Is that necessarily true, though? I’ve seen many cases where right-wing hate groups are crowing about how feminists are “outraged” by some non-event that literally nobody outside of their echo chamber has heard about. Since most of his fans don’t look at anything but the least reputable right-wing rags, it doesn’t…

In my younger and dumber days I tried (and succeeded) to get out of jury duty by saying that I couldn’t remain impartial after hearing graphic details of a rape. The judge looked down her nose at me and (rightfully) lectured me, saying that the reason rape is a crime is because we are supposed to be uncomfortable with…

i’ve been doing tons of baking and cooking to avoid writing my paper. i have two left and then i’m done with grad school FOREVERRRRR!!! so i made dorie greenspan’s yogurt pound cake, and i think i’m going to have breakfast pasta for dinner. how about you?

What an excellent point. The NFL won’t allow celebrations because it’s disrespectful to the game, but they’ll let an orangutan make a draft pick? How’s that player supposed to feel knowing he’ll forever be remembered for being picked by an orangutan? How’s this respectful to the game?

—Chad, honey? Maybe you shouldn’t watch the draft if it makes you feel sad.

Only too late did Chad realize he’d slipped the roofie into the wrong glass of soda.

They’ve always allowed Goodell but up until now it was the no orangutanS club.

I assumed the NFL was allowing Trump to announce picks when I read the line about an orangutan.

Say what you will, but that orangutan is a huge improvement in Indy. He surely wouldn’t trade a first for Trent Richardson.

But the fact that he never even thought about why someone would need an abortion while taking a stand against it and harming people’s rights is a horrible thing to do.

No crucifying coming from me, I promise!

Ok, so having said that, I would just like to say that I have yet to hear from anyone who “likes” abortion; that is, I’ve never heard of anyone who think it’s something that *should* happen, just something that does. However, there are plenty of us who are morally ok with it,…

Not going to crucify you, but if you think about it for half a second, abortion being *legal* is not the same as it being *legal and accessible*, and it is not the latter for too many women - by design of anti-abortion advocates who keep doing all they can to make it as inaccessible as possible, especially for the…

I’m not going to crucify you. I don’t think there’s many women that are excited to get an abortion. I do think that’s a straw man. It’s a medical procedure, just like I wasn’t excited to get my tonsils out

People who think birth control is a form of abortion are a special kind of crazy.

As we move one step forward to Gilead.

He just wanted some light reading, where he could be entertained by the characters’ depressing circumstances, without having to think about politics and social issues and civil rights and privilege and oppression and shit, and “like, omg... you SJW feminazis are offended by everything! Why does everything have to be…

Along those lines, isn’t this like, EVERY dystopian novel? WTF is this dude’s issue?

The Industrial Revolution, pretty much? The book was written in 1985, acid rain and smog were regular occurrences. Things have gotten better due to environmental regulations in our world, but not Gilead. The book isn’t clear as to how pollution got so bad, maybe there were no laws, like the Clean Air Act, that forced…

If someone ever makes a movie/TV adaptation of The Parable of the Talents, I can’t wait until people get pissed that the president in the novel has almost the same campaign slogan as Trump (though his character was inspired by Ronald Reagan).

I want to ask neontaster, who generally enjoys dystopian fiction but hates sociopolitical intrusion, if there has ever actually been any work of dystopian fiction ever that wasn’t a sociopolitical commentary.