Sounds like it’s time for some new terminology. It looks like they want to indicate which parent bore the pregnancy, which could have some valid uses for medical history or genealogy work, but there’s no need for it to completely misgender the person. “Gestational father,” perhaps? Or maybe just use the right word for…

Or just broaden the definition of ‘father’ to include trans men who give birth? Seems like that would be far more logical than using a word that is pretty universally understood as referring to women. 

Uh, why not just call both “parent”? For fuck’s sake.

Police exist to protect the interests of the upper class and oppress poor people and anyone who signs up for that is open to judgment. And maybe if we had an actual safety net and funded, I don’t know, mental health workers instead, we wouldn’t need cops to do a million different things every day (that they are not…

I know one good Crossfitter. Talks about WODs a lot but is always fostering like fiftyleven rescue dogs.

ACAB tho.

Anytime Lana Del Rey dates someone publicly I just go “Him?”  It’s very confusing, and it gets into Grimes and Elon Musk territory since it kind makes me like her a wee bit less, or just question their judgement. 

“His justification reminds me of Thomas Middleditch, who recently outed himself as someone who coerced his wife into an open marriage.”

I’m so glad she said this, and she’s dead right about it. Every single lawmaker should be called on the carpet like this, every day. They shouldn’t be able to show their faces in public anywhere without being demanded to do their jobs. I’m not sure shame has any power anymore, but it’s worth trying.

“I like what she had to say, but I still think she’s—sorry—a bitch,” said a 56-year-old Trump supporter.

“I like what she had to say, but I still think she’s—sorry—a bitch,” said a 56-year-old Trump supporter.”

I always cringe when we compare Liz Warren to Hillary Clinton. Liz Warren is SO MUCH MORE PROGRESSIVE than Hillary, which to me is a strength. They are both white women who conservatives hate and both intelligent policy wonks, but the progressive nature of Warren’s platforms and detailed plans is worth noting. They…

A similar letter was presented to the World Health Assembly in May and was signed by the United States, Brazil, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Haiti, Ghana, Nigeria, and Iraq.

my bet is sadly,  he will always have a job. a lot of rape apologists in corporate america etc. i just reread her letter, it really choked me up still. she is a great writer and i hope she thrives.

I don’t blame her for trying to keep that experience as outside of the day to day as possible. I went the other way with a campus sexual assault by a classmate and I can’t say it was a positive experience.

There was a BBC show called “The Edwardian Country House”, from 2002, that was a sort of reality show in that they recruited people to be both family and staff for a set period, and they had to run the household like it would have been run in Edwardian times - while wearing Edwardian dress. No surprise, at the end,…

Technically, the Dowager’s argument was for serfdom, not slavery. But also, she’s meant to sound like a relic—the narrative doesn’t take her side. It’s worth pointing out that, while the Dowager is waxing fondly about tying serfs to the land, it’s another wealthy woman (Sybil) who is defying her father and grandmother…

What’s interesting to me about the prophetic angle, is that Atwood is first and foremost a historian. She has long-stated that the content of The Handmaid’s Tale was not some horror fantasy she dreamt up - she pulled each piece of it from history. It still falls well within the dystopian category, but I am sometimes…

It is really well written. I couldn’t put it down. The world building is good though there are a few holes in it.

Just in terms of her prose, Atwood is a phenomenal writer and her books always have that as a redeeming quality.

Having said that, I’ve not read Handmaid’s Tale yet for the same reasons you haven’t and I told myself I’d pick it up the day after Trump was no longer in office.