry and those working in it. I think that’s all we need to know about whether we should continue to use terms like “prostitute”. Using the term “sex work” focused on the fact…

I agree. I find it odd to get upset with Lily Allen for not proclaiming she was seeking sexual fulfillment or pleasure. It sounds like she was going through a dark time and it was more of an emotional outlet. Which many people do and desperately crave human connection. And an anonymous human connection. If that’s her…

Wouldn’t it be nice to see a woman really claiming her pursuit of pleasure?

I don’t know if calling her time with sex workers a “dark time” that she doesn’t do anymore - I don’t know if that description disparages sex work necessarily. Saying you were having a dark time and seeing a therapist doesn’t disparage therapy work. Sexual healing is still healing. If people want to see a sex worker…

I think I spent too long thinking that if more movies featuring POC did well, then Hollywood would make more of those movies. I don’t think that’s true anymore. The racism is pernicious out there. I always thought it was a money game, but I’m not sure it is. I know a lot of Hollywood is incredibly liberal, but clearly …

Listen, I made it work, honey.

I feel like health issues may be precisely why she’s doing a residency? It’s certainly easier to stay put and do the same show every other night (maybe only a few nights a week?) than a full-blown tour, and splitting the time between the pop shows and the piano shows probably helps a great deal too.

Also having just…

Businesses that rely on seasonal workers are struggling because of Trump’s immigration restrictions.

Eat it standing in front of the open fridge door.

As stated in the article, it’s the difference between punching up and punching down. The context is different when these statement are made white to black than it is when they’re made black to white. One of those two groups suffered centuries of oppression up to and including bondage, dehumanization, rape, murder, and…

When you see an adult child cutting a parent out of their lives, it often says so much about the toxicity level of the parent. It’s awful and hard to cut out a toxic parent from your life, or even to set some solid boundaries! In this case, Thomas Markle is backing up any suspected parental toxicity with regular proof…