I’m not sure I’d agree that it’s disingenuous to talk about early abortions and late-term abortions together. Plenty of early abortions are done for the sake of health, especially for ectopic pregnancies and cases of partial miscarriages. Plenty of these are wanted pregnancies, just like late-term abortions. The…

I’m not sure about this take. If we’re framing removal of a dead fetus as somehow less of an abortion than removal of a live one, the debate still turns this into a moral issue. I agree that these “clear” cases should rarely, if ever, be debated at all, but I think trying to make them “not an abortion” is a rhetorical…

Not trying to pile on - people here have given you great answers and resources! I just thought I’d add my older sister’s story to these perspectives. She was about 7 months along with her first, planned, and desperately wanted pregnancy when she felt the baby stop moving. On the advice of her mother (she’s my half…

There are facts you haven’t considered, either through negligence or through willful ignorance. If you actually cared enough to do some research on this subject, you’d know that Smolett received a death threat before this attack. A stalking situation changes the context entirely. If the attack was premeditated, it…

I’m a former Little House girl myself. It was all the rage at my Catholic elementary school. I eventually found the Dear America books, though, and even today I think they’re far superior. They’re the epistolary novels, written by fictionalized girls ages 10-15, set in specific time periods of US history. One I can…

Right? He sounds like one of those YouTubers who gets barked at by a neighbor’s dog and titles a video about it “I WAS ATTACKED BY WILDLIFE!!!”

So I’m seeing a lot of incel-like dogwhistles in your response and I have to admit that I react strongly to them. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt for now, mainly because your response is polite overall.

I mean, it’s in several of the videos of the incident. And Phillips himself spoke about it right after it happened, so I’m not really sure where these “conflicting reports” are coming from.

If you read interviews with Phillips (the “Native American guy”), he says he approached them to try to deescalate the situation. They then began to harass him, apparently misunderstanding his intentions. So it definitely started out in a confusing way, but surely you can see why chanting “build the wall” at a Native…

Frequent blinking is widely considered a sign of lying, js.

I think they aren’t mentioned as instigators because the teens weren’t responding to them. They were responding to Phillips. If they had a problem with those guys shouting, maybe they should have taken it up with them? Not someone who was trying to get between them to relieve the tension. 

I think we’ve let the right control the language of this discussion for too long. It’s not about life, it’s not really even about privacy so much. In fact, I think part of the reason Roe v. Wade has been so vulnerable to the right’s control of the language is because it centered the issue of privacy. To be sure,…

I’m in the same boat - waiting to hear about a job at my alma mater no less! The HR team already admitted the start date will be pushed back at least a month now (from Feb 7 to March 7) and naturally my lease runs out at my current place 300 miles away at the end of February. I just want to plan my life!

Sure, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t strive for the ideal of holding guilty parties socially accountable. That’s the way our culture works now, yes, but it’s neither healthy nor logical. This woman seems content with the way things are - that’s her issue. “Just live in fear, women!”

The Temperance movement was actually pretty closely aligned with the first wave feminist movement and the abolition movement. They reasoned that drunk men often harmed women, so they decided men shouldn’t drink at all. It’s not the best strategy, but at least it holds men accountable.

So women legally drinking are...what in this analogy? It doesn’t make sense.

I’ll grant that not drinking is one strategy. After a childhood sexual assault, I am understandably very careful about being in control of my body. As a result, I have never been drunk. The most I have ever had was two drinks at a time. I simply don’t enjoy the way it makes me feel. Similarly, I’ve never gotten high.…

I’d also add that in these discussions about drunkenness and sexual assault, it’s always women who are told not to drink. If men are the ones behaving badly when drunk, why is there so little discussion about how to prevent them from drinking?

It is what it is! I’m now up for consideration for a job at my alma mater - so not a bad place to be.

Late to the discussion here, but my mom is very similar. She’s always had favorites among her 3 biological children (she also has 2 step children) and our relationship was contentious during my last 3 years of living at home. She routinely violated my privacy and, when she found out private information she didn’t want…