This is.......so horribly fucked up. I can’t even get over how fucked up this is. It’s hard enough going on dates with people you’ve met online, despite chatting for a week or so via text. You’re terrified of this very thing happening - that this person you think is great is not who they said they were at all. I want…

That guy was obviously in the wrong. I don’t think that’s up for debate in this particular area of the internet, but I think it was entirely unnecessary for her to post that guy’s photo to her Instagram. If we use Jia’s/the common definition of bullying, Amy Schumer is the person in a position of power and I’m quite…

I hate all of this. I hate that people act this way towards celebrities. I hate that celebrities have so much social media access to retaliate harshly. Can’t everyone just be respectful and kind? Yes, I already know the answer to that.

I was in a Target in Chicago on Sunday and the women’s restroom was closed for cleaning. I waited behind two other women to use the family restroom. When I found my boyfriend afterward he joked that I could’ve just gone into the men’s room. And yeah, I COULD. I could always just walk into a men’s room. And have at…

It really needs to be explained visually to these people, like they were five year olds.

One of the proudest days of my life was when this country elected a black president. I didn’t think it would happen in my lifetime. Since then, I’ve had many many many more days of just abject embarrassment as our country (and some of my family, dammit) have shown just how racist we still are. That he SURVIVES eight…

Clever girl.

“How DARE you make me feel uncomfortable, black people!”

As a white dude who has voted for our president twice and has deep admiration for the President Obama, I got teary when I read Larry’s remarks because my pride must be infinitesimal in comparison to Whitmore’s.

I as a white person feel uncomfortable if anyone *but* black folk use either form of the conjugation. I feel white folk are not entitled to it. (We feel entitled to too much already.)

White folks’ relationship with the n word is truly fascinating and it encapsulates white pathology so perfectly. Eliminate the word we used (use) to oppress because black people are reclaiming it and it makes us uncomfortable and as we all know white comfort takes precedent over the very concept of humanity.

“Well we’ve clocked the tortoise at 1 mile per hour...”

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You can only conclude one thing from the professor’s statement: that he, too, is a rapist.

You’re right about the Craft. That movie is perfection.

What accordingto said. Midwives who are allowed to attend home births are very, very highly trained - they are the elite of the midwife corps. Midwives handle almost all births in UK hospitals anyway; they are nurses who take further exams and specialise in birth. You see an obstetrician if you are having a…

Exactly. And I don’t grudge paying taxes that help other people as well as me. That’s sort of the point of paying tax - so services are there when you need them. Everyone is born, everyone dies, everyone may falter in between. Not everyone can pay for any or all of those things.

The UK’s midwifery/home birth system is much, much more regulated and structured than ours. Like, not only are they all licensed, trained, educated, experienced medical professionals, but midwife-attended home AND hospital births make up a much larger percentage of births. From what I understand, if you’re deciding to…

Free at the point of need, paid for by taxes.

There is also a potential selection issue in addition to the midwife training etc. it matters who is having home births. If it's a normal cross section of mothers in Europe and Canada but a skewed sample of more at risk populations in the US (folks who can't afford hospitals or good prenatal care, rural populations,…