If I want to reform racist or corrupt firefighters

It’s just kinda galling to watch the people who’re freaking out over her (admittedly pathos-based-and-triggering) phrasing also praise Trump’s categorization of our undocumented immigration situation as “an invasion” (which is another pathos-steeped loaded label specifically designed to elicit an emotional response).

It’s nice to see Warren get some coverage here. Her HBCU plan got a couple of posts. I hope The Root will give her a closer look. She’s the only candidate in the primary who has managed to change my opinion of them for the better. Everyone else is holding steady (Harris, Beto) or dropped (anyone doing a Fox News town…

Even for a politician this is too much. I suspect he’ll start sinking. Saw Symone Sanders trying to explain his flip flop and it was pathetic. I had so much hope for her at one time.

The debates will definitely be telling, and I don’t think Joe Biden will come out the other side looking very good. His current popularity stems largely from Obama nostalgia and his time as VP, but people forget that Biden is far more moderate than Obama ever was (which is why he was chosen in the first place), and…

I walked a 10 k while 23 weeks pregnant last weekend, and have never felt more like an endurance athlete! It was still not actually very MUCH like an endurance athlete. I more felt like an old Barbie doll whose legs were loose and might pop off at any minute, except also fat. But then there were also endorphins and…

Counterpoint: No, he doesn’t. He’s a genuinely good person who is imperfect, like everyone is, but is actually willing to learn and grow.

Shoutout to Black Girl Masculine for coming through with the callout! B/c changing everyone around the predator don’t do shit about his predation except give him new people to prey upon?

To my understanding, Lena Waithe is a big proponent of the “MeToo” movement. I have read where she is an unwavering supporter of the movement. Which in turn boggles my mind, because for her to have such an “I should have never let anyone else handle this” comment to me is disingenuous. If you are SO in touch with the…

Far be it from me to talk back to the “adult in the room” and the “grown up” but do you really believe the stuff you’re saying because you have been rendered clueless by privilege or is this just concern-trolling? Feels like the latter but in the event that your comments are sincere (while at the same time managing…

Nope, men are trying to take away our reproductive rights so we’ll be trapped at home with babies and out of the workplace. They want to go back to the time when women “knew their place” and that place was at home. They want to leave all that baby rearing to us while the men work and provide and control every aspect…

Quite frankly, I am sick and tired of babies being automatically associated with women. It’s bad enough our careers suffer because we’re the primary care givers when kids get sick.

Neither do I. It doesn’t sound like these changes are being made at the expense of women—photos and reading materials aimed at men are being provided in addition to those aimed at women, not in place of them. One thing that is not changing as fast as it should is the assumption that women rule the domestic sphere and…

I’d like to see research on how having ob/gyn office waiting rooms filled with images of dads and men affects women’s involvement in the prenatal period. “An increased involvement in prenatal care” just sounds like dudes nagging their pregnant partners to me. I don’t need more women’s experiences turned paternalistic.

I get the author’s frustration, in that a number of men kinda assume they don’t really need to do much until the baby is out, or even until the baby is walking.

Any little step counts and frankly there’s nothing wrong with making people feel welcome. Men in the United States are generally not expected to take much interest in raising their children beyond providing for the family and being the “fun” parent. 

Again, it’s the civilian, not the “trained peace officer” who is expected to think clearly, act responsibly, don’t do anything too aggressive, and stay the fuck calm.

Their unions are complicit as well.

Ain’t that the fuck of it, you’ve gotta have the cool the cops should have, in order to chill them out so they don’t shoot you. Somehow the burden of ‘staying cool in a stressful situation’ gets passed on to the ‘suspect’.

I agree. And I wouldn’t do it as a single woman or if I had children.