I mean the founding fathers literally didn’t want ANYONE from the root voting. Only people who owned land could vote originally, and that meant you had to be a white man. We had two constitutional amendments, one to extend voting to men of any race, and another to extend voting to women. A third, if you count…
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LMAO, FAIR POINT
“I have some quibbles with Rowling’s world building—how does magic work, exactly?”
Wow. This is a great article that I hope every parent... no, every person reads. Thanks for sharing this wisdom of kindness and civility, especially in our current climate. I needed this.
You can’t correct for behaviors if you’re continuing to lie about it and publicly slandering the victim. Supporting that is dismissing what her wife experienced.
Hannibal, can this be unshared?
Vulva, not vagina. The vagina is the interior, canal part. The vulva is the exterior including mound, labia, vaginal opening, etc. It’s an important distinction.
I think one of the greatest silent justices I saw this weekend was the SNL skit with Matt Damon as Kavanaugh. Why? Because Dr. Blasey Ford wasn’t depicted. They left her out specifically, as if to say, “We will only make caricatures of those who chose to be in the spotlight.” I am proud of them for that, so that Ford…
Dr. Blasey Ford knew what was going to happen. The accusations, the slander, the lies, the death threats against her and her family.
When he said “I’m a keg is half full type of guy” I almost fell off my chair. Brilliant. (Even though Matt Damon has shown himself to be pretty ignorant of his own white male privilege in the past)
So I’ve been severely triggered this week. I have been sexually assualted 3 times in my life but the one that resonated with me most this week was when I was 16. I was at a small gathering (8-10 people) drinking Coronas. My best friends boyfriend was there but she was not. I went outside to have a cigarette and he…
Baldwin didn’t explicitly say that this was her personal survival story, but she may have been hinting that it was.
On the tea analogy, I wish they would have also included a person starting to drink tea, but deciding part way through that they didn’t want to finish the tea.
It’s more about how his indecisiveness impacts others. His best friend says that it has negatively affected everyone Chidi loves. And Chidi was blind to that, the only thing he ever thought he did wrong was use almond milk.
I just think Chidi’s character is one long running joke about a certain type of academic/intellectual and how they’ve elevated their indecisiveness and over-thinking to such a level that they’re not just useless, they qualify as evil.
It’s pretty much exactly the problem the character God faced in The Bible. He was, by any objective account, an asshole. Prone to capricious anger and imposing so many tiny rules on everyone that no one knew how to behave. And, because he ‘knew all’ all he could thing was “Why don’t you all just listen to me! Why…
I’ve talked about this on Deadspin a bit, but I have a close family member who plays football on a Power 5, Division 1 program. It is not a school that will ever play for a National Championship, but its a good school. One thing his dad, uncle, and I have instilled in him since the process of him being recruited in…
It’s not so much an indictment of athletics, but the idea that his participating in athletics is somehow an argument against him being a huge asshole.
It’s ironic that the NCAA peddles this nonsense about “student athletes” being paid in “education and character.” That’s literally the same argument that higher education makes when it justifies paying grad students and adjuncts slave wages and stops them from unionizing.