I crashed my car twice, got a double ear infection, and got my laptop stolen in the same month.

I agree.

Oh come on, asking someone to have empathy is not misogynistic. Everyone should have empathy. Just because it is something unfairly expected out of women but not men doesn't mean we have to start being jerks. Do we want less empathy in the world? Because to me that is one of the patriarchy's biggest problems.

Sometimes when I read replies to questions like this, questions that are probably innocent but just might be a way of trying to subtly discredit/sow doubt about an issue, I understand why people like you are taken more seriously than some of the people who responded to you.

Yeah, honestly, it just reeks of feminists trying to co-opt a great civil rights hero for their purposes. Which, of course, anti-abortion people did first, but that doesn't make it right for feminists to do it. He did say some feminist things on birth control, and that's good, no problem using those quotes to get your…

Looks to me like she made that face over what her husband said, not Boehner. Which is why I think Gawker and all its partner sites need to stop using the phrase and variations of "throw a shade" until they learn how to use it correctly.

Another commenter said it was a French thing. I've heard it from one or two English people. When I said many I don't mean the majority. I am not extremely informed on the subject of European stereotypes and I am sure they vary from country to country. It's just a thing I've heard and maybe I've happened to hear a…

Because the populations in the US that speak Spanish are not European, they are mostly from Mexico, Central America, and Cuba. Though these countries have European origins even people who are mostly white in their respective country of origin are not considered white in the US or Canada. So because Cruz speaks Spanish…

I think you are making huge leaps here. While I don't doubt jingoistic bigoted Americans do think along the lines you said (though I've never heard one exclude Canada from being white), plenty of average Americans with reasonably non-racist beliefs hold racial misconceptions about actors like Penelope Cruz.

But we are talking about the US specifically where if you come from Mexico or South America and are of mostly European ancestry you are still seen as a person of color. You may be treated differently than a Latino with obvious indigenous roots, but they are not regarded the same as a non-latin European origined…

There is one across the street from my boyfriend's house!

Haha!

I just feel like we try to make heroes in history out to be everything we want. Being pro-contraception doesn't mean you are pro-abortion. I think it's just as likely (if not more likely) that MLK would be anti-abortion. And you know what? I am okay with that. Because I don't admire MLK for his work in women's…

I just feel like we try to make people in history out to be everything we want. I think it's just as likely (if not more likely) that MLK would be anti-abortion. And you know what? I am okay with that. Because I don't admire MLK for his work in women's rights, just like I don't care that he plagiarized in college…

Yeah. It's great that MLK was pro-contraception, it doesn't mean he was pro-abortion. My mom is anti-abortion and still supports PP because contraception prevents abortion. People can hold views that fall between completely pro-choice and completely anti-choice. The fact that he was a reverend in the 50's and 60's…

Okay, now I see that he is kind of a jerk, but the point still stands. It is not unlikely that MLK would have been against abortion.

He was quoting what other people said, challenging the idea the MLK would have been pro-choice.

Americans don't look fondly upon the Vietnam War at all. Really, all you hear now is how terrible it was and it was a huge mistake. The lack of exposure to MLK's comments on the Vietnam War probably has less to do with trying to erase opposition to it and more to do with trying to erase the memory of it as a whole.

Margaret Sanger opposed abortion.

The illegitimate part, I believe, comes from the fact that they can't legitimately inherit the property of the father (back when there were strict inheritance laws) because the child was not born in the legal union. Children who were previously illegitimate could be retroactively legitimized through marriage or…