That is a lovely idea. But he didn’t listen to “expert” authority figures, apparently (like the BBC). It took decades and running out of all possibilities on his own to convince him. That process won’t work with anti-vaxxers.

I have watched a grand total of 20 minutes of this show, in pieces; almost everything I know about these people is from the Internet.

But is it normal for this Gothard cult for the women to starve themselves while pregnant? I thought they actually do want all those babies so they can take over the world; it’s not just…

Komen needs to shrivel up and die. The Republicans’ reason may be gross, but there’s no reason to mourn this outcome.

Also, to be more generalist about it, there’s no reason to fund any breast cancer “awareness” campaign. The best of them are of minimal value, and most are corrupt, self-interested and pretending to…

It’s tried and true at this point. There’s no real downside to getting it. With our terrible health care system, this could save her life in her early adult years, if her access to routine care is difficult.

I was hesitant, because at least when we did it, it was incredibly expensive, and our horrible, expensive…

Well, if the sister HAD been holding her back, then speed might make sense. But there’s simply no evidence for that. If there was ANYTHING, you know they would have whipped it out by now, since they’ve resorted to filming her in assisted living facility.

My MIL (89) has SEVERE dementia — like in a specialized memory care facility with locked elevators, she hasn’t recognized me in almost year, we were thrilled when she recognized her sister, bad. Yet she can, on a good day, seem like her old self for a few minutes. I wouldn’t watch the video, because even if, as…

HOLY CRAP THAT’S GREAT.

I know she’s supposed to be pretty smart, but she’s also a super rich heir married to another super rich heir. Those people tend to take care of themselves only TOO well.

And yeah, if she has read the rest of her quote, then...

This kind of thing is fairly common. For her to admit now that her husband is a monster is to admit that her entire adult life was financed by a monster, that all her comfort and pleasure was the result of rape and brutality, that her offspring share the blood of a predator. She has been invested in the Cosby brand…

I can think of several useful steps, but they require robust governments that conceive and execute regulations. One: require all organizations that take government funds (so EVERY lab and lots of companies) to achieve full gender equality at each employment level in ten years. Two: Stop pretending that we need more…

I didn’t see this before I wrote my next reply. Yeah, the topless part is what makes it misogynist.
Ye Olde Human’s shots of half naked Cavill and armored WW got me thinking about another aspect of this. Your uniform communicates something to your enemy. Yes, part of why they put clothing on Henry’s Cavill’s beautiful…

Hulk and Thing by definition can’t be objectified in the same way; they’ve been made physically non-attractive/non-human in their transformations. And if we’re going to claim that Greco-Roman tradition is relevant (questionable, for many reasons, but let’s go with it) she’d have a longer skirt and something going over…

And yet he’s covered. That’s where the complaint comes from. None of the male superheros run around in short shorts and a tank top. Why not? They’re invulnerable!

My parents had a window unit in our house that they were too WASPy to ever use — even when it was over 100 degrees and like 9000% humidity and the asphalt was gooey.

Meanwhile I spent the summer nights as a kid weeping from the heat, desperately taking “cool” bathes at 2:00 a.m. which unsurprisingly were not that…

I don’t know the official term for it — probably some aspect of cognitive dissonance — but I get the phenomenon. To admit that she experiences it will cause her pain. She would then have to acknowledge to herself that she is “lower” and in the world she loves, rejected and abused. How much more comfortable it must be…

Gotta disagree. It’s not really the picture composition, although I agree that she’s doing sexy face and they made sure to show her exposed skin. But the casting is depressing. She can’t act, and nothing about her reads warrior. I understand the argument about her having magical extra-tough skin, but that’s true of…

I also think the underlying terror over any sense of autonomy, economic security and personal power being eroded plays into this. I know a lot of anti-Vaxers are quite privileged, but it’s the privileged who most experience the pain of losing it. There’s this culture surrounding the idea that if you can make your…

Well, you can improve the work and you can put energy into making a community. In other words, you can focus on the process. But yeah, you can’t guarantee any kind of outcome. You just can’t.

Also lucky and/or major connections.

It’s a myth that focusing on the work will make you successful. But I think Poehler isn’t ladling up that toxic pablum. She’s saying you can’t count on being famous, so focus on the work itself and the building of your own community — what you can control. That’s all true, but if…

I wasn’t about to give up my last name. Mr. Sky contemplated switching to it, because he’s awesome like that (and his name is long, hard to spell and hard to pronounce, while mine is trumped only by “Smith” and “Jones” for Anglo ease of use), but he was the last of his family with that name (all other branches having…