Agreed—nurses are great.

I love nurses.

I’ve had nurses who seemed incompetent and were unkind.

People love acting as if confronting racism is what creates racial tension, as if our country is a colorblind wonderland and the people who are like, “uh, that’s racist,” are REALLY the ones that are making racism an issue.

Yeah, stupid and racist mistakes. That involved a child. JUST GET OVER IT PEOPLE AND STOP MAKING AMERICA SO RACIALLY CHARGED.

LOL. And I’m still upset that I’ve started using LOL.

I know! I’m a linguist (that sounds more pretentious than I mean it to). I’ve heard the overextension used too, though.

I am not sure if my stars have the power to ungrey! But I tried! (and would have starred anyway).

Yeah. . . .I’m totally with him on that one. I just think it’s hilarious that they all use that same talking point, over, and over, and over, again. “Well, I like pickles, and, let me remind you, Ronald Reagan liked pickles too.”

thank god for this clarification!!! You’re totally right. And I can stop worrying about my personal health decisions, bodily autonomy, economic security, and all that jazz, cause DIAMONDS.

Agreed. I think the response was funny. But I think the whole thing is potentially harmful to victims. Shouldn’t have been asked.

you’re not. I’m a rape victim and I laughed. I think it was a funny joke.

I thought Mindy’s response was funny. I laughed internally and felt bad about it.

THANK YOU, Bernie Sanders. Imma gonna go donate 5 dollars right now.

I love it that he called them out on this shit. . . . .I don’t know how/why they don’t realize how dumb it is that they all use the same “rhetorical strategy”— “well. . . . RONALD REAGAN. . . .”

Wait, why are the GOP candidates being asked about vaccines? And why are they taking a partisan stance?

While I generally agree with your comment (that we shouldn’t be jumping down everyone’s throats), I don’t agree with the sort of flippant tone with which you describe interrupting a “black woman.” It’s actually really irritating to be interrupted by someone who THINKS they know more about a topic than you know. And…

I agree that we should not completely hate him for this one interaction. The path to non-hate, however, would be a lot easier if he would actually apologized. If Taylor Swift can apologize for ignorance, Matt Damon can too.

Maybe if you were a lady you would understand that it is no fun to listen to a bunch of men (and now 1 woman!) talk about how they wouldn’t let you have an abortion if you were raped or if your life was endangered by a pregnancy. Watching a bunch of dudes, who are presumably running for president in a secular society,…

Is there a link to this? I’m not trying to be aggressive.