Even beyond that, a lot of very smart people who research women in politics have been trying to move the conversation in recent years beyond simple descriptive takes (How many women are in parliaments? Has there ever been a female executive?) into deeper and more substantive questions. One of the factors that emerges…

Since I’m in the grays and my original comment will probably never get approved, just want to cosign your post. Representation ALWAYS matters, especially in a traditionally misogynistic institution like the military and Pentagon as a whole.

Still better than some old white dude. There’s gotta be thousands of male imperialist hawks who have worked for defense contractors he could have chosen instead.

May Secretary Flournoy help undermine and, with the House, slowly dismantle the CRs that have led our military to endless, unaccountable war mongering.

I’ve read lots of epically stupid Jezebel posts, but this has to up there. By the logic of this article it wouldn’t be good to have a woman President either, since they’d be “complicit in US imperialism.” You know there will be a Secretary of Defense no matter what, right? And they aren’t going to hire a peace…

Anybody thinking Big Baby Cheezus could pull off a “coup” is deluding themselves, dude is lazier than shit and intimidated by stairs

Former Trump supporters are welcome to join me, but I won’t move an inch to meet them in the middle.

I am really frightened and disgusted by people that say “it’s time to come together”, “let’s heal the nation” and other weak “both sides” nonsense. Trump’s large minority of fascist/republicans are willfully ignorant and are quite frankly, evil in their intent. They don’t care that innocent people are murdered in the…

I can confirm that our goal is absolutely a full-blown matriarchy. First we gain the presidency, then we start oppressing the men.

We start passing laws on what elective medical procedures they can have to erode their bodily autonomy, pay them less so they’re more dependent on us, only test medication on women so it’s …

Right, I completely agree, but as an atheist, I don’t feel qualified to tell people what their religion really says. I have lots of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim friends who are ardent feminists, and if they understand their religions to be pro-women, I’m certainly not going to say they’re wrong. I agree that a…

Also, during the centuries of exclusively male leadership, shit got really fucked up, especially since this last one was so concerned with waving his tiny hands around to make himself feel like Big Manly Man, so I for one would gladly welcome the change.

And do note who made up that rule: men.

What a bunch of whiny little assholes. We’ve had centuries of exclusively male leadership, even if Harris does become president life will go on. Also, if your religion tells you that ‘women voting goes against “God’s ordained order of men being the leaders”’, time to choose a new religion.

When Dems won a bunch of seats in 2018, it was only because of moderates who had moderate policies. When Dems lost some of those seats in 2020, it is because of progressives who have progressive policies. How weird! Progressives can never take any credit when Democrats win, but always get blame when Democrats lose! It…

I don’t agree with cdwag14 often but they is 100% correct in this. Pelosi has done her part in this and this shit is all the way on on Mitch McConnell.

So instead of putting the face of Mitch McConnell up there you put Nancy Pelosi like it is her fault. Then again over 70 million white folks decided that things were hunky dory and needed to stay that way. I mean Taneshi Coates said it best white people would rather be white than free. The Senate ain’t done shit for…

When I was first dating my husband, he asked me to use Pinterest to find some hairstyles that he could show the stylist at his next hair appointment. I thought Darren Criss has similar hair texture so I pinned a few pics of him. Ever since whenever my husband goes on Pinterest, his feed is just topless photos of…

A writer I follow on Facebook posted a bunch of Tweets this morning from right wingers bemoaning how Fox is pandering to the left now and completely unfair and they’re all moving to NewsMax because they’re REAL NEWS!

Remember the Lt Gov in Texas offering $1M was offering for evidence of voter fraud? Well the Lt Gov in Pennsylvania sure does, and he wants to collect.

Actually, it is true—local police don’t even have the authority to issue an Amber Alert, and it is not used for runaways or parental abductions unless violence is implicated. From the official Louisiana Amber Alert state website: