I feel like somehow the Republicans will turn this into another reason to try to keep women from obtaining contraception — OH, YOU WANT THE ISIS PILLS, HUH??

There are great statistics on the education of women and better well-being outcomes. All of those scenarios assume a little bit of culturally granted agency. I can’t imagine how education would have helped the these women.

I believe Malala Yusafsai was entirely correct when she told Obama that investing in education for girls would have been far more of an efficient method of combating terrorism than the drone program, or the support of rival fighter groups. Preventative or restorative investments in civil society and infrastructure are…

I have a very good friend from the north of Ireland (not Northern Ireland, just on the boarder), and she is a lesbian. I showed her an episode of The Duggars and she was suitably horrified. Upon seeing Joy Anna appear on screen she shouted, “Oh no, oh dear - oh that poor wee lesbian child! Let’s find her and help…

Christian penis rehab made me guffaw. I wonder what one learns at this magical place.; (probably how to better hide one’s sexual escapades). Brb, I need to change my shirt. I just lost my lunch thinking about Josh and sex at the same time

When something is that ingrained within your upbringing it is very, very difficult to escape. If “just leaving” was that easy, no one would stay with abusive spouses or remain in contact with abusive parents.

I went to a gym class in the South and they were playing “hardcore” Christian rap and I found myself running to “Bathe in the blood of Christ!”

Ugh no. This family just needs to go away. But they won’t because they lack the viable skills needed to get real jobs.

I am so torn about this. The girls (Jill, Jessa, and the other kids) have very few options open to them going forward because they were raised in a cult and are taught to be subservient and that their own beliefs and wants don’t matter. With no real options, I can’t really begrudge their doing this and I just hope…

If they did have a child with handicaps, they’d just use it to milk more donations from the suckers, and play the part of awesome mommy and daddy martyrs.

What, now that Joshie is out of Christian penis rehab we have to have the Duggars flung at our faces again? No. They are garbage people, and they aren’t interesting. Josh is a horrible person, his parents are horrible people, and while I feel terribly for what happened to the girls, they espouse very demeaning and…

The Central American grapevine says they’re in Guatemala. Spectacular brainpower behind choosing the Zika hotbed of the world when your raison d’etre is churning out babies.

How will Jill deal with the possibility that Zika could fuck up a potential pregnancy in Central America? It's not like they stop having sex for any reason in that family.

Think of all the awesome rhymes though.

I will never understand the decision to name a child Spurgeon. These people make a shitload of poor choices, but this might take the cake.

For a follow-up study, I’d be curious to know how people do when they routinely get 4-6 hours of sleep during the week, but then catch up by sleeping 8-10 on the weekend.

Who has time to sleep 8 hours every night? There is TV to watch and work to be done.

I can’t remember where I read this, but it’s the truest and most succinct summation I’ve ever seen:

This won’t make conservatives change their minds at all. All it’s going to result in is a proliferation of laws that classify it as feticide or infanticide, to further punish a desperate woman. So awful.