I’m not sure it’s “sinking in.” Those anti-choice “feminists” quoted above seem confused. At the very least, feminism is about equality for women - not just with men, but with fetuses. You can’t say that fetuses’ rights trump women’s rights to their bodies - that a fetus has more rights to a woman’s body than she does…

And in this vain (see what I did there?), I make a point of retweeting directly at him all the articles that come across my feed highlighting either something he might find embarrassing (I.e. The crowd sizes) or how insane everyone thinks he is, plus all the sick burns and good reads clever ppl tweet. I want him to…

Don’t die. I’ve got enough anxiety over Trump without the added layer of worry that said anxiety could actually kill me.

I want this pig.

While I think we can probably debate endlessly when “life” begins, what we should really focus on is whether women are obligated to gestate every fertilized ovum that finds its way to her uterus. IMO, its reasonable to say that, at some fairly arbitrary point, your choice or inability to terminate your pregnancy has…

I don’t know. I mean, housing is very important. As important as national security? I guess not. But for poor people who don’t it, its a big freaking deal. Some of us saying “I guess he’s not so bad as the others” is a bit like white people saying “I guess stop and frisk isn’t so bad” - its easy to let other people…

He neither realizes it nor gives any fucks.

It is good practice to ask a patient if they are being hurt by a partner - much like its good practice to ask if you drink too much. Some states do have mandatory reporting for domestic violence, but most only require reporting if certain weapons were used (guns, knives, etc) or certain types of injuries occurred.…

Your social groups might be similar in belief, but your families probably are not. At least among my fairly middle class social group, most people have an aunt, a cousin, a whoever who is less educated, less well off, and consistently votes Republican. Even my fairly wealthy friends all seem to have “that one branch…

I was really hoping this would be a petition for one of them to file for divorce. Your idea is much more reasonable/important

Depending on how you want to think about it, “let” isn’t really the same as consent. I think a certain former Congressman from Missouri would argue that, except in the “most legitimate of rapes,” women “let” their rapists have sex with them. A certain PEOTUS would certainly agree that women who are sexually harassed…

True. And the Democratic “machine” fails at messaging because democratic voters keep electing the same messengers. It’s time to primary some of these traditional, can’t make a case for their policies to the general public politicians into retirement.

That’s a weird, sort of suspicious story. Doctors typically don’t report suspected abuse of anyone besides minors and the elderly, as there isn’t anyone (for better or worse) to really act on those complaints if the patient won’t admit to being abused. I guess you might refer them to in-hospital social workers to get…

Which is...special. But I’m honestly not sure that white southerners (particularly poor or rural ones) eat significantly differently than black southerners - or have appreciably different health outcomes. Obesity, diabetes, heart disease etc rates in Mississippi are uniformly bad.

Ditto basically everything here. Boundaries are important. You and your husband have to evaluate what you think will likely happen, and what you think you’ll be able to live with after. If you really think she’ll behave horribly, then you should also evaluate whether A) you’ll be angry with your husband for subjecting…

I’m on the board of a non profit corporation, and I can tell you, the tangible benefits to me do not outweigh the intangible costs (particularly, my time). They basically just pay the cost of my travel to meetings, plus provide me with good, but typically not amazing, food during the meetings. It’s a non profit, so…

Sounds familiar, no?

Given the well-documented problems with sex-offender registries, I’m not sure any law promoting its use is a good thing. I’d be much more impressed with a law that both addressed the registry issues and prevented actual predators from being my uber driver. I do not care if a college freshman who had sex with his high…

This. Most of Trump’s ideas are bad. So refuse to support them. Should he have a good idea, vote for that. In the meantime, get your shit together on messaging and both pummel him over the bad ideas and promote your own good ideas.

I think its a bit silly to suggest that people should neither have nor voice a hypothesis about what might have been more effective. Obviously, those hypotheses can never be proven. However, that doesn’t mean that people should not reflect on what went wrong, either as an academic thought exercise or in strategizing…