also, and inextricably, and forever: fuck ICE

I was so mad about this

Proud IDS alum (Editorial Board & columnist ‘96-‘98) horrified but unsurprised how IU is betraying its own student journalists. Purdue’s solidarity here is legend-level, but I am so sad it’s come to this

this is entirely accurate

Send. Me. This. Play.

Which I did.

After a small eternity, he got me up and into a shower stall and left me there to rinse “BUT NO SOAP!!!”

After, he handed me a fresh robe, guided me into the salt sauna, cocooned me in a nest of towels in a lounger, looked me straight in the eyes, and said, “nap now.”

At this point, I feel actually high. Floating. Legless. He carried me back to the sauna, put me back on the cedar slab, and scrubbed me with salt and oil.

My pulse dropped into the 30s.

Then he hauled me over to stand under a scalding hot shower which he interspersed with deluges of more ice water.

And then suddenly he got me up, put a towel around my waist, and when I discovered I had gone all rubber-legged, basically half carried me to an ice plunge pool, where I had to completely submerge myself. It was so cold it burned.

Every once in a while he’d pause to sprinkle cold water over me, or put a cold towel on my head, or say, “ok?” It was stupidly hot.

It got hotter and hotter. The slapping got more forceful and baroque. I couldn’t see him, but from the weird angles and rhythms, this is what I was imagining

This giant, taciturn, shirtless dude had me change into skimpy as hell disposable paper underwear, bade me lay face down in a small semi-private cedar sauna, and then gently sort of slapped me all over with these two bunches of leaves.

I cannot claim this joke, it just made me guffaw earlier today

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I would argue that a right-wing worldview is intrinsically and inextricably a patriarchal one, and therefore a startling number of modern classics would fit your brief. A story that is structurally opposed to women having agency - to say nothing of actively hating such - is easy to find.

Cats are really only suited to Pinter