As a longtime bleeding heart liberal, this article is so unbelivably self-serving and disingenuous.

Seriously. These images of children and dying and medical interventions and "invisible suffering" are not convenient metaphors for some writer, comfortable in her desk chair, to craft some moralistic allegory: they are the realities of this disease, of how it is handled in the US/Europe vs. Africa, of how medicine has…

I fucking hate this book- I have ever since I was a kid. Even my mom agreed that the part where the mother climbs through the son's window to rock him in his sleep is über creepy. Ugh.

Yo that story is so sad. Straight up heartbreaking. Like, great, now I'm going to bed depressed.

Parenthood, and specifically motherhood, presented as a lifetime of personality-free patience and self-sacrifice, with a side of creepy stalking and poor boundaries when your child is an adult.

So many Children's Bibles. And I would get them multiple years in a row FROM THE SAME PERSON. I mean all the stories are basically the same, but my one aunt seemed determined to get me Every. Last. One.

Not necessarily hated hated, but it always irked me that the Berenstain Bears were named Mama, Papa, Brother, and Sister fucking Bear. And, like, that was their actual names. Why??? The other bears in the world had names. Lizzy Bruin, etc. Just so annoying. Every time another character in the books that wasn't a…

I recently picked up a Berenstein Bears book at a friend's house — I had fond memories of those books but it was actually really crappy. From what I can remember the plot was that Sister Bear and Mother Bear go on a strike against doing all the housework, but then the house turns into a shithole and eventually the…

Benefit more than women of color =/= benefit as much as white men.

Well, if you want to be specific, yes, there's an entire algebraic equation to determine how much the government wants to be your spouse. But you only need take a quick look at how rape is treated by law enforcement to see that white women still get crapped on regularly. It's far from the only example, but it is the…

The statistic doesn't say that women "overwhelmingly vote republican." It said that they "now tilt slightly toward the GOP. That is a huge difference. And that was only in the last election.

Okie dokie. Whatever gets you through the day. I feel pretty damn powerful as a woman without unnecessary capitalization, but I'm also aware that not everyone flinches when reading Seemingly random Capitalized Words. YMMV. I will say one final thing. If you are telling people to research and "check the statistics" in…

Oooooo and Ecologist with a capital "E". How could I have been so stupid? Oh, I forgot, I live in the USA and "tend not to be the brightest." Yeah, insults totally help your case. Also, stop capitalizing White Women like that. It's White women, just like Black women. White Women make me think you are being facetious.

My point is that you can't (well you can, but its myopic) make huge sweeping generalizations about an entire group of people in the way that you did. The data from 2012 indicates that while R's did gain a few WW voters, they by no means have enough to claim that all WW vote for R's - it's still split evenly enough…

Ecology =/= politics, so I'm not sure why you brought that into the conversation.

Yes, it is only white women votes and not gerrymandering that is the issue...

The "Say Yes to the Dress" part was so absurd that for a moment I thought it was a Daily Show skit with actors I've never seen before.

Meanwhile, the Republicans are scratching their heads, complaining that no matter WHAT they do, wimmenz are impossible to please! "We made these commercials JUST for them!"

You are raging against the piece because you identify with the hobbies/interests mentioned but a major aspect of Cool Girlism is suppressing your uncool wants, needs and desires. Being a Cool Girl is agreeing to do something your boyfriend wants to do even though you find it humiliating/hurtful/whatever, because if…

She's not actually saying that it's always an act when women happen to have interests and qualities that are traditionally masculine, though, or that a woman can't actually like those things and be hot. It's about the pressure on women to behave in certain ways that are really about shitting all over traditional…