I didn't know that Abigail Fisher had changed her name.

It’s going to blow her mind when she learns that non-Hispanic people can speak Spanish and language proficiency is not solely based on race/national origin.

Plenty of white folks speak Spanish better than I do. George Takei recently posted a video where he spoke near-flawless Spanish, for ten minutes. This lady isn’t discriminated against. She’s just lazy.

According to her lawyers, Rosner felt that another instructor could assume responsibilities over the Spanish-teaching portion of the class, while she would focus on reading and writing.

You have no idea how fucking flattered I am by that assumption.

For the millionth time, anti-choice people: If you don’t agree with abortion, don’t have one. Period. And stop condescending to women, telling us that none of us would have abortions if we just had enough support and money to raise a child. If I got pregnant right now, I would abort. If I got pregnant after winning…

It’s interesting how when we bring up this country’s history of injustice against minorities of any kind people say “that happened in the past and why are you still talking about it?” Or my favorite, “you weren’t alive back then so it didn’t personally affect you.”

I love his implication that the fact that they were fed and clothed, in addition to not being (technically) directly employed by the US gov’t, somehow helps to counteract the fact that they were, you know, slaves.

I don’t remember who tweeted it, so I apologize for not giving credit, but there was a tweet last night along the lines of...

I don’t know why that wife and kid beater still has a job. Family values! Ugly old white man. Violent ass clown.

57, and holy shit this makes me so fucking happy. As the post states, there simply is no perfect candidate and she beats the hell out of almost all the other options we’ve had.

Women and minorities have been dutifully pulling the lever for white men for decades (when they were allowed to at all) and you never heard from them even a fraction of the hysterics that Sanders supporters have been displaying during the DNC because they didn’t get their #1 choice.

In no way empty symbolism. So many of the issues written about on this blog would not be a problem if only women were regarded as actual valued members of half of the human race.

To the diehard Bernie people crying in these comments and, according to my TV screen, literally crying at the convention:

I would gladly give up a year of my life for Miss Jerry to live long enough to attend President Clinton’s (aka Hillary) inauguration in 2017. God, please let her be there in the best of health. I haven’t really thought that much about the fact that a woman President is a milestone. It just seems so natural that a…

My mom said she saw what she thought she would never see in her lifetime. A black POTUS and now the 1st woman presidential nominee for the democratic party.

So excited to see that our new matriarch is punching boners in the greys already! YASSS KWEEEN SLAY THEIR ERECTIONSSSS

When I was six years old, my mom showed me Geraldine Ferraro on TV and explained why it was so important that a woman had been nominated as Vice President. I grew up believing a woman would be president one day. And now that day is imminent, and I could not be prouder to be an American right now.

Now she just has to defeat the worst misogynist I’ve seen in my lifetime. No pressure. And somehow do it without playing “the woman card,” whatever that is.