JezLangley
JezLangley
JezLangley

He's like five years younger than Clare - she's 28, he's 23. He's also the youngest of the guys in the group that found Clare.

It is SO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD. Except for how Dougal looks, it's all like it was pulled from my head. Oh my god so good. SO GOOD. GIVE ME MORE.

I think it was yesterday....the writers posted a joint protest. You can probably still scroll back and find it

Exactly. We went from 1 income households to 1,5 and 2 income households (while still earning about the same amount of money). The winners? Big companies and rich people, mostly. Certainly not women in general.

Well, there seems to be a pushback agains "having it all". A lot of women these days would like to just be respected for staying home and taking care of the kids. Which is fine, but not really what feminism originally wanted for them.

*virtual hug* Daycare should seriously be paid for by the state, like public school. I don't know what else to tell you except that you sound like a great mom who loves her baby and does the best for him/her! Brava to you, my dear.

I guess you're right. But as a working woman with a 6-month at home, I hope I can be forgiven due to extreme fatigue. I often lament the fact that we need even the piddling amount of my paycheck left over after I pay for daycare (which is EXPENSIVE) to survive. How I wish I could stay home instead of having strangers

I think that person was being ironic... you are totally right about what «rights» women were given (or not, in fact). A middle-class family now needs two incomes to live at the same level of comfort that a single-income family did 50 years ago. This is so depressing.

So, what? We just let the species die? Or do only rich people who can afford to have someone stay home be allowed to have children? I mean, what exactly is your point?

But see, that's the lie. Women weren't given anything. The erosion of the power of the unions and increased global competition made paying men wages with which they could support entire families less and less common. For the most part, women weren't "invited" into the labor market. We were shoved. First into the

The children that women have now will be cogs making money for their employers in 25 years. Suck it up, business owners, these are your future employees.

In Morehead City? Apologies to the fine people of that town but PFFFHAHAHAHAAA no.

Given the fact that this was done in the US—in North Carolina—and that the symbol is known here as an identifier of white supremacists and Nazis (you know, people who tried to wipe out the Jews and were/are a-ok with wiping out all people of color), I think the idea that this could mean good luck is ludicrous. At

I highly doubt someone was using it as a good luck symbol. It's almost certainly some teenager just drawing a swastika to be an asshole.

Jesus Christ. Stop. We all know what a swastika means in American society. Regardless of what it meant before, it has come to mean a specific thing. It wasn't meant as a Tibetan good luck symbol, and that's not the connotation it carries. I truly could not give less of a shit what it meant before — it means something

Prior to Kinja, I headed the trollpatrol team for Jezebel, as many people here know. We dealt with rape gifs, violent pornography, racism, and harassment regularly, but there was a system in place with which to have it reported and dealt with. Banning didn't usually result in the same person immediately making a new

Sigh, I just don't get it. (BTW, totally knew it was you, a Southerner, Kelly, when I read "slap out of patience." Love that expression.)

For what it's worth, I want to apologize to our readers who are forced to interact with these violent gifs regularly. The point of Kinja is to create a better platform for discussion and those discussions CANNOT happen when you're inundated by such traumatizing material. It's this person's goal to shutdown

What bothers me about this is that we don't record IP addresses so as to protect these burner accounts for people who might want to tip us anonymously about a story. So the company is seemingly placing a priority on making these hypothetical tipsters feel safe over the safety of the actual real live women who write

The last thing I want to do is give this giant and troubling waste of our goddamn time the acknowledgment that is clearly so desperately craved. But the fact that I must suppress my pride and bring attention to this in a plea for support from my own employer makes it all the more ridiculous.