Agreed. And the farmers who take government subsidy money should be ashamed. Same for students who take the Pell Grant for college. I refused to take the GI Bill or a lower rate student loan subsidized by the government. I believe in homeschooling or private school because I pay my share. I never claim mortgage…

I mostly agree with letting terminal patients try drugs that are in some form of supervised testing, but not the ideal of anything. I do have a serious caveat, though.

I appreciate the explanation — I worked in medical research for a long time so I'm aware of the above but thank you for laying it out, it's important to get the info out there. I also should have been more clear. All medicines have side effects and there is no phase of trial where researchers can rule those out.

The laws allow patients to request drugs that have passed the first clinical trial stage – the one during which scientists determine whether a drug hurts people, not whether it can cure them. Just because a drug passes the first clinical trial does not mean it eventually will gain FDA approval.

I know a guy whose wife is alive because she's been taking a drug (in a trial) not approved by the FDA. Right-to-try isn't all baking soda bullshit - and I say that as someone who loathes libertarians wholeheartedly.

Women don't poop!

When I was very, very young, I believed a similar thing, and imagined the poor babies being covered with chewed up food that the mother had eaten. This was when I was in kindergarten. But we had very educational books in kindergarten with pictures that showed that the baby was in the womb and the food was in the…

I wonder what his stance is on aborting watermelon babies and if he supports education to teach our youth not to swallow seeds.

As a 30 something woman who has also chosen not to have women, i strongly believe in paid maternity leave. It supports working women and even if i may never take advantage of it, i want to live in a world where it is a reality. Without it we see working women disenfranchised from careers when men are not and poor…

Everyone should have the option to take paid time off for extraordinary life circumstances and allowances for health or family obligations, like caring for one's children, parents, or other dependents. But having children is not like a vacation, nor does anyone do it once a year. Seriously, that is one of the dumber…

I hardly think that's what she was implying. It is possible to celebrate motherhood and mothers without denigrating those who are not mothers.

Knowing that I don't have TV, my dad immediately sent a text that I had to watch this speech because it would "make me proud as a feminist." Good looking out, Dad.

Solution: make the screen out of guns. PROBLEM SOLVED.

Because of course everyone knows rapists can't carry guns. Don't you know? It's the law.

I've figured out part of the problem. I believe "hole institution" is being used quite correctly and literally. And got dismissed for the observation.

I have thought long and hard about this piece. The author's story is powerful. I agree fully with everything the author says about the terrible damage we do to children by enforcing the gender binary, I agree with everything they say about how the kind of conventional masculinity that our society demands of men is…

Agreed. Expecting women to sacrifice time and energy we very much need for ourselves to fix men's problems for them is toxic masculinity. I'm happy to be supportive and be an ally to men who recognize patriarchy as harmful to them and are working to change it, but they're going to have *gasp!* actually do the work…

In my experience, feminists are frequently very aware of the impact of toxic masculinity on men and are, in fact, the only people who actually actively advocate to free men from rigid gender constructs. If nothing else, most feminists recognize that true equality is impossible so long as affiliation with things…

I see this horseshit all the time when people complain about 'feminazis.' They make up crazy caricatures, but they also make up crazy 'revenge' fantasies too. Hell, just look at the response to Matt Taylor's shirt. A friend of mine came fresh off imgur, saying the scientist in question had been 'bullied' and received…