1. Moral panic over Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey. Look, they're terrible. The relationships are abusive. The writing is awful. The ids it strokes are not your id. The fanbase is obsessive and weird. Fuck it, though. So are we. We're obsessive and weird. We care too much about problematic fandoms. We ship Snarry. We have the entire genre of ( Read more... )

So I made the mistake of watching Steven Levitt on the Daily Show last night. And then I wanted to scream. A lot.

Gee, thanks for letting us know that we're getting our silly "morals" get in the way of your pure, pure science. Sady Doyle and Echidne of the Snakes already have written some pretty good take-downs of their (really, incredibly shoddy ( Read more... )

Dear people who argue for the gold standard,

You know why gold has value? BECAUSE WE BELIEVE IT HAS VALUE.

You know why our money has value? BECAUSE WE BELIEVE IT HAS VALUE.

You know why I want to punch you in the face? BECAUSE YOU SOMEHOW BELIEVE THESE THINGS ARE INHERENTLY DIFFERENT.

no love,
me

I have been angry lately because I feel like have a lot of anger to make up for. I've been thinking about race in general and my race in particular, and how I've spent so much of my life identifying as white because it was easier, because it was expected of me, and I've been trying harder lately to say, "No. Fuck that shit. That's not who I am. ( Read more... )

You know what makes me want to become a man-hating lesbian? Comments like this, especially in response to thisYes, of course women getting drink specials are definitely the social and political equivalent to men controlling most governments and most businesses. Also, getting to go through doors first definitely makes up for the fact that most ( Read more... )

Dear people who like to say that market forces will prevent companies from being evil ( Read more... )

Dear the ass-wad form of conservatives,

What. the. Fuck? No, really, WTF? I mean, if they ever come up with an AIDS vaccine and you pull this sort of shit, I will be forced to rip out your liver and shove if down your throat. You actually believe that teaching kids abstinence is a better idea than giving them a vaccine that will continue to ( Read more... )