No one wins when we play the oppression games online.

I live in New York City and took a walk along much of the area where the march was held this morning. As much as I admire the women who are standing up for their beliefs, I was utterly disappointed to see the sheer amount of garbage that was left behind. In addition to the protest signs, there was also many empty…

Two thoughts: 1) I would have preferred a more subtle psychological thriller that leaves it you unsure whether she’s being haunted by ghosts versus her own guilt and 2) Why has there not been a Supernatural episode where Sam and Dean visit this house and travel back in time to meet their ancestor Sarah?

But then you can’t say it is Isabel Marant, which matters a lot to fashionable people, I guess?

Such good tips! My brothers are horribly difficult to shop for/wandering around craft fairs and local boutiques is and has been a time-wasting wreck in the past, so for them I figure out what I want and find it from a small business owner on Etsy. Shipping is a problem, carbon-footprint-wise, but it’s better than…

This poor artist; however, please don’t refer to Anthropologie as a “collective of people.” They are a large, multinational, anti-choice corporation. And no, they do not give a shit about things like living wages or being decent human beings, which is why although I love their clothes and homestuffs, I don’t shop…

This is so awful because they lowballed her and then stole her idea, so they clearly knew where the earrings were coming from.

I also enjoy his movies, but I have absolutely no confidence in his ability to make a movie that isn’t both ultra-violent and ultra-profane. And that’s not what I want in my Star Trek.

Right?

We’ve seen something like this before. It was called Anti-Christ by Lars von Trier with all the self-indulgence and passive aggressive mysogyny of either oversexed women or passive women.

It comes off as a promising short story written by a precocious youth still evolving in craft and emotional maturity.

“It’s such a tricky topic for me because I don’t ever want to minimize how much that happens to women all the fucking time,” he says. “They say one in four women will experience some kind of sexual assault in their life which is fucking insane and heartbreaking. So as painful and surreal and fucked up as my situation…

I feel like the lede here should be “Conor Oberst was falsely accused of rape, and OH HEY uses the opportunity when asked about it to be publicly compassionate toward women who’ve been assaulted.”

A male feminist walks into a bar

I think I’ve figured out the code: If you give a guy a boner, you’re “curvy.” If you don’t, you’re “fat.”

Meritocracy as received religion. I’m sure that if you cornered this guy, he’d tell that he sincerely believes that sexism, racism, homophobia, et al. are “bad.” But he’s unable to recognize that there are deep structural biases against women, minorities, and LGBTs because of his faith in what he sees as a perfect…

I was hoping they moved more like actual bugs, in which case, if I were a high powered lady boss, hell yeah I would like a shiny robotic beetle crawling on me to creep everyone out. Alas these look dumb and I am just a lowly freelancer/slob.

Thank you for explaining your thought process here! I love to know why people choose the words they do.

Let’s make sure all the articles are dumbed down enough so you, even though you’re smarter than 90% of readers (based on exactly nothing), don’t have to look things up.

I personally have a large vocabulary and know tons of words that no one else does and I still have never heard of it. Basically if I haven’t heard of the word there’s a good chance 90%+ of people reading this article have never heard of it