So, you’re advocating for guaranteed minimum income, equal pay, laws that prevent companies from discriminating against pregnant employees and parents? Unlimited time off for parent conferences and child illness, publicly subsidized on-site daycare, yearlong parental leave, universal healthcare, free public college,…

You’re not being “provocative”. You’re being dishonest. You’re a big ol’ liar. Reproductive health access is not a “death cult.” You know what’s a “death cult”? Anti-choice advocates like yourself. The movement you are promoting is indeed moving towards forcing women to die so that their brain-dead fetuses can “grow”…

So, what are you waiting for? Come join those of us who want to save the nation. Feel the Bern!

Seriously, you seem to already know your own mind. In case this helps:

a) She is implicated both by her marriage and her own actions in all the major policy trends that have destroyed most of the country while enriching the…

Thanks for the compliment, Beatrice.

Love your name, btw. It is, of course, the patriarchy that poisons the maiden.

Abortion isn’t “killing a baby”. It just isn’t.

Most abortions would happen very, very early in the process, without all the obstructions anti-choicers put in place. Most late abortions are because of tragedy — the mother is dying, or the fetus can’t survive outside the womb, or something else awful. The claim that…

I haven’t read it in years and years, but IIRC, yes. Isn’t that where we’re heading?

But if you could only pick one?

No, I’m saying I couldn’t find a useful chart. Show me an up-to-date, 2015 chart from an objective source, and I’ll gladly retract my statement, which was based on a bunch of reporting from various organizations throughout the summer. But note, all I did said was that fracking is underrepresented by that 2009 chart.…

In a world with no contraception and no access to abortion, women will also lose the right to refuse sex — can’t refuse if he controls all the money, too. Men who sign on to these kinds of paradigms assume it gets them a sex and housework slave.

It doesn’t actually work that well for the guys at the bottom of the…

I just finishing typing basically the same comment! I wrote “anti-abortion,” but they have successfully stigmatized abortion, AND really, they want to do more than just eliminate abortion. “Forced birth” is really the most accurate — they would claim you still have the “choice” to never have sex except when lawfully…

Also, women’s economic, social, intellectual and literal freedom. You keep a woman pregnant and with numerous offspring, she can’t go to school, get or keep a decent job, escape an abusive marriage — all her options in life diminish.

I would love to see Jezebel institute a site standard of not using “pro-life” as a term for people actively pursuing policies that would kill people. Just because they label themselves that doesn’t mean the rest of us have to agree to it when it is demonstrably inaccurate. “Anti-abortion” is more factually accurate,…

I realize. But that’s what I was getting at. Pointing at George Clooney — particularly while discussing a story about actual billionaires further exploiting their indentured employees to increase the billionaires’ profit — by claiming that it will slightly increase the employees’ salary base — is an unuseful…

It’s Tom Selleck that was stealing water from fire hydrants in giant tanks (for YEARS) to keep his estate/”avocado farm” green.

I don’t think Clooney particularly gasses on about climate change, does he? Which puts him above people like DiCaprio, who hectors the poors and ostentatiously drives a Prius, when he’s not…

I think personalizing his behavior to that degree is a mistake. It’s the whole “11th dimensional chess” idea, which is basically just a varient on the Magical Negro myth, which he has clearly exploited, but this simply isn’t how he operates.

He’s a creature of elite institutions — particularly finance and Chicago real…

It looks like that’s from 2009. Fracking has gotten exponentially worse since then. (Thanks, Obama — sadly, not in the jokey sense.) But I can’t find a reliable chart right now that illustrates it. I don’t dispute that agriculture is the dominant user, though — and a lot is for luxury foods shipped overseas, too.

With…

Oh, for fuck’s sake.

As an LA resident already struggling between my love of watching football and my hatred for the league, for FUCK’S SAKE.

What/when is that chart from ? Because I thought fracking was having a significant impact on water supply — usage, not just contamination.

Also, for those you watching at home, California’s “agriculture” category includes livestock.

Trust me, they did no chores.

Also wondering if Citizens United is going to backfire similarly. They get way more billionaire money, but it’s seeking optimal servants, which is also driving discourse, to the right, towards unpopular positions even in the R voting base, and towards very narrow billionaire self-interest.

I’m with those who this…