EJ Graff asks: what’s next for the gay rights movement? Spoiler: “breaking the nation out of its gender straitjacket.”
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I made this for dinner last night (a comical marital misunderstanding having left boneless, SKINLESS chicken breasts in my fridge, the horror) with sauteed spinach/garlic/red pepper flakes on the side, and it was incredible and then for breakfast I served the leftover sauce over fried eggs. WHAT.
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Bertolli is proud to make the pasta preferred by most same-sex historical literary couples.
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The strange beauty of cults.
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Why the death penalty is a terrible way to deal with sex crimes in India.
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The SNL Girls parody is as good as you heard.
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“On the morning my mother called me out of sleep, I had been holding my breath. Being Big Sister is a lifetime of holding your breath for terrible phone calls. When she was a toddler–even back then, so clearly and devastatingly bright and charming and daring–I thought the calls would only be about what my sister did to the world. As my sister got older, my fears evolved into how the world would tend to her.”
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“THE VCE exam body has apologised and promised no students will be disadvantaged after a doctored image depicting a giant robot assisting socialist revolutionaries in 1917 was accidentally used in a history exam.”
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The ocean is fucked.
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E. Jean Carroll’s 1992 Esquire piece on NBA groupies is online via Deadspin:
She accelerates and the percussion of the motor fills the front seat. “First of all. I will not go to sleep without an orgasm. No. Not with any man I’ve been with. And I don’t fake orgasms.”
I am from the East Coast. I am surprised to hear women still have orgasms.
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Contestants for the international titles of LeatherBoy and LeatherSir (link NSFW, but less NSFW than you might think) are no longer required to be cis-men, as long as they are still gay dudes who look good in leather.
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Image via Bon Appetit. Mine didn’t look that good.
Tags: cults, eggs, feminism, link roundup, news, robots, tgim, trans* issues
Oh that Bertolli image makes more sense when you don’t confuse Bertolli & Barilla.
Also that Big Sister story made me cry.
like a baby. Like a very sad baby.
I cried, too. A lot.
One of my friends sat that exam with the robot photoshopped into the cartoon. She was very confused. It also made it very obvious that the authority that sets the exam just picks the first result of google images, because that was what came up when you googled the name of the cartoon.
I like that the author was able to correctly identify what kind of giant robot it was.
Anyway, while the Red Army may not have had BattleTech Marauders, they did have these:
I’m so excited to read about cults instead of working!
also, re: anti-gay pasta: the *real* issue here is who is buying this pasta in the first place. a box of store brand thin spaghetti is like, 80 cents.
I am always astounded when I see people at the store buying name brand food. I mean, I buy name brand deodorant and toilet paper and such…. But pasta?
About twice a year I buy fancy name-brand pasta. Sure, the store brand is equally delicious, but it never comes in wagon wheel shapes.
touche
Welllll….. pasta from a metal press (SOME fancy pasta) and pasta from a plastic press is very different. And that’s all I’ll say about that.
At my main grocery store, Barilla has been “on sale” for as cheap (or occasionally cheaper) as the generic for most of the past 2 years. So, this actually will require a choice for me. An easy choice, but still, a choice.
That basketball piece is fascinating, but the writer seems like such a square! Right after the part you quoted is this line: '"Good heavens!" I say.'
Seriously, it's gold: "And for a moment the young ladies fall into a sort of gentle reverie, as each bethinks herself of her own favorite butt."
Omg "do women even have orgasms anymore".
Man! Another brand that I like and now can’t buy! Keep it up corporations! At this rate I’m going to be starving and unclothed because I have to boycott you all!
There is disagreement over the death penalty even in the U.S., so it’s no surprise there’s a similar divide brewing in India given the controversial nature of the issue.