And the punching. MUST rember the punching.

Which rape is set up to be almost impossible to do, even at the time. She says it was rape, he says rough sex, no proof, he walks.

Not like private sector is much better about it—have to make the stockholders happy now—not later...

I discovered this guy last year—Still one of my favs as a double whammy:

Okay, okay, and all of this is important and all. But the real question is where am I supposed to take my husband if we can’t go to Red Lobster (he’s vegetarian)?! Can I just make cheddar Bey biscuits at home? He’s NEVER had them. EVER.

(Yes, sarcasm, if anyone missed it...)

Funny, most custody is settled before a judge ever sees it, and when it is fought out in front of a judge it is pretty near 50-50. Men rarely get custody because they rarely ask for it, and women tend to have the edge in having been doing more parenting.

Probably—one of the big factors is that white guys tend to bring in more white guys. You get a diverse bunch of people in there, and they will bring in more diverse people. Because connections matter. And eventually it becomes self sustaining. But at first, you just have to do it. Go find the people the current system…

That is part of why my Philosophy degree is damn near useless. I all but had my BA, was torn between law school or teaching, and then stopped and counted how many adjunct professors I had who were tossed from school to school every semester or so. Then I looked at Law School with my new, wiser eyes and what baby…

All people are capable, eventually, but the bar is set lower for men for a variety of social and physical reasons. So women may want to kill mean, but men have (and take) the opportunity to do so with far more frequency. Which is why we should change the social norms that make it easier to kill women.

Yes I have. And I really doubt you’ll find many women over 30 who haven’t feared for their safety if not their lives at least once.

Should we be concerned that SeaWorld has him?

I wonder—Insurance issues? If he was on a high deductible plan, his deductible would have reset in January and might have moved surgery out of reach again. Or maybe something necessary was not covered even though the surgery was (that happened with my grandmother—a pacemaker like implant in her brain was approved for…

It is like the chicken game of who will give way when walking!

WOW! A vaccine with evil powers so vast that when administered in the third trimester it causes developmental problems in the first...

And it is anecdotal, but it seems like a lot of black men compensate somewhat for racism by embracing sexism. So you put a white woman (who is embracing racism as her answer to success because of sexism) over a black man (who is embracing sexism as his answer to success because of racism) and you have a NASTY…

I’m convinced the basic weakness in trying to work intersectionality into any sort of group is that most marginalized people cling to the privileges they do have to try to work around/over/through the ways they are marginalized. Poor white cis-men tend to cling to race and sex and gender privileges, poor white…

I think it has become more overt (both in that instances are shared more easily and because people find support both for sharing it and some get their 15 minutes of fame by being overtly assholes) but I don’t know if it is more de facto racist. Now people get caught on film saying things they could plausibly deny…

You really do. If it were not for all the snow and ice you would be dealing with an invasion.....wait a minute! Is that all a lie?! Or exaggerated? To discourage us?

Anyway, if certain things happen in the elections, I am counting on my husband being an RN to help get us in....

With my niece the biggest thing preschool did was teach her to learn/sit/pay attention in a school appropriate way. (She lives with me, so I was a little more involved than most aunts. She is 6.) It is really hard on many kids to go from running pretty wild to having to listen to adults other than parents and…

I would bet some do. Unfortunately.