Cate Young's saved articles

Just read the synopsis of Sharknado and was like "But there can't be a hurricane in Los Angeles!"

I would think the Koch brothers or people who are so rich that they're actively impoverishing entire nations would be the worst human beings alive. Read more

Seriously if you think this make anyone the 'worst human being alive' I'd highly suggest you rethink your priorities. And possibly pull your head out of your ass and get to know the real world. Read more

You eloquently express what I was hoping to say. I don't disagree that mothering is hard work. It's such hard work that I wouldn't want to do it unless I was 110 percent willing. But when people use the word "job" I think it's meant to say "Hey women, don't worry about doing paid work because the most esteemed thing… Read more

Being a mother isn't a "job" anymore than being a wife or daughter is a job. Not everything that requires putting work into it is a job. When my parents are a lot older, I may have to do a shitload of work to care for them, but that won't make my being a daughter a job. I think calling motherhood a "job" is also… Read more

Actually, there is a connection between melanocytes (the cells that express skin color) and collagen production — and you know what they say: the blacker the berry, the stronger the collagen matrix (OK, no one has ever said that). Read more

YES. As an F, I feel your pain - literally, as I have also done that. And because I developed early, sports quickly became painful, rather han fun. Which sucks - I loved team sports! Read more

That's what I always say. Here are the tips for staying young: Read more

It's called being black. It is a GREAT anti-wrinkle treatment. Read more

Can we trade? I want sport boobs. These f*%$ers are a literal pain. I can't move my arms freely. I can't find clothes that actually fit (I am a small person everywhere else). I pay through the nose for bras. As MoGlo expressed in her article, running hurts. They are thoroughly, completely impractical. They're no… Read more

Am I the only person who panics when she can't get a sweaty sports bra off? It gets all rolled up across my back and shoulders. It's like I'm trapped in the thing and it's all I can do to stop racing for scissors to free myself. Read more

Private Practice kind of ruined Taye Diggs for me in some ways. They made him such a wishy washy jerk, which reminded me of my ex, and now I associate him with angry instead of sexy feelings. Whhhyyy. Read more

So in college, my friends and I invented a new evolutionary set of nuts-related Pokémon. Read more

I saw this and I was “wow, that’s an awesome Black superman" and BAM I notice the Diamond stud lol. completely threw me off lol little bit of Stereotyping. JUST A LITTLE

The standard I like to use is whether a change of race must change the character origin, and then whether the character origin is acceptable. Read more

I'm personally perfectly fine with reimagining a white character as black as long as it respects their essence - and, for the record, I'll take a black British James Bond over a white American Jimmy Bond any time, every time -, but I think it's much better to actually create more black superheroes. Sure you can turn… Read more

To what extent does the society they live in (more importantly, grow up in) limit their perceptions of what is possible and not, though? Don't we talk all the time about how privilege blinds people to the status of the less-privileged? So we know that social status affects perception and even the limits of the boxes… Read more

"IS her advice really that awful?" Read more

"the universe of women he can marry is limitless" Read more

I just want to say this. Some Muslims may have brown skins. But that does not necessarily mean that they are actually racially not white/caucasian. "Arab" is a term of culture, not a race or religion. From Wiki: "They are identified as such on one or more of genealogical, linguistic or cultural grounds", with tribal… Read more