Whenever I read the crazy shit that passes for Mormon dogma, my gut instinct is to think “Is this what got edited out from the first draft of the Handmaid’s Tale?”

This. Nothing was wrong with the outfit, it was the editing that made the cover controversial.

Hypocrisy is the base tenet of the Right.

Yup. Congress is going to make this poor young girl relive her trauma only for republicans to do absolutely nothing to make retraumizing her worth it. This is what it has come to. GOP adults need to hear trauma porn from kids, just to make them feel something about protecting kids in schools. It’s unjustifiable.

seriously proposing that a solution to school shootings is to reduce the number of doors

As to be expected, speaker after speaker trotted out every excuse imaginable for the recent shooting

If we’re going to balk every time we have the opportunity to make any changes because we might lose political control, what do we need political control for? We obviously aren’t doing anything with it. 

Most of us in the US get 0 days off for maternal leave. Leave for the other parent, if any, isn’t even a whisper of an idea in most places here. You’re expected to take a ‘sick day’ for giving birth and then show right back up to work.

Really subtle stuff, how women *have* to be the ones using contraceptives or else they would be ‘demanding’ towards their male partners if they ever expected a man to hold such responsibility. And if it is *possible* that some of these 1900 women were irresponsible, you seem to be asserting that it is reasonable to…

This “people who refuse to be responsible” line is complete and utter bullshit. You may not realize it, because you’re parroting whatever talking head fed it to you, but it is. In your mind, every woman who gets an abortion is a slut, probably a high-school dropout, known all around town as the village bicycle. You…

Well you are factually wrong about the reasons people seek abortions, and it would take literally minutes to prove that for yourself if you *ever* cared about hearing anything that contradicts your precious beliefs. And you are entitled and fully free to have beliefs that place you firmly against abortion, that is…

Police have historically never taken harassment cases seriously, and take internet harassment even less seriously than that.

Granted, if you see something say something. BUT it is not the responsibility of a literal 15 year old child to make up for the failings of an entire government. And what would have happened if she had called the authorities? We know the cops just stood outside the school, unwilling to risk their lives while the…

When Philando Castile was shot, I started hearing-as a defense, “The cops just want to get home safely at night”, to which....I’m sorry, that’s not the job you signed up for.  You do have to risk your life, that’s part of your job.  I don’t mean to be cold-hearted, but I don’t know where or why we got the notion that…

Oh yeah, we’re making such hard fucking demands like, “Please sir, I’d like to be able to make my own choices about what I’m doing with my own body” and “Hey, maybe take a stand that wanting to murder people like us simply for living our lives is wrong” Such terrible things to demand of any company and any person.

Jesu…

Counter point.

One side in this equation wants to force people who can bear children to give up bodily autonomy and they’re willing to do so by murdering doctors, bombing clinics, and harassing anyone even approaching any sort of planned parenthood clinic. The other side is stating that people who can bear children should have…

The gaming industry and gaming community as a whole has always had issues with fully recognizing women and people across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum as human beings who deserve all of the respect and privileges afforded to cis-het men.

You don’t get to be neutral about when you think the basic right of bodily autonomy counts. Either you think a woman has the same rights as a corpse who hasn’t marked themselves as an organ donor, or you think the corpse should have more rights.

I’ll assume you’re making these arguments in good faith