Okay, let’s talk about Ronan Farrow being Frank Sinatra’s son, and about how Dylan Farrow is now talking openly about what she remembers of Woody Allen, because we’re all having such a good time with the first part, and the second part is a PRETTY BIG DEAL too.
There is a new Hyperbole and a Half up.
The Calgary Herald correctly uses “cis,” writes about trans* pregnancy stuff without being stupid.
In other good news, Gloria Steinem revisits her 1977 essay on trans* issues:
So now I want to be unequivocal in my words: I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make. And what I wrote decades ago does not reflect what we know today as we move away from only the binary boxes of “masculine” or “feminine” and begin to live along the full human continuum of identity and expression.
Nancy Mitford, forever relevant.
This Hairpin interview is incredible.
Looking for Dave Chappelle.
You haven’t read Macbeth until you’ve read it in Proto-Indo-European.
Anne Helen Petersen calls Masters of Sex a soda graveyard, which makes sense when you read it. Are you guys watching it? I love Lizzy Caplan and Michael Sheen, so I was excited but now I’m bummed out, because AHP is usually right. Let’s all take a minute to agree that the title is terrible.
The guy who ran Silk Road has been busted, because the dream of buying drugs online, like the dream of Rome, is fleeting and filled with waving wheat fields.
NBC will rue the goddamn day they let FOX steal John Mulaney.
