a trashy newspaper, but the headline caught my eye.
It’s funny because it’s true. Also true for the other women who have testified.
Nothing we didn’t already know:
They say it’s up to 70% in the U.S. I’m sure even that is a conservative estimate.
Unsurprising, but rage inducing, nonetheless… but it’s not that bad, and really it’s the menz who are being oppressed right now… /s
Joan Rivers. I like her. Don Rickles said she was very intelligent, and very caring on stage. I tend to discount Johnny Carson’s opinion of her, because he was a fucking misogynist from the get-go.
This is a great bit. I also remember her work on “Sesame Street” and “The Electric Company” doing voiceovers. “W” for the former and “The Adventures of LETTER MAN!” for the latter.
Anyhow, jokes about lingerie are common now, but back then…well, Erma B. wrote a column on them; and, well, just watch:
She was pretty horrible to Elizabeth Taylor in particular and fat women in general, though.
I’d be interested in seeing this. I’m not going to apologize or try to defend her, because hey, she’s dead, and she prolly wouldn’t care if she were alive, lol. But she managed to do what a lot of folks who reach her status do not: Have a happy marriage and a good relationship with her daughter. Also: The self-deprecating skinny jokes; boy, can I relate to them!
And if we’re going to learn from mistakes, learn from the best and their biggest.
Genius set. Love her.
I totally have a thing for advice columns, since I read Ann Landers in the newspaper in elementary school. Allison Green is an excellent advice giver, for workplace advice, anyway.
She is right on this, 1000%: “This is gross and sexist and you should stop.” Indeed.
Because cleaning up after oneself is fucking ENOUGH, plus not having to worry about remembering to put the toilet seat down. It might be the 21st century, but for the most part, when a woman is living in a house, she is the one who’s expected to do all the scutwork.
{ sigh }. Oh, never mind me whistfully dreaming of such an arrangement.
I personally am fine with maintaining separate residences. And you have those, like me, who are set in their personal habits/ways and don’t want to break in ONE more person that may or mayn’t be trusted with such knowledge.
But I’ve “spent weekends” at guys’ houses and it’s like I had to clean some surfaces and items before they could be touched/used. I used to think personal cleanliness didn’t matter, that you know, creative folks are slobs. And yeah, I’m of the Erma Bombeck School of Housekeeping - “Dust is for those who don’t have pencils and paper by the phone” being that school’s motto; but sheezus pleezus, I got some standards of my own.
Now pardon me while I go scrub my bathtub that’s had Comet powder mixed with water sitting in it for about a half-hour.
Literally my top priority for Next Man is cleanliness. Like, not just remember to flush the toilet sometimes, but regularly use a scrub brush on it.