Mallory came to the gym with me yesterday and she BROUGHT IT. She brought it HARD. She did not throw up! She did not cry. She just kept grimly working it and periodically called my trainer “sir,” which means she was on the edge of losing her true self. We will return to the gym on Thursday.
I really want you to read this. Don’t overlook it bc it was written by a male contributor.
Kate Harding on Ray Rice and Janay Palmer.
less wow WHERE IS THE PUNCHING
BABY GRUNGE NICK PAVICH:
How I started a Wikipedia hoax:
I wrote that Amelia Bedelia edit in 2009, with my best friend Evan during our sophomore year of college. As he recalled when I called him later that evening, “we were stoned out of our minds” and had just come from the McDonald’s drive-thru to get chicken selects when we decided to edit Wikipedia pages for various semi-obscure children’s book authors. (I think we also did one for R.L. Stine, but Evan says no.)
All the lonely people: what we actually know about them.
Jessica Wakeman on sometimes wishing she hadn’t written so much about sex:
Between my emails, my Twitter @ replies, and my Facebook’s Other folder, every day something makes me go “Ugh ick ugh ick.” The vast majority of these communications are men asking me if I will have Skype- or GChat-sex with them or send them sexy pictures of myself. That’s totally weird, because I’ve never posted nude or even partially-nude pics online. The assumption seems to be that because I’ve written about sex, I will email a stranger a picture of my tits. (I don’t care if other women would want to do that, but it’s not for me.) Occasionally, a stranger will write an unintentionally funny email describing in specific detail what his penis looks like and its supposed sexual prowess. Why, just last Wednesday, a gentleman offered to send me a picture of his own dick. “Just to see what you think of it,” he wrote. These emails are wholly unwanted and harassment for sure. In at least one instance, I had to take steps to have the man who was repeatedly emailing me creepy missives firmly reprimanded.
Deleted comment of the day:
Food is for white liberals what sex is for the religious right.
