My wedding was featured on Offbeat Bride. I had been a member of their forum (it was really helpful!), and they featured my photobooth backdrop on the blog, so I figured the wedding itself had a good chance of making it on the main blog. The questions were more free answer than they were structured, and there was just…

Same here. It’s appalling that we can’t have an opinion on what constitutes rape, and how much agency some women actually have vs how much they’re being told to rely on an external locus of control without being called out as defending rapists or being rape apologists.

There is a pending Title IX complaint Stephen Eisenman, a fellow faculty member Kipnis brought as her “support person” to meeting with the Title IX investigators. Eisenman is the President of the Faculty Senate and openly criticized the secretive and labyrinthine Title IX process. Students are now asking for Eisenman…

So happy to read this! I honestly loved her first essay, and I can’t wait to read the most recent one (behind the chronicle’s pay wall right now). There are so few feminists out there arguing that young women should be empowered to make mistakes without seeing them as trauma, and I think Kipnis was incredibly…

It would have been refreshing but I think we as the audience needed to get entirely creeped out by those little killer children. She was the vehicle for that. SERIOUSLY THAT KID DID NOT HAVE EYES BUT WAS STARING INTO HER SOUL.

Good outcome, but the “prosecution” shouldn’t have taken place. As a result of this process, the temperature has been chilled everywhere. If you know an academic with Twitter or Facebook, you know they are thinking thrice before posting anything mildly upsetting.

I was just sad because my initial thought was, “Oh my god we get a new, really badass and capable woman on the show!” And then she died immediately. Sigh.

no no i get it, trust me, and i’m not disagreeing with you. i just think that if they were her children it might add another layer to it and i could forgive the plot line a little.

Even so, I wish it would’ve been a male character instead. Just sick to death of the trope of ovary feels being a female character’s downfall (as in the case of a warrior mom frozen at the sight of her undead child) or salvation (broken female character has babies at the end and it heals her soul). There are a…

i read (not sure if it’s true or not but...) that those were her children that were killed before...hence the shock...

I mean, I think it would be cool if it was because a character who said “They’re dead, fuck em’” earlier in the episode (regarding what her ancestors would’ve thought) caves before some dead people, fun bit of irony and all that—but it wasn’t that. She clearly could not handle the sight of the undead children because…

I was so goddamn disappointed that the badass Wildling chick who was cutting people down suddenly was like: “Oh noes! I can’t kill zombie kids! Whatever would my womb think!?”

Show of hands if you’re pissed that the badass Wildling lady caved because of womanly feelings for teh babies. Fucking seriously.

Birgitte Hjort Sørensen

after a one-week sabbatical from westeros, i have returned with my many thoughts:

if there’s one thing i’ve learned in watching game of thrones, if you tell your loved ones “i’ll be right back,” your ass is going to die, RIP, random wildling lady.

But theo james’s face is..

Pack yourself up and leave, you asshat. I’m not any less an American than you are, just because I would like our country to be a decent place to live.

I will join you in a glorious chorus of car-singing. We’ll start with the new and go backwards through the catalogue. They’ll make a show about it. We’ll be famous.