Erin Gloria Ryan's discussions

I agree — the people that need convincing aren't the people on the left or the people on the far right. Fun, over-the-top Daily Show style screeds feel good when you're already on the side of gay marriage (and they definitely have their place), but I don't know how convincing they are to people on the fence. Read more

When I was in 5th grade, we canceled an entire week because it was too cold outside. Sounds exciting, but "cold days" are much less pleasant than "snow days." Sigh. Read more

Yep. And you know how much communities like voting YES for school referendums! Read more

I judge the youthiness of everyone by how close they are to my sister's age (she was born in 1989). Read more

I appreciate Cullen Jones. Read more

I was thinking about that the other night — Kyla Ross is the youngest member of the team now, and by the time 2016 rolls around, there's a good chance she'll be flirting with "too old" — at 19. Read more

Meanwhile, the polka dotted people are still marginalized. Read more

Ugh, I'm sorry that happened to you — all of that sounds awful. Read more

You have no idea how incredible at pissing I am. When I was 2, I was urinating at a 4th grade level. Read more

I've also noticed that these people who were allegedly gifted children are usually doing pretty normal stuff as adults. Read more

Can you say a little more about your experience with the problem of harassment at RPG/gaming conventions, etc? Has it happened to you? Read more

In places like Minnesota, it would make sense to take January off to cut down on heating costs. Read more

These guys have murder in their eyes. Read more

Also, I kind of like pictures of babies, as long as there's no poop or weird Anne Geddes-esque posing involved. Babies are totally cute and they make awesome faces. Read more

Totally. It seems like the simplest solution would just be to unsubscribe to your overphoto-ing parent friends, or scroll on by. DO YOUR FINGERS HURT SO BAD THAT IT GIVES YOU GREAT PAIN TO SCROLL PAST SOMETHING? Read more

She gives a grand total of ZERO fucks. Gabby Douglas is a plutonium rod of radioactive awesome. Read more

Um, what about guns? Read more

I think it has something to do with when and where you grew up — I'm from a pretty rural part of the country, and the nearest McDonald's was almost an hour's drive away when I was a kid and we ate venison, chickens we raised, and vegetables we grew in the garden, because that's just what most people did around there.… Read more

A fair point — I probably should have said "non-white urban/college educated" or something to that effect. Read more

I've noticed that in the liberal sniffing at fatties who fatted their fat way to Chick fil A Wednesday was an embedded classicism — being overweight is positively correlated with being in the economic lower classes and being in the lower class goes along with having less education and not living in cities. "Fat" and… Read more