Not for nothing, but I've watched and read Beloved in high school (I was 16), which are both extremely difficult to get through b/c of the rape and violence. If 12 YAS was just a movie with gratuitous rape and violence, then I would be outraged. But it's about a time in history that gets routinely whitewashed, so I…

This is why I hate so much when people pretend that representation doesn't matter. It matters. When you never see reflections of yourself as worthy, you logically conclude that you are not worthy. It matters.

when you capitalize "it" instead of using italics or quotes it makes me think she's going to be installing a SANS certificate on the exchange server later today, not that she's very popular and talked about.

Don't get me started on child custody or child support payments. They want very strict gender roles (i.e. women stay home to take care of children) and then scream murder when the courts award custody to the mother and the financial support that comes with it. If you dare to point out that you can't have it both…

To dismiss the KKK as merely racist and extreme would be to ignore the fact that their beliefs are shared by a troublingly large percentage of the American population.

Valar Morghulis

Every MRA dude I know is either divorced or a "Nice Guy" (TM). I can't imagine anyone with positive female relationships in their life would be an MRA.

Are there any individuals within the MRAs that don't come across as bitter divorcees or sleazy single minded asshats?

I chose not to because I didn't feel like giving up even more of my body in service to a baby. *shrug* I feel like women are supposed to need some romantic/terrible reason not to breastfeed (not unlike the idea that women who choose abortion are supposed to be tortured by the fact), but I do not. I just didn't feel…

My sister had twins. She was spending the majority of her day feeding one, or the other and then pumping for one or the other, and neither was getting enough milk. Formula allowed her and her husband to take double duty and also sleep (which is also an essential element of raising kids). Using the formula also allowed…

No, no one is defending it, but people sure seem to have much more compassion, and much sooner, when a white woman is affected by it. Then it becomes important.

I love how people are being so sympathetic about the "racism" directed towards Kim Kardashian for being in a relationship with a Black man, but just accept everything actual Black people go through as a part of life. Poor Kim, right?

Morpho butterfly? Came to my mind when I saw it, too.

As a scientist, I will go on record as saying that if you don't breastfeed, you are ruining your child's future. They will never accomplish anything substantial in their lives and you are LITERALLY HITLER.

I'm looking forward to a calm and polite discussion about this. Articles about breastfeeding, birthing, and child-rearing bring out the best in everyone.

That is, in fact, the reality of black women, who are considered easy regardless of who they are or are not dating, thinking, wearing or whatever. I think white women in interracial relationships are thus tarred with that particular taint. Men in relationships with black women who aren't of color (in particular)…

I am increasingly convinced that Kris Jenner is sacrificing her own reputation and taking the fall as the money-hungry pimp momma to serve as a lightning rod so that her daughters are seen as more likeable. Kim is a ridiculously wealthy grown woman with a newborn child, and this is how she chooses to spend her…

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"I am
sooooo
soooooo
sooooooo
fuckedafied."

Luckily, her lawyer is also her Funkdafiduciary, so this should end up alright.