A Marxist analysis of property (or really any economic activity where paying rents is required) seems to be inherently flawed, since Marxism as I understand it doesn’t really think that rent is a moral/viable requirement. If Joan wants to get into dollars and cents when she’s analyzing property ownership through a…

Agreed. Most people would not have a place to without rental properties. Slumlords are bad but anybody trying make an honest living renting out home or apartments are not the bad guys.

Yeah I thought that was really weird to have here. They took the step when so many corporate landlords aren’t doing shit.  Like why are they being called out here?

I have no issues with Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard owning a building and I think they’re being really good landlords by not charging rent for April. It’s decent and I wish my apartment complex would do the same.

Then maybe instead of attacking transpeople if their true issue is with biological hormones maybe they should be calling for all sports to change how they classify from “male/female” to various classes based on hormones.

I 100% believe these girls who were born as boys identify as female and are trans.

I’m currently wearing an Elvie ( the British version of the Willow) pump and I call them my Robo Dolly Parton boobs. Nothing has been more freeing than getting these wearable pumps. I pump while in the car, I pump on the plane, I pump while at parties, it has seriously changed the way that I feel about pumping because…

Have you forgot what was REALLY creepy about the Dole as? His other pitch job was Viagra...

This is heartbreaking is all I really have to say. They say that they want to provide “compassion and care” to trans children but I think we all know that means they think they are morally righteous in their attempts to convince children that they are simply “confused”... These people don’t even know what it means to…

We’re a white family that had plenty of money (my parents acted like we didn’t) and this was a white community in a mostly white Midwestern state.

Not a good one.

He’s doing it because he’s an animal, and also because he’s kind of a dick.

Amen. I mean the snark in this article is all well and good, but I’m done arguing with my 5-year-old about pants. It’s fucking dumb and it’s a waste of my time and if he wants to be uncomfortable and cold, I don’t even care as long as he doesn’t complain about it. He is VERY particular about his clothes, and I guess…

This was my (current) boyfriend, many years ago. Now he’s 50 and had to go home, put on flannel pjs, and get under a fleece blanket because he stupidly chose to wear jeans with a hole in the knee while walking the dog in 8 degree weather. 

I have two sons and a husband who are all apparently allergic to pants. The kids I sorta understand, they run around a lot and presumably get hot from the exercise so clothes are a sweaty inconvenience. (I too get hot easily but deal with it by wearing layers.) They at least have the sense to put on additional layers…

It’s just because teenage boys are notorious slobs who don’t like the restrictive nature of real pants, right? Just let them be slobs. If they freeze, it’s their own fault.

I have the opposite problem in that my 3 year old son hates shorts. Wont wear them. We just got home from a vacation in South Padre Island where…

Did everyone’s school have That One Kid who always wore shorts? Ours was named Will.

So when I was at school years ago I took part in training for Ten Tors, essentially an endurance event for schoolkids that took place on Dartmoor that involved 35, 45, and 55 mile treks over a weekend. During one training event we went up in January, already close to/below zero without the wind chill and we had one…

Ya know, as a woman who is always very comfortable in cold weather and is extremely over being told by people to put more clothes on because whatever I’m wearing isn’t “warm enough” (even though I feel perfectly warm in it) I’m going to go ahead and say: let the boys wear their shorts in winter if they want to. Let…

Her music is great, especially her early low-fi stuff. Somebody doesn’t have to be talentless to be annoying.