I was shopping for some business appropriate flats two days before the election, and my mother in law was like, “Ivanka Trump makes nice flats... too bad” (she was definitely #withher, don’t worry), and I replied pretty loudly, “I’m not buying shit from that fucking family.” I got glares, but I also got a giggle and a…

Exactly. In October I found myself longing for “binders full of women” to feel scandalous.

At my 12 week appt yesterday, my doctor and I were discussing Spina Bifida - for which I’ll have my fetus screened at 15 weeks (routine). She was recounting how she had a patient skip the blood screening at 15 weeks, and waited until 18 weeks for the anatomy scan. The fetus turned out to have had the worst case of SB…

That is a good point... I truly cannot imagine him handling this job well. He has no idea how to politic, and that’s a bad thing, no matter what anyone tells you. Because that’s his job now. He is a politician. God help us.

I used to believe this but now I don’t. We were all so sure he’d quit before he even got the nomination because campaigning would be too arduous and he’d be found out as a fool (he was) and drop out in a spectacular fit (he didn’t). He keeps defying our expectations (not at all in a good way) and staying on. I have…

I agree and had the same reaction to Bernie’s comments. The dislocation of the poor is a really important story (and I think deserves Democrat’s attention for its own merits, and also for future elections), but I don’t think it is *the* story here.

The line about the limited degrees of separation between me and a white nationalist is something I’ve been mulling over a lot lately. I am a white woman, but I cannot identify a single person in my family who voted for Trump (they all, save one racist uncle with whom I regularly spar in particular over Muslims, voted…

As an avowed liberal democrat, I don’t want to live in a country without a conscientious opposition party. I think disagreement is a critical part of the governing process - and it’s something I love about democracy. Yet, this modern Republican party has become a ridiculous parody of itself - it started heading…

This is a real shit time to be pregnant, you guys. I have to deal with all this anxiety with a glass of fucking ice water.

Poor, sweet girl. This is just too sad and awful. Eleven years old.

Agreed, it’s like “binders full of women” level of sexist drivel. It sucked hard in 2012 but in 2016 there’s a piece of me thinking that that’s almost a supportive statement somehow. Welcome to Bizarro World. I am Bizarro-Allora.

This sounds like the voice my Israeli-American friend uses when she’s trying to enunciate English to our French and Italian friends.

I am so glad to hear you came to see yourself as a-OK just the way you are. And just my opinion in case you want or need it... if you want to have a male partner and pursue emotional and physical love, that’s a-OK, too. We are rooting for you to be the fullest expression of you possible. There’s only one YOU, after…

Those definitely exist, too, in addition to the genuinely great people I know who know I am who I am and accept and love me (even if they probably privately pray for my salvation). Some girls who were actively my friend in high school completely shunned me in college because I took a very clearly feminist,…

Wow. Thanks for sharing that. I feel like your last line resonates with me - it was what I was trying to get across when I was saying my Mormon friends are some of the most caring and dedicated people, who seem to be endlessly enriched by their faith and religion, and pass that onto those around them. And then,…

Sounds like we’re from similar areas.

So, I watched the video before I read the article and I genuinely hoped/believed it was making a story arc toward “my family doesn’t want to hear (about) me having sex but they accept my partner” and that the video would end with a montage of this softball loving couple just smiling at the dinner table over some…

Dude. I want to give her a standing ovation for how she handled that exchange. She straight up OWNED him with those side eye glances and with perfectly reasoned responses. No feathers ruffled on her end. If you’d have told me like 12 months ago that I’d be grateful to Megyn Kelly, I would not have believed you. But…

I reckon few anywhere can afford a multi-million dollar home. So it goes these days in desirable urban centers... I live in one of the most expensive and explosive real estate markets in the US, and had to put in 4 different offers on houses before I got this one. We lost one to someone who outbid us by 12%. TWELVE…

Pretty sure that’s brisket... or supposed to be? I dunno. If I were from Austin, home of Franklin Barbecue and The Salt Lick, I’d be ashamed to show meat lookin’ like that.