I am a hard core pacifist egalitarian with Quaker roots, and I'm sufficiently rigid that this doesn't change my mind about that. It still hurts to even think about though.

I frequently retweet Yoko Ono

Yeah... considering how powerful her voice was in the first place and how young she still is, I would be very surprised if the damage is enough to prevent her from recording an album.

Thanks! I admit that "most glamorous pharmacologist" is a fairly low bar, but I think his story is pretty cool.

PS, because I adore my family history and can't resist a chance to share part of it - my great great great (I think that's the right number of generations) grandfather was a doctor who did research to develop new treatments, and there's a statue in his honor in a small town in southern Sweden because he protested the…

This would be the best pharmacologist origin story ever. Okay, pharmacologists don't usually have great origin stories. But this would be a great one.

Eh I kinda did. She(?) was right to criticize me but I also think I was right to criticize her - this is a situation where I'm going to argue but I don't think badly of the person I'm arguing with.

I would judge any single parent this harshly for abandoning his/her/their/zir children. But I suppose you have no reason to know that about me, and you're right that female parents are generally judged more harshly for bad parenting than male parents.

I think the morality of the father, assuming that he did walk out, is irrelevant to this particular crime because he's already unhelpful and out of the picture. She KNEW that her children would be alone, defenseless, unfed, and uncared for if she abandoned them. He didn't have that certainty. I'm definitely not a…

You're being horrible on a public forum. Expect criticism. If I started calling for white only women's forums because black women are culturally just too loud and aggressive, or some other equally stereotype-driven and offensive crap, I HOPE people would be up my ass about it.

To be fair, she was their primary caregiver and she abandoned them without any warning or backup plan for their safety. There's a difference between this, and walking out on a partner who has young children. Hopefully I never meet anyone who does either, but, y'know, not quite the same thing.

Community service at an all girls high school. Then she'd be grateful to have her own kids back.

This whole conversation was for shit and I apologize on behalf of cis feminists.

I have a question: Would you rather have a trans man in a women's space than a trans woman? By your logic, trans men ought to have female socialization and "female" responses to social situations. They also look like this:

:( I'm sorry to hear that it took you so long to appreciate your looks. I'm sure you're beautiful!

I have a quasi-similar ethnic background, and I kiiiiinda got the Sami looks. As in I'm little and stocky with black hair and ONE HOODED EYE. Seriously, just my right eye. My left eye is anime character round.

OH MY GOD don't jinx the Hillary thing. She's not even my favoritr Democratic candidate, but face it, she'll win the primary and please please can we never have a conservative president again?

I agree. My parents have always sworn like sailors, to the extent that "shit" was my littlest brother's... third word, maybe. We all turned out fine (respectful, ultimately successful in school, no trouble with the law), and I still consider my parents to be extremely good parents. There's a BIG difference between…

In that case, is your pumpkin pie hate only towards the store bought ones? Those are disgusting but they also don't really count, because it's not significantly harder to make it yourself with good ingredients and actually enjoy it.

I see your sugar pie and raise you treacle tart - basically the same thing but with treacle instead of maple, breadcrumbs(???England?), and a shortbread crust.