Homophobic bigots will remain as long as support for patriarchal gender roles remains.

That’s how I used to see the Syria conflict as well till I learned Assad attacks Sunni militias who’re also fighting ISIS. He targets those groups, not ISIS. Assad and ISIS are currently competing for the same base and attacking the same groups.

The issue is that there’s been a recent trend toward regression in Islamic culture. Over the past 10-40 years, depending on the nation, instead of progressing towards less patriarchal direction like they were, they stopped and went the opposite direction. So the more patriarchal and regressive customs are readily…

As someone who was belongs to and was raised in both western and eastern culture, the former with all its many flaws is MUCH preferable to the patriarchy of MENA/South Asian culture. I would call it inferior because once western culture was where those eastern cultures are today but fortunately it progressed for the…

Islam is essentially another denomination of Judaism. As is Christianity.

You can never know someone’s personal life and state of mind by simply looking at their resume but I hope there is a thorough investigation, rather than a lazy ruling. A woman dying from non-natural cause is most likely to have been killed by a current or former male intimate partner. In Abdus Salaam’s case there’s…

Exactly! I like getting laid. Can we stop pretending like women don’t like and want sex. Also stop thinking of sex as a bargaining chip.

Imani Gandy wrote a great piece debunking that myth and showing how misogynistic it is.

Look folks, this is what happens when you turnout and vote to elect Democrats at every level!!

When you don’t want to be responsible for doing something you purposely don’t learn to do it properly. I used that to get out of certain chores all the time. There were certain things that my mom or brothers did and the few times I was asked to do it I purposely didn’t make an effort because I knew if I did it right…

That line is troubling. He says she wants to wear princess clothes every day but if he “lets” her be sherif once a week then does she really only want to dress as a princess or she also wants to be a sherif just as much or maybe more but that option isn’t as allowable to her.

Exactly! As a child I hated dresses, I hated “girly colors,” I wanted my hair short but was told girls can’t go too short, like the writers daughter I was the kid crying her eyes out at stores but because my parents wouldn’t buy me the suit jacket because it was “for boys only” and my mom wanted dresses for me.

This is where campaigning/marketing comes into play. It was never seen as a high-enough priority from the Clinton campaign

Democrats already do take their commitment to economic justice seriously. That’s why the country’s economy as a whole does better under Democratic president, and states with Democratic controlled local governments have better state economy. I grew up in the rust belt too, in a place exactly as you describe it. I saw…

Those states with not so great economy have republican controlled state government though. People of Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Kansas.. have their state government to blame for their state not experiencing economic growth and for some not benefitting from ACA. Yet they vote for more of the same that’s responsible…

Have you not read those articles interviewing Trump supporters who are at great risk of losing their jobs because of Trump’s recent budget cuts and they still haven’t turned on him. Same with people who would’ve been at risk of losing their life saving healthcare that was made available to them because of ACA.

I’ve had this issue too. If I click the link-date&time (e.g. 4/06/17 3:27pm for your post) under username then it takes me to the post and allows me to upvote/star. It should work without having to do that though

I would hope condoms are used during one night stands. So even in that situation you’re doubling up by using both condoms and female BC. For someone who has had one night stands and always used condoms, I never thought what’s the point of taking BC pill since I already used condoms as a safe sex practice. The point is…

And if I have to still take the pill because I can’t trust them to be honest well, then what’s the point?

75% of men tested didn’t say they would use it. 75% of the men who completed the test said they would use it(that’s like 20-30 percent of men then not 75%). They didn’t say if the men who were tested but unable/refused to complete the test were surveyed on whether they’d use it though, so we don’t know what they…