lindywest
Lindy West
lindywest

1. That is not specified anywhere, as far as I can tell! Read more

Please quote the "outraged feminism" part of this article. Read more

Not making fun of her at all! Just reacting to the mental picture of DJ Tanner (i.e. the DJ Tanner in the gif) describing herself as a "sexual woman." Also, I say "okey dokey" all the time in like a million different inflections. Read more

I'm saying he literally has that pun on a t-shirt. Read more

Get into a conversation with him about fungi and I promise YOU WILL WISH HE WAS IMAGINARY. Read more

Ha, yeah. I'm trying to be nice because I know breakups are hard, but MEET ME HALFWAY, GOOP. Read more

No worries! It would have taken me literally 2 seconds to prevent this entire conversation. So, my bad. Read more

We were specifically talking about black people because my stepdaughter is black. So I'm guessing she thought I was asking if there were any black people in the main cast, while I assumed that her response was about POC in general. This was a miscommunication and all the mistakes were mine. (This all happened a really Read more

You are making a lot of assumptions about how my family works and what boundaries we have/have not negotiated internally. Read more

Oh man, that's one of the best things about Degrassi: TNG!!! So much acne and gawkiness and weird pants. Read more

Well, we're engaged, so I do participate in raising the kids. Also, I never specified or even implied what my partner does/doesn't teach them, so please don't make assumptions about whether or not he's "stepping up." Read more

Hey, all! Thanks for the correction! I'm so sorry—I definitely didn't mean to erase anyone's ethnicity or experiences. I clearly should have looked it up. I've actually never seen the show; I was just going by what the 12-year-old told me. (Now I will NEVER TRUST HER AGAIN.) It was part of a much larger conversation Read more

Yeah, I felt weird announcing it anywhere because sometimes I don't know how much of myself I should give to the internet. But I did put up a kind of oblique post about it on my tumblr and then, IDK, I'm just really excited and happy and I feel pretty comfortable with my little afternoon Dirt Bag crowd, so, yeah. Read more

CLEARLY YOU ARE NOT CONNOISSEURS OF THE FINE ARTS Read more

I'm not objecting to anything. I'm simply making some observations about the way we discuss drug-related deaths, and trying to preemptively encourage people to think twice about it. Read more