No. This is absolutely not simple mockery of Pence’s love for his wife. There was no real mockery about the Obamas obvious love or that of W and Laura Bush. However, Pence’s refusal to EVER be alone with a woman is a serious problem. This stems from a sort of Christian Conservatism that refuses to see men and women…

I’m sure most of his dates with her start with him blowing her up and patching any leaks she developed after he shoved her between the mattress ans boxspring after their last date.

Hottest of takes; Reese’s kind of suck. It’s subpar chocolate mixed with subpar peanut butter that’s been shelf-stabilized to within an inch of its life.

Every Irish woman I know is working incredibly hard to repeal the 8th. What are Americans Catholics doing?

Back in the late 1950s, my mother became pregnant out of wedlock. She was in her 30s at the time and owned a business on her own. Hard as it seems to believe today, she knew that if she had that child on her own (she didn’t want to marry the father) there was a good chance she could lose everything - her business, her…

We have resigned ourselves, I think, to knowing that we’ll never see the end of these revelations in our lifetimes. I grew up in the first generation of young Irish mothers who were not immediately forced to marry, emigrate or give up their children if they got “into trouble”. Thankfully I was never in that terrifying…

Yeah, my husband has his PhD and works in academia, he has PhD after his name in signature line on emails because that’s a thing in academia but I’ve never seen him sign Dr. or be referred to as Dr. outside of an academic setting. He said he thinks it’s dickish to do so.

The correct answer is to let him compete against other boys. If bigotry won’t let him do that and he is forced to compete against girls, then technically taking testosterone is doping and he shouldn’t be allowed to compete.

“the uniform of the intelligentsia.”

As an immigrant seeing these stats (and peoples comments on threads sometimes) is truly disheartening. I’m not affected by these bans, but whether an immigrant or not – not being affected by it was literally just a result of winning the birth lottery. And being a brown, it’s still quite disheartening seeing what…

It seems hypocritical to keep referring to it as an egg and not a chicken.

In my estimation the protests have gone exceptionally well. The need for protest has not just begun, but there was a yearning to push back and make a big statement against this new president, and to undermine the occasion of his inauguration. Success. The women’s movement spearheaded it, but everybody joined in, and…

I’m sort of baffled by the characterizations of these marches as being ‘white women things’. The one I went to in Cleveland seemed incredibly inclusive. There were Black Lives Matter people, gay people, trans-rights and trans people, people with disabilities, young people, old people, everyone was represented.…

I wondered about that, it’s so cliche. This brand of traditional sexism and general bigotry is just so boring, and it insists upon itself, the way it’s all so pat and fits right in like a glove. It exhausts me, just, like, why do you people still exist, die off already.

Trump supporters are always telling his detractors that they should accept the situation and respect the office. Here is someone doing exactly that, and they fire him. Can they not go five minutes without conteadicting themselves?

This is a good analogy, not just for this situation but about many of the ways in which Trump is transitioning into power. Tyrion, Jaime & Tywin all rued the fact that their idiot sister and Joffrey dismissed Selmy because they knew he “lent whoever he served honor”. In an inauguration where the President has…

That’s what they told Gawker when Peter Thiel and Hogan came after them LMAO. But yeah you kind of have to piss or get off the pot. I think Tom’s just trying to pee without getting the seat wet so to speak.

I’m only a couple of years younger :/

I loved GM so much. I broke down telling my husband this news. GM and I share a birthday though he is a little older. He was one of those singers I always wanted to see live but never did. This one got me, like Alan Rickman. Such a talent. Such a gift he shared with us.

We were listening to Band Aid in the car on our way to my sister’s house today. I told my daughter each singer’s name as they sang. I fucking loved that sentiment, a charity song.