My mother had a boyfriend who knew how many days until my 17th birthday starting when I was 14, and referred to the age of consent as “ripening.”

If we stopped treating poverty like it’s a character flaw, it’s obvious, to me at least, that it’s much easier and cheaper to provide the financial resources to bring the existing family unit up to code than it is to replicate the emotional security of familial love in foster care. But, no, we can’t help the poor too…

Honestly, the fact that more Muslims in America aren’t Republicans is only a sign that the Republican party is truly a white Christian nationalist organization, instead of a legitimate political party. It’s the inverse of why poor whites vote Republican against their economic interests.

Pretty much what I came here to say. That one’s solid gold.

he’d be the resulting product “if Ed Hardy fucked a juggalo.”

From a memo from Gawker Media executive editor John Cook:

As if I couldn’t be any more skeeved out by him, now I am actively shuddering.

Look....random internet guy....we need to talk.

No, that’s pretty fucking racist. Just like you’re pretty fucking racist.

Don’t forget FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM FRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIES!

But without the “union” they won’t have any of the aid they so willingly accept... So, there’s that conundrum.

Ok, but we are talking about Glamour freaking magazine’s woman of the year award, not the Nobel Peach Prize. This super serious hand wringing over whether or not Caitlyn Jenner deserved such a great honor is absolutely ridiculous. Why didn’t people object so strongly to any of the other honorees from this year, which…

I think it is very brave of her to transition so publicly; but it does seem hard to believe there are no better candidates. Of course, it is an award from Glamour magazine, FFS, not the Nobel Prize.

While it is true that Caitlyn Jenner transitioned with privileges that far too few trans* enjoy, I think responses like Mr. Smith’s make it pretty clear that transitioning is still an act of bravery.

So this is an independently wealthy self-made single woman of the 21st century extolling the virtues of 50’s style patriarchy? Girl, sit down.

She’s 29? I’m like. Really?

It’s pretty dispiriting that the broader medical community isn’t standing up to this basically unprecedented level of legislative interference with the doctor/patient relationship and professional self-regulation. They should be all over this on principle, but lady parts are different.

There’s no good time to leave, so, like, whatevs! Be vulnerable on your own time, I got chicks to fuck because that’s my immature and nebulous definition of “happy.” I’ll be by to play with the baby and do all the fun stuff while you struggle to even do the basic stuff alone. Peace out, sucka!

But if a person doesn’t want to be there, they shouldn’t be there. It won’t help, really.”

I’m sure part of that slump is due to people like me. I watch most movies at home, illegally, unless it’s something that should really be seen on a big screen or it’s a girls’ night out or something.