Oh, apparently DuPont knew that the C8 in Teflon was hella bad and didn’t care. My dad actually worked at a DuPont factory for a long time (people in my hometown either worked for DuPont or the prisons), but making nylon instead of pans, and does not have cancer as of press time:
Concerns about the safety of Teflon, C8, and other long-chain perfluorinated chemicals first came to wide public attention more than a decade ago, but the story of DuPont’s long involvement with C8 has never been fully told. Over the past 15 years, as lawyers have been waging an epic legal battle — culminating as the first of approximately 3,500 personal injury claims comes to trial in September — a long trail of documents has emerged that casts new light on C8, DuPont, and the fitful attempts of the Environmental Protection Agency to deal with a threat to public health.
This story is based on many of those documents, which until they were entered into evidence for these trials had been hidden away in DuPont’s files. Among them are write-ups of experiments on rats, dogs, and rabbits showing that C8 was associated with a wide range of health problems that sometimes killed the lab animals. Many thousands of pages of expert testimony and depositions have been prepared by attorneys for the plaintiffs. And through the process of legal discovery they have uncovered hundreds of internal communications revealing that DuPont employees for many years suspected that C8 was harmful and yet continued to use it, putting the company’s workers and the people who lived near its plants at risk.
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I think it’s fantastic that the LA Times is looking back on how they could have done a better job covering the Watts riots:
Forty-five years later, I looked back on how they told Los Angeles’ most tumultuous story of that era, and my first reaction was, “How could this coverage have won a Pulitzer Prize?”
I’m not suggesting the work was unworthy. I read the stories with admiration for the reporters’ newswriting skill and for the courage of many white reporters who headed into the conflict zone.
But as the coverage continued day after day, it became apparent how unprepared these journalists were to probe the complex social currents that ignited and fueled the upheaval.
Over the 11 days of riot coverage and initial follow-up, The Times’ perspective evolved from objectivity to alarm to befuddlement as reporters struggled to comprehend a threat to their city from the sort of racial conflict that until then had largely been limited to America’s southern and northeastern states.
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The state of black women and their families in the rural South:
Key findings include:
In the rural South, more than 1 in 4 children and nearly as many women live in poverty; the poverty rate is more than double for African-Americans and Latinos compared to their white counterparts.
In rural Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, white women were four times more likely to be employed and Black women earned nearly one-third less than white women.
In Clay County, Georgia, 36 percent of Black women had less than a high school diploma compared to 8 percent of white women.
Nearly 80 percent of the 4.8 million uninsured U.S. adults who fall into the coverage gap that would be alleviated by Medicaid expansion live in the South.
In Georgia, the teen pregnancy rate in rural counties was more than double the state rate, and the teen birth rate was at least 20 percent higher.
Of the 19 million Americans without broadband Internet access, 14.5 million live in rural counties.
In 2012, of the $4.8 billion philanthropic investments allocated to the South, just 5.4 percent went to programs focused on women and girls and less than 1 percent to programs focused on Black women and girls.
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Here is a picture of my friend Carrie’s puppy yawning:
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The Hairpin on the only X-Files conspiracy theory that truly matters:
Actually, the only pseudoscientific conspiracy theory I’m interested in propagating is my longtime conviction that Mulder and Scully started fucking in the very first episode of The X-Files. I have fought about this with so many fellow nerds that I’ve basically adopted a “Don’t @ Me” policy in real life about it, like just accept and respect my beliefs, and I’ll do the same with yours. But. Ok. You know in the pilot episode when Scully thinks she’s been bitten by whatever thing they’re in the middle of nowhere investigating? I could look this up but I’m kind of enjoying doing this by memory. ANYWAY, she thinks she’s been bitten, and she knocks on Mulder’s door, and she’s wearing JUST A TRENCH COAT OVER HER BRA AND UNDERWEAR, and she SHOWS HIM JUST HER SHOULDER, and he TOUCHES THE BITE and SMILES and says “IT’S JUST A MOSQUITO BITE”? Like. I’m wet just remembering this. Are you telling me that they DIDN’T immediately have “wow I’m not going to die and I’m so relieved” sex right then and there? And that they weren’t kind of casually fucking every so often, which accounts for Scully’s gentle exasperation in the face of Mulder’s endearing but annoying paranoia? She just constantly has this expression of, like, “Ugh you’re annoying the shit out of me right now but that D was so good last night that I’m just going to shake my head and let it go.” Which is an expression I know well.
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All of today’s deleted comments are from one very determined gentleman by the name of “Jeff,” and some of them were too lengthy to be screencapped in full, so I apologize to him for occasionally excising a paragraph or two:
Tags: feminism, link roundup, the internet
IM SO ON BOARD WITH THAT XFILES THEORY
I mean that’s def what I would have been doing in her place
I’m rewatching the series again, and yes.
Yes, this is exactly what happens.
RIGHT? This is what I needed in my life, I just didn’t know it until now.
Doesn’t… doesn’t everyone assume that’s what happened? HAVE MY YEARS OF FANFICTION CONSUMPTION BEEN A LIE?
That’s def what I assumed, too. My years of fanfic production and yours of consumption were IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH, an x-philes’ highest calling.
Yeah I’ve only seen like, the first five episodes, so I just assumed this is where everyone started pairing Sculder/Mully? Bc it’s very blatant????
I’ve been putting off re-watching the series (I haven’t watched since it originally aired except for a few eps with a college roommate) but this might be the thing that makes me go back.
If you give a Randian a joke post, they’re going to want a mug of shut-the-fuck-up.
Thank heaven for timestamps. It’s wonderful to know Jeff spent an hour and a half gradually getting angrier about Ayn Rand being misrepresented with a humorous version of a children’s book, finally ending with the sublimely petulant “you have my contempt.”
I am actually so happy imagining that Jeff is just getting increasingly angry every time he submits the same comment and it doesn’t appear, just banging away on his keyboard like an angry whiny baby. Does he think that something went wrong? That there are a three or four different moderators and maybe THIS time it will get through? It’s the same comment, Jeff, what do you think is happening here?
The hour and a half kills me. And his comments get shorter and shorter, as though he’s sitting there thinking, “my comment didn’t go through because it was too long,” excising more and more until he sends a single link…. and then it hits him, and he leaves his bratty, incoherent final missive. An afternoon well spent, Jeff!
It’s like watching a student try to “revise” an essay by moving the paragraphs around and changing the spacing.
bahahahaha, exactly.
I hope Mallory keeps all the contempt she has collected from deleted Randian commenters and angsty bros somewhere safe where she can look at it and glow gently with pride.
I think there may be some sort of renewable resource opportunity here? Like, those prototype keyboards that turn keystrokes into electricity? So, for example, the people commenting on Toast pieces shouldn’t just benefit engagement and time-on-site metrics resulting in better ad revenue for our Empresses. ALSO, the energy produced by our keystrokes should generate electricity that directly powers the servers that house The Toast Dot Net.
I realize this is not practical in any way, shape, or form, but the idea of using the ire of angry men and the labor of love of some awesome women, nonbinary folks, and the handful of worthy men seems very correct on some sort of deep emotional level, which is the only thing that matters to me at the moment.
{edits follow}
(if it can’t power the servers, it could at least power a lamp on Mallory’s desk?)
(It actually might be plausible to code something so that a lamp on Mallory’s desk glows brighter at times when more comments are being submitted, or more total pageviews. It just wouldn’t be POWERED by them, which would make me sad.)
(what am I talking about, “sad”, if I had a successful website I would TOTALLY pay one of my smarter-at-coding friends to do that sort of thing for me regardless of how it was powered, as a visual display of my success)
Someone several months ago drew up a schematic for perpetually powering the toast on male tears. I wish I could remember who it was or what post it came up on- knowing we were talking about male tears doesn’t really narrow it down…
it was meeeeee http://the-toast.net/2015/05/13/my-favourite-dele…
I keep intending to like, actually redraw it nicely & neatly (since we keep talking about Toast tote bags or whatevs) but…you know how those intentions go.
(ahahaha now I am rereading the comments on the deleted posts and, y’all are truly the best. I was crying laughing at those poor white boys and y’all’s commentary.)
I should have known. That white dude book list is truly the gift that keeps on giving.
I never caught this the first time around, so thanks for reposting. It’s a thing of beauty.
I remember this. I too cannot imagine how to re-find this thing. Like, I thought it was maybe on the deleted comments on the white men book list post post, but there are so many comments there that i cannot find it, if it is there……
Maybe that’s what makes her hair so shiny?
“But Mallory treasured up all of these things and pondered them in her heart.”
I like the “You’ve done a poor job misrepresenting her views” opening salvo. You’re replying because you want to do a better job misrepresenting her views?
It’s just that Nicole may have WANTED to help Jeff, but unfortunately he was unworthy of help and she was unable to help him.
A true disciple of Ayn Rand in that he just wrote forever about a point he already made clearly enough in his first paragraph and I was too bored to read past the second.
It’s the comment equivalent of when a young child is trying to tell a story and the only tool in their storytelling toolbox for bridging concepts together is saying, “And another thing!”
Plus, he appears to be an admirably swift typist to have produced so much text in that short period of time.
I hope, for his sake, that he was cutting and pasting from the file he has saved on his hard drive for just such occasions.
Call the police – that set of deleted comments looks suspiciously like a manifesto, and people with manifestos are liable to go off at any moment.
But how do you really feel about Ayn Rand, Jeff?
It does seem a bit unclear. Maybe he could write 75 more paragraphs!
I still don’t really understand Rand’s views enough to enjoy a gentle mocking of them. I hope Jeff can clarify.
(God, I love the mental image of deleted commenters bashing themselves against our editors’ windowpanes like so many moths.)
Worst of all, I still have no idea whether or not I should give this mouse over here a cookie. His failure to directly address this issue in a comprehensible way is clearly the sign of an sloppy mind.
I do know that I once gave my dog a piece of chicken jerky, and now whenever he hears me open a plastic bag, he thinks it’s time for treats, but I think it’s going to take more than objectivism to get me out of this mess.
I’m remarkably good at training other people’s dogs to expect a biscuit after a walk.
MORE OF CARRIE’S PUPPY PLEASE
All I want is for The Toast to become a blog solely dedicated to that puppy.
Puppy!
Well, Jeff, if Mallory had a made a poor attempt at misrepresenting Ayn Rand’s views, then doesn’t it follow that she’d made a decent attempt at representing them?
QED MOTHERFUCKER GET OUT
haha I came in here to post the exact same thing. OWNED, JEFF
You beat me to it!
THANK YOU
That puppy is going places. A strong contender for best puppy.
“You have my contempt.” Thanks, Jeff, I was running low on contempt today!
Oh, I’m sorry, Jeff – did you want that contempt back? Here you go.
Pffft, like there’s anything special about earning the contempt of an Objectivist. What, did you acknowledge the needs of others? Fail to ruthlessly strangle the parasites that are holding you back from utter domination? Did you smile at a baby or something?
Hold the door open for an elderly person?
That line actually made me laugh out loud. BRAVO, SIR. And it’s just so ludicrous to see his ultra-serious tirades next to the title of the post. He really should have looked again at the title of the post he was so furiously commenting on and thought about his life.
Also, A+ on everyone who says that Ayn Rand “illustrated” a moral point. I love this kind of subtle use of rhetoric, where it’s just one word but it lets you carefully imply that there’s a moral truth here that Rand is simply relating, rather than a moral value system that she is making up.
Rand didn’t illustrate that we have no moral responsibility to charity, she just says that we have no moral responsibility to charity. If you are even moderately familiar with the English language, you can say basically anything!
Get your shit together, Jeff.
Well played. A+ comment, would read again and have saved in my file of “responses to idiots on the internet.”
don’t you think it would be neat if she had illustrated her moral points, though, Highlights-magazine-Goofus-and-Gallant style?
Ohhh, man, I feel sure that there IS an Objectivist Goofus and Gallant around somewhere, though!!!
Okay, so, MrChouffe and I are almost done re-watching the first season of X-Files and THE MOSQUITO BITE SCENE. Mulder’s all “*sheepish reassuring grin* It’s a mosquito bite,” and Scully’s all “Are you SURE??” and Mulder comes back with “*more sheepish reassuring grin* Yeah” and she throws herself into his arms and he strokes her hair, and I turned to MrChouffe and said something to the effect of “And your life’s just changed COMPLETELY, MULDER” so what I’m saying is YES, that is definitely when they started doing it and there is nothing that can convince me otherwise.
I mean, it makes FAR more sense than the other theory of when they started doin’ it (season 7’s all things) and then were in some sort of relationship that was ambiguously signified and kept entirely off-screen.
PICK A LANE, CARTER.
OH MY GOD THAT PUPPY!!!!!!!!!!
Modified take on the X-Files theory: they do it, but then they have to take a break in season two when Scully is gone and Mulder is too distracted by banging Krycek to get back with her when she returns. Then eventually he has to let go of Krycek because, you know, evil, and after “Never Again” and “Milagro,” there’s lots of Angry Sex. Otherwise, it’s just occasional sweet, sweet love-making between friends.
Seriously though Krycek is so gay for Mulder. It’s not even subtext! It’s just text! He kissed Mulder at one point! And who was around during the infamous Red Speedo scene? Not Scully, that’s for sure.
I was not into Krycek at first, but now I get super excited whenever he shows up.
…Krycek being gay for Mulder makes those appearances even more exciting, yesss.
The angry sex after “Never Again” is basically the only thing I’ve ever wanted to see in life and haven’t. And I haven’t seen the Grand Canyon.
Second only to the peeved sex in Syzygy.
When I got to Jeff’s second comment I misread charity as chastity and he had my attention for a minute, but once I caught my mistake tl;dr.
YAY PUPPY! I need puppy in my life every day. Hopefully someday I will have a puppy of my own (well, more likely a senior beagle, but I will refer to said beagle as my puppy)…
dog of any age= puppy
I referred to some dog in public as a puppy and my friend said “that’s not a puppy, that’s clearly an older dog.” No, it is a puppy because all dogs I see are puppies.
I correct people when they call my dog a puppy only because she is very small and will stay that way forever, but usually only when they ask “how old is your puppy?” I let them know that she is 2 years old and just happens to be really really small (just over 4 lbs)
“No, it is a puppy because all dogs are puppies and also WHO HURT YOU TO MAKE YOU THIS WAY????”
Not only do I call all dogs puppies, including sweet elder statesdogs with graying muzzles, but I sometimes when extra-sleepy refer to very young humans as puppies, because I forget that there’s another word used for human young ‘uns.
Longstanding truth of my family- everyone is a Baby Bear.
Our grey muzzle 14yr old australian shepherd is absolutely convinced is still a puppy, except for when she decides she’s Too Old For This Nonsense, examples of which include having to deal with actual puppies or being called to heel when she doesn’t want to.
My life philosophy of viewing with deep suspicion anyone who claims to have “the truth” has yet again been validated. Except that Mulder/Scully theory: that’s the gospel.
[gasps loudly] LOOK AT THAT PUPPY. and that puppy belly!! Now I am yearning for the sweet pup we fostered last summer – he was so good at cuddles but so, so dumb.
and Jeff seems like he’d be a lot of fun at parties. Certainly he’d get everyone to drink more.
I have a similar theory to that X-Files one except it’s about Dan and Chuck on Gossip Girl.
Dan types all of the Gossip Girl posts in Chuck’s bed while Chuck is sleeping.
And they solely dress in these sports onesies
decent OTP, considering they’re both the worst
The real issue is ethics in Ayn Rand jokes?
#notallmice?
Apparently there’s a new Ayn Rand book and it’s pretty bad, but it does include the heroine saying:
“I kill the things men live for. But they come to see me, because I make them see that they want those things killed.”
Some of the comments on that article are SPECTACULAR.
William P. McMillen Delmar, New York 1 day ago
What is one to make that this review is not credited to anyone. Obviously, this is not Ayn Rand’s best work, but the criticism of everything Randian is without merit. Most of it stems from leftist view of Capitalism in the mistaken belief that the excesses of big business, its misrepresentations, its frauds in any way resembles the capitalism of Adam Smith and much less Ayn Rand. Rand’s heroes are business people, traders who exchange value for value. Her villains are those that use their influence with government to pass laws and enact regulations that hinder competition and even worse, fail to enforce the common laws against fraud, usury, and deceitful business practices.
vs.
pjc Cleveland 1 day ago
Rand is insufferable. And please, she understands Nietzsche the same way college freshmen looking for a way to outrage the bourgeoisie do.
I would find reading even a scathing review like this depressing, because the fact is, she has a huge audience — for some, this kind of hack megalomania is the peak of philosophic truth-telling. Arrg.
My advice? Just read all of her protagonists using Divine’s voice. It’s like a natural cure. You realize Rand’s novels are just John Waters’ screenplays that ended up in the trashcan because they possessed zero sense of humor or self-parody.
that is good advice pjc, I will keep that in mind.
That last line is an A+ Rand burn, on par with the classic LotR Rand burn, will re-use.
I feel that is just aching for some kind of Misandrist Noir plot. I assume her skin is perfect because she bathes in men’s tears, too.
“You have my contempt.”
“And my sword! With which you can cut away the societal bonds that prevent you from achieving your full potential as a businesshobbit with products to offer the world.”
“And my axe! You may use it to cut down all of the trees in Fangorn forest, so that they may be used to build mills, houses, and strip malls throughout the Shire.”
Ayn Rand’s The Council of Elrond
(I mean, let’s face it, you know Ayn Rand read tLotR and idendified Saruman as the tragic protagonist)
I don’t know what it is about the word “businesshobbit” but it cracks me up every time.
!!! I just realized I got that from you!
“I’m a legitimate businesshalfling!”
I am not good at business or LOTR, but I suddenly want a career advice column by businesshobbit.
I think the response to most things would involve therapeutic pipe-smoking.
Pipeweed is only legal in a few states so far.
Perhaps I should save it for the open thread tomorrow, but it ’tis a link soooo: http://www.mashupamericans.com/issues/guilt-we-fe… I just came across this website through another article and I am OBSESSED. Language has always been my secret shame, because I don’t speak Spanish as well or as often as I should, but it turns out that I am not alone and that feels wonderful. Really though, I just wanted to share this article because someone *spoiler* emailed their mom by accident with their secret confession. I basically died laughing.
OMG, thank you. My Spanish is my (increasingly not-so-secret) shame also. It is such a relief hearing other people’s stories–how have I never heard of Mash-up Americans?
I just heard of it for the first time yesterday! And now I’m on the mailing list and I have so many article tabs open that I may well crash my computer AND I cannot decided which one to read first, so I’m flipping between them like an overstimulated toddler at a candy store.
ETA: I found that being increasingly open about my feelings around speaking Spanish, which are complicated, has radically improved my ability to just give it a whirl sometimes, with family and really close friends. Also just being more accepting with myself about where my boundaries are. Like I will always enjoy listening to our local Spanish-language radio because the music is banging and it keeps me somewhat in the loop news-wise, but I may never feel confident enough to speak with strangers. Hey, that just might be my boundary and that’s OK. It doesn’t make me a failure. Um, well, at least that’s the goal attitude.
Bienvenida a la familia 😉 We’re happy to have you all at Mash-Up! My Spanish is better than my Korean and that is basically a disaster. xox.
Fun fact! One of the major causes of first generation English-speaking kids not becoming fluent in their parents’ language(s) is embarrassment and pressure from the older generation. As a kid, if you’re constantly reprimanded for speaking that language poorly, there’s little incentive to keep speaking through the mistakes that all kids make when learning language.
My Russian teacher used to say that learning language was all about being egotistical. You have to have enough confidence to keep talking, even if your language skills make you sound like an idiot, because it’s the only way to learn.*
*I feel the need to insert a disclaimer that this is pretty much the worst way to learn in most other fields.
Yes! I have a very vivid memory of something offhandedly cruel that my grandmother said about my speaking abilities when I was very young, maybe first or second grade. To this day, I do not know if she meant to be hurtful or was just making an observation, but it still stings.
I would really like my hypothetical children to be comfortable speaking at least one of the languages other than English that are spoken in our extended family, so I am doing my best to grapple with these feelings now before I pass them along. This list had some very helpful tips, for instance: http://www.mashupamericans.com/family/10-tips-for… I especially like the nickname one.
Relatedly, my university’s German club (club where students of German got together to practice speaking) always met at a bar, on the advice of the department chair. Because many students are too self-conscious while sober to practice talking auf Deutsch with strangers).
Hello! Thank you so much for sharing this piece! I’m Amy, co-founder and editorial director of The Mash-Up Americans. We’re so happy to have you reading our stories. WE ARE NOT ALONE. Also, it was me who accidentally emailed their mom. It somehow made me feel guiltier. xox
Hi, Amy! Estoy tan feliz de haber encontrado este sitio! Voy a compartirlo con todo el mundo. 😉 Every essay I’ve read so far has struck a major chord.
And sorry I laughed about your email mishap: it’s just totally exactly what would happen to me in the same situation. I’m a bit of a pobrecita that way, but oh my goodness it’s such a relief to admit how hard and complicated some of this stuff can be.
Con mucho gusto espero más artículos. 😀
This is kinda long, but it made me dream a lot of stories in my head. http://flightclub.jalopnik.com/this-is-the-only-a…
I just wanted to let you all know that a piece in NYMag about David Foster Wallace and the bros who love him* links to the “Books That Literally All White Men Own” post, so deleted comments should be extra fun tomorrow.
*while not a bro, I also love DFW – though not necessarily Infinite Jest, which I thought was fascinating but also very uneven with passages of genius but also long sections that took a lot of willpower to get through.
Ahhhhhhhh, my date a while back (and who I no longer see) mentioned there’d be a movie coming out in August he wanted to see and asked if I’d be interested … he never actually told me what movie it was, and he seemed a little embarrassed by it. He was a DFW fan. Now I know. The pieces have fallen in place.
[edge of deleted-comments viewing seat]
also, that is a perfect summary of Infinite Jest. I loved bits of it but the reading experience validated my growing suspicion that reading difficult things is not in fact better than reading easy/fun things.
I’ve always preferred his essay work – I think he did better when he wasn’t allowed to infinitely digress. His Federer essay is absolutely beautiful and is one of the big reasons I watch tennis to this day; DFW essentially talked me into appreciating the sport.
Yes, the only thing I’ve read by him was the essay on lobsters, and it was exquisite. It was in a creative nonfiction class and he’d only recently died, and I remember my professor (also a published author) talking about how angry his suicide made her. In a respectful way, I mean.
Check out the Federer piece. It’s not too long, and it’s amazing.
that piece is so amazing. This profile of a Rush Limbaugh-esque radio host is also really good, http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/…
Would recommend “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again” (about going on a vacation cruise) and “Ticket to the Fair” (about the Illinois State Fair).
I’d like to put in a good word for “Tense Present,” his essay on prescriptive and descriptive grammar, which a former roommate used to drag out at parties to start fights, and which I have since shared with many composition students. Reading that essay in its original setting (Harper’s) was the first time I’d ever seen someone more enamored of substantive footnotes than I am.
I was just about to comment that while I love the Federer essay, the Tense Present is the one I’ve gone back to so many times because it’s such a thoughtful look at how we use language and how much it defines us.
His essay about touring with John McCain “Up, Simba” is one of the best political essays ever.
The essay he wrote about his experience on and after 9/11 is also one of the greats. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/9-11-th…
For the record, I truly love DFW and I think Infinite Jest is a masterpiece and it moved me profoundly, so I would hate for the world to think that goofin on his white dude popularity is meant as a comment on him as a writer!
I loved Infinite Jest and constantly try not to think about what could have happened with The Pale King if it had been a complete work. The fragments that we got were often incredible and frequently baffling. So, par for the course as far as DFW is concerned.
I used to wonder why anyone wouldn’t love David Foster Wallace, until I realized I had him conflated with David Sedaris. Crumpet the Elf 4 ever!
I tried to read some essays by DFW but they were too precious, in that navel-gazy way that makes me want to slap a bro.
Today is my 30th birthday and I consider A Man Screaming Into The Void About All Of Us Misunderstanding Ayn Rand to be the greatest gift.
Happy Birthday!
Thank you!!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!! I turn 30 next year and can only hope for such wonders.
Happiest of Birthdays! 30 is a good one.
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday! I hope you spend the day doing fun things and giving no fucks about bad stuff!
Happy birthday! It’s mine as well (not my 30th).
*sings* If Jeff goes to hell, who carrrrrreeeeessss!
I encourage everyone to read friend-of-The-Toast Ella Risbridger’s (@missellabell) piece at The Pool about wearing lipstick on the chemo ward: https://www.the-pool.com/life/life-honestly/2015/…
(You might recognize her partner John, whose tweet was featured in yesterday’s round-up.)
I finally popped my Just Giving cherry for these guys. Over £60,000 is a lot of registered donors! She is a beautiful writer and I’m really praying for these guys (and I don’t even pray!)
DAD MAGAZINE!!!!
Is there an Amazon.ca link we can use? Does that work? I have no idea. Please let me know!
We do not have one! Purchase at will.
Purchased happily.
Thank you!
I can’t be the only one whose first reaction to the terrible courtroom sketch of Tom Brady was “this must be an X-File where the courtroom artist unintentionally draws the true souls of the people and can tell the guilty from the innocent!”
Guess I’m ready for that X-Files reboot is what I’m saying. And they were definitely banging the whole time.
Not sure if we’ve seen this already, but i think this woman who ran the London Marathon while free bleeding is pretty dope.
Before I clicked the link, I was thinking “wouldn’t that get sticky and chafe?” but then I saw the pics and now I just want to know the brand of her running tights because damn, if those things held up for 26 miles without becoming an unbearable mess from blood, they’ll stand up to my sweaty thighs no problem.
I saw it, good on her (Although I have questions as to why this has become a story now, and not months ago when it actually happened?)
But please can can we all agree not to make ‘freebleeding’ a thing? We have enough titles and random identifiers. Your personal choice to wear, or not to wear, sanitary products doesn’t need to be a mast to hoist your flag. We don’t need another ‘babywearing’
i mean, i promise I won’t make it a thing, but i thought it was a term that other people used?
I’ve only seen it in relation to this woman, but I can imagine it becoming a hashtag (it may already be one), I have pessimistic world view that says as soon as something becomes a lifestyle identifier its fucked.
I haven’t a problem with the activity (personally not for me, the only sport I do involves wearing white pants), but like babywearing, its a good idea, and a personal choice
The term, I believe, came out of a 4chan hoax (much like #endfathersday where they made up a bunch of fake twitter accounts and tried to push it like it’s a real thing). I think a lot of people are bothered by the term because it was essentialy created to mock women and feminism. Nothing wrong with having your period and choosing not to wear a pad/tampon/cup of course but the term has some pretty gross origins.
well, shit. I’m sorry. I had no idea.
Oh no worries! this particular hastag of theirs was more successful than some of the other ones (like the fathers day one which got debunked pretty quick) so news outlets picked it up not knowing where it came from. I just pointed it out because it does have some sketchy origins which is unfortunate since the actual act itself is a totally valid way to handle one’s period. The term sort of existed beforehand (at least I feel like I’d heard it before?) but it didn’t get big or become a ‘thing’ until 4chan started pushing it in a really shitty way and I think that’s why it bothers people when they are otherwise unopposed to the concept.
This link from the Daily Dot has more info and this one here from Death and Taxes mag has more on the assorted ‘feminist’ hoaxes 4chan has been going for lately and how they are often directing them specifically at women of color.
Moreover, if you choose to let yourvmenstrual blood flow freely, can you please please also choose to never sit down on public transportation or benches or offices chairs without SOMETHING under you to make sure the next person who sits doesn’t have to worry about the blood stain’s virulence and provenance?
My username is more than a little applicable, here. I heartily approve of this awesome chick and her free-range menses.
Good on her, but I can’t even imagine how badly that would chafe. I’d die.
Are you interested in All-Blacks players parodying the Men In Black music video for an Air New Zealand safety video? Of course you are!
This might be the appropriate place to relate the story about how I got the following onto the Found Magazine website:
Which I captioned “I feel like this fell out of an Ayn Rand novel or something.”
Sadly, the comments are now gone but literally the first one was a Randian bro telling me to stop being a judgnmental [sic] b*tch. I count it as one of my prouder moments.
I can’t link to any of the videos at work, but on Hank Green’s GamesWithHank channel (particularly the supercut of him playing The Stanley Parable), he tends to call every character in the game he’s playing Jeff. Sometimes they’re even ‘Jeffica’. This made Jeff’s comments six times funnier to read, because they came with a mental commentary of Hank going, “Shut up Jeff, I’m not going through the red door!”
More like “Shut up, Jeff, I don’t care about the safety of women at Vidcon.” *glares angrily in the direction of the Green brothers forever and ever*
Huh? I haven’t heard about this one….
This developed over several years, but the linkspam in this post is helpful at identifying some of the core issues that apparently still have not been fully resolved as of this year.
http://ceilidhann.booklikes.com/post/876720/admit…
Guess what Jeff I glossed over everyt single one of those comments because you’re boring.
I’d actually never read a word Ayn Rand wrote before today and apparently she wrote exactly like all the most hilarious parodies of her would have me believe. So thank you, Jeff, for confirming for me that I am 100% correct to laugh my ass off while reading the Ayn Rand series on this site. I suspected they were truly hilarious but hadn’t really been sure before, and now I know.
I like to think that Jeff spent so much time attempting to bother the Toast commentariat that he didn’t have time to go be useless and annoying in public, where he could actually do some harm.
Question for Jeff: What would it look like if, rather than a poor job, The Toast had done an excellent job misrepresenting Ayn Rand’s views?
I was just about to comment that while I love the Federer essay, the Tense Present is the one I've gone back to so many times because it's such a thoughtful look at how we use language and how much it defines us.
i was thought the great news it was, but i think i was read the same thing some other blog. most probably you are trying to write a review for the come to pass story. but the presentation is good.