Particularly given the fact that in many poor Catholic countries, families are sentenced to abject poverty because of the Church’s position on birth control let alone abortion.

Meh, progress is progress. I don’t think people are applauding whatever minimum standards the church has set for itself, they are applauding the fact that it has set standards for itself. Like you said, its a centuries old institution with unchecked power, its under no actual requirements to move forward.

When a star/celebrity/famous-person-whose-name-you-know sees the relevance train leaving the station without them on it, that’s when the clothes come off.

...........ok Lea Michele. “Ok”

What? I haven’t proffered any opinion as to the dimensionality of rape. My only argument has been that the characterization of Hickey - or *any* potential real life villain as a single minded evil person is essentially always incorrect. The real world is messy, the people in it are messy. Our heroes aren’t as heroic…

“Byrd’s case can no longer be prosecuted because of the state’s statute of limitations on rape cases, which is 10 years if the rape is reported to police within a year, three years if it isn’t.”

In a related story, today Donald Trump nominated Matt Hickey as “Official White House Talent Scout,” a heretofore non-existent position in any presidential administration.

This is the America I want us to be.

BNL didn’t suck so hard until they tried to appeal to mass US audiences.

Beyonce has been brilliant in that she’s a canvass people can project their best vision onto. Up until this past year, she’s been a rather benign performer who, regardless of how one reveres her ability in that regard, has gone out of her way to keep herself as publically blank as possible. There was a period where…

Personal beliefs aside, that is an impressively thoughtful and work-intensive gift.

being more noticeable to predatory men makes a woman less healthy and more likely to die young.

Nobody is actively recommending weight gain. It’s a joking hyperbole. And people don’t typically “choose” to occupy a zone of humanity wherein they’re mocked, dehumanized, hated, ostracized, and made to feel disgusting constantly. It’s a crazy fucking brand of feminism to objectify women based on their size, and to…

Please fuck off.

Great piece. And may I recommend getting fat? I am completely invisible now. But nothing makes men angrier than a fat feminist who loves herself. Example number one - Lindy West. She rocks.

Yeah, no one actually believed that, it was just a movement of people trying to egg Trump into releasing his tax returns...

Movie about Liberals stuck without weapons against a larger force of heavily armed “Alt”-righters

You need to watch “The Green Room”

Okay there’s stupid both sides. But enough with the both sides are bad narrative!