Doris Lessing, and not saying thank you:
For Lessing the problem was never the ideas behind feminism; it was the way the name pinned her in place, attached expectations of redemption and deliverance to her work that I think she was never quite sure it could actually bring about. And Doris Lessing, whatever else she was, was not a woman who liked expectations.
Roxane Gay, on why we need internet outrage:
Whenever there’s a new wave of responses to something online, we start to see exclamations of “outrage exhaustion.” People rush to judge the way others choose to express their outrage. Some ask, “Why must you exhaust me with your unruly emotions?” when the better question might be, “Why can’t I look away from your unruly emotions?”
“I’m already fat, so I might as well be smart.”
Denmark. Royal. Family. Demons.
Consider adopting older kids from the 1940s. Or just looking at their pictures and imagining their lives.
The strange, true story of Kathy Bates’ American Horror Story character, Delphine LaLaurie.
BUT can these new robot ponies do dressage?
If you’re getting increasingly scared about antibiotic resistance, don’t read this.
Every Pixar Movie Summarized In Terrible Microsoft Paint Drawings: it’s what it claims to be, and is sufficient unto itself.
Bye, Winamp.
