I know some of these people (I too live near Marin). Here’s what I see.

I wish I could remember where I read it, but a pediatrician I came across was of the opinion that if there was a way to label a vaccine “organic” and “all natural”, then charge more for it you would eliminate all the problems with upper income people not vaccinating.
In their opinion, it was only sort of a problem with…

I just got into a full on argument with my SAHM cousin yesterday about this very thing (no health insurance, married very young, started having babies right away). I suspect it’s because they can’t actually afford health insurance or to pay for them, she also doesn’t work outside the home so she spends her days…

It’s not a small risk. For most people, it’s an infinitesimal risk. There is no nuance to vaccination. If the individual is immunocompetent and not allergic to the components of the vaccine, then the individual should be vaccinated, child or adult.

To be fair, due to how a capitalist society functions, and with the privilege of being white. It’s quite easy to have no reason to care for others when you have everything handed to you just for those reasons listed. No challenge = no growth, and eventually, no soul. As a cynicist would say: Life is meant to be a…

The anti-vax movement also has a lot to do with feelings of superiority - which is an extremely common byproduct of being wealthy and white. They think of themselves as discerning parents who care more about their children than others who haven’t done their 30 minutes of anti-vax propaganda Google research. If 99% of…

Waddaya bet that the “appropriate measures will be taken to ensure that something like this never happens again” means that they’ll fire the worker so it will never happen to her again.

I’m a nanny in Silverlake, a rich white hippie neighborhood of LA. Here is how little precious Eggs, Clover and Tomsawyer (these are all real names of kids) live: they don’t have to wear shoes because “Silverlake is clean” (that’s what one of the moms said to me after her child walked on the street for six blocks…

So, correct me if I did my math wrong, but 3 days is the same as 72 hours right? So actually she DID come close to the limits of human endurance. Right?

Roger Stone, alive, compares his treatment to that of Osama bin Laden and Pablo Escobar, dead.

There’s an Extra Virgin Oval Office joke to be made but my mind can’t come up with it at the end of the work day. Anyway, take your star.

I’m going to be that never once did it come to these mens’ mind that the bigger problem is how many women will decline a one-on-one meeting with a man because the man might decide to sexually assault her.

One of my wife’s facebook friends shared a story this weekend about her abortion experience.

Bringing up two boys, who would naturally want to look up to some big tough guy on TV or the movies, it was so great to have Terry Crews to point to. Even before coming out with his story of assault, Crews espoused points of view that were exciting to highlight to the boys. Crews recognized that it wasn’t enough just…

Terry Crews is a national treasure. 

I can’t say anything that hasn’t already been said about domestic violence and how we continue to fail to take it seriously enough  

Those aren’t blinders, it’s the constitutional right to direct the upbringing of one’s children. You really couldn’t do a better job of supporting the author’s point that this is a reproductive rights issue, reading all that and responding with “we really should make it easier to do involuntary termination of parental…

This is a really interesting article, and I’m glad to learn more about this. But I also want to know more about the babies that don’t get adopted and who grow up in foster care. To be frank, from the snippets I’ve heard, foster care seems to set kids and adolescents—especially non-white ones—up for total failure.…

And yet...the production company isn’t being blamed. The surviving Queen members, who held all the power in this film production, aren’t being blamed. The studio isn’t being blamed.

Maybe Rami Malek doesn’t read Gawker or take that site as any sort of serious news reporting? They did go down after refusing to remove the Hogan sex tape after all. So spare me the whole “Gawker was lookign out for these kids!!” when your own fucking manager at the website said he’d post videos of underage children…