They do have a better track record when it comes to women's and children's rights.

I'm trying!

Well I believe it was Reagan who cut funding for Head Start and other childcare programs for low-income families, while Bill Clinton signed the FMLA bill into existence. Not employers, but still...

AGH! I'm a business reporter and I see this a lot in female execs. There's this bizarre sense of pride they feel when they tell me about how they scheduled their induction at 38 weeks, were making deals from their hospital beds, and spent their one week off working from home with a baby in one arm. Definitely an…

Well that's just it, isn't it? Republicans don't think women should be working at all. The whole "Family Values" platform is just dog whistle for "man as head-of-the-household/breadwinner, woman as domestic dependent, children as virility trophies." At least I'm convinced that's why we have no paid maternity…

Wait. Does The Five really have a fake liberal?

So, so, so confused. This helped clarify things for me: "The bill would ban federal subsidies and tax benefits to private insurance plans if they cover abortion, broadening the scope of the Hyde Amendment, which already largely prohibits taxpayer funding for abortion."—From MSNBC.

I really hate this debate because while I personally wouldn't take my baby to a 3-star restaurant, something about the concept of a baby's very existence being somehow rude or impolite always unsettles me. And the fact is that no matter where you go, if your baby starts crying, you're GOING to get dirty looks from…

This is what gets me about the GOP's "Family Values" platform. They claim to BE the Family Values party, but they don't support decent paid parental leave, raising the minimum wage so single parents can support their families, affordable healthcare, or subsidized child care. What they support is a traditional familial…

I wonder if wearing a wire would suffice. Because it would be a lot easier to wear a wire every time you think you may have a chance encounter with a man than it would be to video tape it.

Samesies! I actually considered myself pro-life (or reluctantly pro-choice—I thought abortion was evil but was unfortunately a right) when I got pregnant with my first son. A few months in, I realized that shit is for real. Having been raised by fierce Republicans, I had bought into the conservative notion (really,…

I was really hoping this was going to be about how Rush Limbaugh is accusing liberals of inventing the cold.

Whooooooaaaaa. Groooooosssss....

True story: I kind of love the Honey Boo Boo family. I don't watch the show, but when I have seen it, they just seem so adorable and loving. And the whole "there's nothing wrong with bein' a little gaaaay" comment just kind of made my day.

Lord. My cradle-robbing husband would've had to put up with my ultra-baggy jeans that were so big I dragged items into the house off the street, along with my adamant refusal to brush my hair or stand up straight. Because good posture= selling out!

That's what I don't get either. Like, it wasn't even a joke. It was just Jay Mohr calling Alyssa Milano fat. For christ's sake, at least when Joan Rivers calls people fat, she tries to be funny about it. Jay Mohr didn't even fucking try! That's entitlement for you.

I was actually wondering about this too...and I started on this whole thought-train of "feminizing the minority Other" and whatnot...

Right?!?! My baby sister's name is Kieranne (my parents made up the feminization spelling) and of course we all looked up the name's meaning and saw that it means "dark" or "black"—which is ironic 'cause my sister's a total ginge. How could they NOT have known? I don't buy for a second that they found out through the…

Okay, someone had to point out the irony here. Yeah, it sucked that it could easily be construed as making fun of transracial families, but COME ON. It's a total picture of the Republican party! Everybody is super gendered and they bring in a token minority when they need to!

Seriously. Dare we even get started on the neo-colonial implications of the adoption? I haven't seen any info on where the baby was adopted from, but I'm going to hazard a guess that he came from some impoverished African country where his parents were probably tricked into handing him over so that he can have a…