While it is often a difficult choice, that is definitely exacerbated by the political rhetoric. For many women, without that rhetoric, the choice to have an abortion when they were already actively trying to avoid getting pregnant, would perhaps be much less agonizing.

While that might be a reasonable way of separating Sanger from Ghandi, I don’t know that the same can be said of Lincoln. He said he would allow slavery to continue if it would keep the nation unified without war. I also don’t know that its any different from recognizing the role of any our nation’s founding fathers,…

I’m not saying your interpretation isn’t the most likely, but I’m a scientist, and I can’t help but say their are other interpretations of the data.

1. I never said either was “too” old. In fact, given both the law and our recent election outcome, I’d posit neither is (or will be) too old.

Yep. For some reason I don’t entirely understand, Dems are less into being perpetual candidates. If Warren doesn’t run again, I think Bernie should at least consider it. He’ll be old, but so is Trump. Given how quickly he went from relatively unknown to a movement, plus the presumed lessons learned for next time, I…

I’m not so sure. While I certainly agree a man with HRC’s resume would have a won, I think we can’t forget how much people want to like the candidate. The whole “but I could enjoy a beer with Bush” thing. Warren does not come with the personality baggage HRC had, and I think that’s a definite plus.

She won’t be older than Trump, who will prob be the GOP nominee if he manages not to get impeached.

The tea party held trainings, I’ve heard

I was all over Ted Lieu. But now, Daylin is my new politicrush.

I’m not into scotch. Can I use vodka?

I was about to ask if you went to the same school as me. However, our property taxes aren’t that high and I don’t think we have a quiz bowl team. I participated in most of the other stuff you did - and took 5 APs senior year, which I think was our max.

I went to public school in a small city (~45K) in what is technically considered a rural part of the country (because that small town is by far the largest in the county). We had one school district, one large high school that served our city and several other much smaller ones, and fairly decent range of household…

Agreed! I guess a more succinct version of my point: talk to kids about things they do and things they think. Limit talk about how they inherently look, especially with value judgments around how they look (i.e. pretty).

Yeah. But you’re not running from a velociraptor (in real life, not the gif). What happens after you get caught? Probably nothing of any consequence.

I try really hard not to talk to young girls about the things about their looks they cannot change - and to always ask about school and hobbies before I get in to chatter about non-important things. I wax and wane with an interest in fashion and makeup, so I do sometimes say things like “that’s such a cute dress” or…

Some (smart but disruptive in class) guy called me and my friends the “Nerd Herd” once in high school. When we got done lamenting his idiocy, we had shirts made. We wore them to pep rallies. We laughed (loudly, mean girl style) and pointed at the girls who deliberately dumbed themselves down to be more popular. We…

Maybe that’s it! I don’t know if I ever thought one gender was smarter - and I certainly have known plenty folks of average intelligence (and, often, poor critical reasoning skills) of both genders. I read basically every Nancy Drew book ever, many more than once. She was way smarter than Ned Nickerson.

I agree. That’s why, assuming we still have free and fair elections in 2018, we have to primary the crap out of any Democrat who thought “be agreeable now in exchange for some nebulous future good will from the GOP” was an acceptable strategy.

I don’t know. Its nice that a wider audience wants to be associated with feminism as a “brand.” Its nice that these women are socially active and engaged in a national conversation. However, I’m not sure this is either new or helpful to anyone but themselves. Its really like Phyllis Schlafly 2.0, and there were…

Honestly, this is like saying “voter ID laws are not about decreasing Democratic turnout.” Sure, the law will effect some non-Democrats and the EO will effect some non-Muslims. However, the main goal and net effect is still deliberately and disproportionately on those groups.