When my kid asks me where babies come from, I'm just going to say "When a man and a woman love each other very much, the woman puts her hand on her stomach. Then a stranger takes a picture and publishes it. That's how a woman gets pregnant."

Back in 1996 i was driving with family from Texas to Minneapolis for the second official Mystery Science Theater 3000 convention. We went through Oklahoma, Missouri and Iowa. When we reached the Iowa/Missouri border it felt like a portal had been opened and we had entered another dimension. Another place of reality if…

I have never been to any of those places but Kansas and I will confirm that it was the worst fucking drive of my life. Nothing but tan colored flatness as far as the eye can see and I grew up in Illinois. Kansas is the WORST.

So to clarify, is Christian homophobia based entirely on the Old Testament? As in, pre-Christ? If so, seems an odd thing to be following as a primary point of reference if you claim to be Christian (given what Jesus is recorded as saying about love and forgiveness).

I self-identify as a Christian and I've read the bible cover-to-cover. There is ONE line about homosexuality being "an abomination" and sure, God destroyed an entire city, but I think it was less for homosexuality than for flagrant disregard for proprietry - men were RAPING people in the streets! In the Old Testament,…

Of course this generation isn't nearly as homophobic as the past two. Worrying about someone else's sexual identity and choices is a luxury I wish I had. How good is your life that you can actually say that "the gay agenda is a problem in this country" with a straight face? I have to worry about keeping up with my…

I'm 45. We've come a long way. Mr. Hawke is coming from that perspective.

In general he's right. I always think of this story from Ian McKellen when homophobes complain about "how they're going to explain this to our children"

How could there be no record of any order that included mashed potatoes and sweet tea? Those two things are basically all I want in life.

I still don't buy it. I'm from the South. People covet both mashed potatoes and sweet tea. You get two sides with a meal. Hogwash that no one picked sweat tea and mashed potatoes.

Yes, whatever happens, let us not punish this little child for the sins of her elders.

If this is a huge hoax/scam, then the family isn't going to find a lot of sympathy for being the target of this kind of backlash. However, if they did this because they legitimately couldn't fund their daughter's medical care, that's depressing on a whole other level

Why are racists always so convinced that everyone is exactly like them? No Gary, we're not all hypocrites. Some of us really just don't have those words in our vocabulary.

OH GOD I GOT ONE!!

As a parent of a 3yo we only go to places with him that he can handle at times he can handle. And if he freaks out we leave. That's only happened once, total meltdown. I really do get pissed at servers that tip toe around though.

When I was a kid (70s) the clothes for bigger girls were in a section called "Huskies."

No. You don't apply intersectionality to individuals so much as you do social systems. Like, I'm not going to treat a PoC any differently than if they were a white person because that would be bullshit. You treat people like people. I don't go up to people and gush about how oppressed they are. That would be…

I'm not thrilled every mention of a sexist or antifeminist man gets shorthanded as "MRA." It makes sexism sound like the niche fringe movement of a few bad apples rather than the long-standing ubiquitous social problem it is.

It's nice that his metric is shit he heard about as a kid. Because what you consider important enough to remember as a 7 yr old is representative of society as a whole.

Nope. Before feminism women were obedient housewives that never did anything, because people back then had ~*values*~

But now women are all empowered and shit, and men have to put them in their place because we can't have women acting like they're people, now can we?