My 7 year old niece has devised a chart where she puts stickers on squares that are numbered. The numbers correspond to a list of misogynistic hot phrases she hears at school, on TV, from my mother, etc. When her chart is full she hands it to the closest adult and demands $20 for Space Camp.

I’m a straight white male in a moderately stable financial position for the near future, so I’m not too directly affected so far.

Initially after he was sworn in and started making cabinet appointments I thought I needed to be prepared to do some civil disobedience-en. But I quickly changed my mind when I saw that the GOP still couldn’t get Obamacare repealed despite having everything in their favor. Trump and co. can really do some damage yes…

Regardless of whether you agree with his motivations or his policies, his statement is essentially correct. A balanced budget is something that people on both sides of the aisle should support, especially when the economy is doing so well.

I asked this question on an older Slot post, the Omarosa one, but more people might see it on a Barf Bag so this is a copy-pasta.

Are the oppressed peoples of China or Bangladesh calling for the international community to boycott China or Bangladesh? No? Then the comparison is illegitimate. It’s no different than supporters of South African apartheid who said “why are you boycotting South Africa but not Uganda or Zaire or Indonesia or [insert…

Teens are great! I have one! Very well-meaning, tries very hard, has rocks where his brains will eventually be. This is pretty standard.

I think you mean compulsory, but yes, it is. That, however, doesn’t change the fact that not only is this stupid, but dangerous. What a way to fan the flames of the whole Palestinian/Israeli problem.

If Israel deems itself a western-style democracy and deserving of our immense support, it has to do better. Can’t have it both ways.

feeding them Tide Pods

Passion 2: Electric Boogaloo

Well, probably unbeknownst to most those starring me, that’s exactly how I meant it...

I did research on workplace sexual harassment in law school. I’m hardly an expert, but a lot of my research showed that a reason some victims do not come forward is that they do not actually want to ruin their harasser’s life and get him fired. For some victims, they want a more restorative approach (counselling,…

Can we stop with the Clinton shit. She is no longer news. She is not the president. She is not actively destroying our country. She is a flawed person who has made a fair amount of stupid decisions in her life. She has also been attacked relentlessly for her mistakes. And also for everything else she has ever done. It…

Yes, it would have been better.

We can all see how ugly this man is.

That’s a twisted read of the Pew study. What it actually says is that slightly more men than women say they have been called offensive names or received physical threats, while significantly more women than men report sexual harassment online. It also says the women report extreme levels of harassment at higher rates.…

Oi. I know we have been policing women forever, and I saw it first hand growing up when religious leaders tried to police how women dressed for the “sake of the men.”

See this is why my wife will only get on mic when she plays with me and people we know personally. Because friends you can trust to not be assholes just because you have two X chromosomes. If we’re playing public matches in Overwatch she relies on me to communicate information to the public voice channel (which is…

Everything about Twitch these days is a depressing tale of trolling and misogyny. I turn off the chat as soon as it loads for the few things I watch on there like conferences because it immediately turns into schoolboy levels of “I’d fuck her”, and “OMG she’s such a slut” because she dares *gasp* wear a short sleeved…