My then 15 year old had his new girlfriend over to the house. I’d only met her a couple of times. I was cooking in the kitchen and they were at the table playing a boardgame. He would things like “want me to make some Crystal Lite?” and she’d be like “whatever you want.” He’d ask what flavour, “whatever you want. I…

Many black liberals also found it stupid and self-defeating.

“The job of activism is not to be liked, or not to be polite”

I would agree with everything Kweli said, if they were disrupting every other candidate too. Or even most other candidates. Hell, SOME other candidates.

Are periods that big of a deal that they make somebody a badass for doing regular things?

I can’t get on board with taxpayers footing the bill for sex re-assignment surgery. However someone feels about their body, it is still functional, and there is no guarantee that surgery will solve their dysphoria or that it won’t lead to other complications. I think 30 years is probably enough time served for a bar…

You know. It’s easy to laugh at her, but I’m pretty sure I was equally melodramatic at 25 years old and 4:00 in the morning.

OK Americans against those evil unions, this is why unions were needed a hundred years ago and are still needed today. Without collective bargaining and labour laws, you’ll have 14 year olds, working 18 hour shifts, pulling coal out of the mines again. Don’t believe me, believe Scott.

She still has to remain professional in her position, and I think this is amazing and she is still conveying the person she remembers with dignity and hope to him. Makes me have hope for him that he will reflect with her remembering him “back when”, you know?

I mean, they aren’t tucked into a corner booth in a dimly lit diner confiding in each other. She’s at work.

I hope her kindness is a catalyst for him.

It’s why the clearance racks in my local stores are full of size XS and S clothing, but good luck finding any M, L or XL clothing on sale.

Don’t we know this already? It isn’t “the norm” to be a 0, but at that size the curves/shapes of your body don’t interfere with the lines of the clothes. If your business is clothing design, you want to show off your designs, not the body underneath.

I imagine there will be less opposition than there has been against trans women, since nobody thinks being female is an advantage in swimming.

I’m already ragey and exhausted and sad today. So reading “I feel like it’s mostly women that give other women a hard time” as a response to why feminism is still needed makes me want to break goddamn everything.

Muck raking at it’s finest right here. A few days will not make a life or death difference in a tumor. And they didnt fire her, she abandoned her job. I get it, she found a tumor and got scared, but she made a choice, they gave her time off to get it done and she changed it at the last minute with no warning.

I have black family members who look just like this woman, down to their freckles, and green and blue eyes, though their hair is darker. I wouldn’t have questioned her blackness.

I’ll make it really simple for you.