Trump, a sentient wig possessed by an ancient evil

Trump runs same exact ad ending with “Americans for Trump”, wins another primary.

You see that ad with all those ugly broads repeating my statements?! Not one of them was as bangable as my daughter Ivanka.

This would be quite effective were it not for the fact that “women: you have to treat them like sh*t” is the subtext for the entire Republican party.

I wrote elsewhere on the thread about how rude she was to other adults. I really feel the saying about catching more flies with honey than vinegar is true in this case. She’s alienating people to her cause instead of attracting them by her rude and disrespectful conveyance of the message. And aside from how rude as…

And this woman was so insufferable to the other adults that if any other parents ever try to bing up similar concerns, even if they do so as politely and kindly as possible, these people will immediately think that they’re in for another pretentious lecture and get defensive.

As a Children’s Librarian in a public library, I have to tell you this is not the case in many libraries. Many library systems have gone to pre-selected collections from distributors like Baker and Taylor. It saves them the salary of a librarian dedicated to collection development, which is a full time job at anything…

...but there is no evidence that that is going on HERE. I get that the general trend is to excuse boys’ aggressive behavior but not girls’, but we’re talking specifics here, and we have no evidence that this is going on. We DO have some indication that the school is very aware that the bully in question isn’t doing…

This is a “child has a hard life” excuse, and likely would have been given to a boy or a girl. I know I have felt that way about both genders myself as a teacher. Unless the teacher SAID “Boys will be boys!” this is not a gendered thing. I honestly am more likely to say something like this when a parent either 1-…

Actually the teacher acknowledged that the kid’s behavior was problematic- she just excused it based on his hard life. Girls acting out in these ways is generally not acceptable. Boys will be boys and girls will be punished for not being nice, sweet, quiet, and calm.

Yes, thank you! I work in a library and wanted to say the same thing. Even aside from the slippery slope of removing objectionable materials (shuddering just thinking about that can of worms—what’s objectionable? To whom?), the whole point of libraries is equal access. We can’t cater to one person’s views because…

Agreed. I understand wanting to protect a loved one, but this reads as helicopter parenting.

Yeah, seriously. Leave the poor librarian alone. She did not write the book.

I agree- I’m a bookseller and my wife is a librarian and I was appalled that she would do that...

Yeah- all of these except the bathroom intrusion were a “deal with your kid by talking about it” thing, NOT a “contact other adults and complain” thing.

Concurred in entirety. The request for censorship troubled me, and the one book is such a tiny drop in the bucket I don’t think it would help anyway. But talking with the child about the messaging was a great way to handle it! She can apply that lesson to everything.

I’m with the librarian about Point #2. You can’t expect a library to get rid of all the children’s books with subtle sexist messages. Even if the library just got rid of all the books with OVERT sexist messages, it wouldn’t carry any European fairy tales. (Except Hansel and Gretel. Gretel’s a badass.) I think the…

That’s a lot of letters. If only there were some shorter word that could be used in its place, like...five, maybe even four letters long.

“nonconsensual sex”

Yeah-it’s tough. It was very frightening to have your parent be one way sometimes and be “different” other times even if I was never physically in any danger. Even if the emotional energy change wasnt directed at me or was sometimes very fun.