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Beatrice Hawthorne is walking away from Omelas
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I don’t know about dog hair, but we have 3 cats and I never notice any hair on mine. It’s really sturdy, heavier than LL Bean, although I don’t know if that makes a difference.

All this shit is exactly why I decided not to become a parent. I’ve often said, if I could be a parent in the way a father is a parent, I might have done it.

“I didn’t have much experience of how to organize domesticity.”

This.

Obviously her being underage makes it 10 times worse, but pulling a random woman out of the crowd to kiss and fondle is creepy in general

Heteromen culturally believe they are superior to women, thus the demeaning treatment of them. They do not value/consider our thoughts or emotions before their own because women are seen as objects and not full human beings. Because if they do, their masculinity is at stake. What makes (straight)men persistent in

For men, interactions with women are a zero-sum game. If she wins, he loses. He doesn’t want to be a loser, so in every encounter she has to lose in order to reaffirm his manhood.

While I believe in reducing world population, that kind of precipitous decline is unsustainable for any single nation.

Article fails to mention that there are no laws in place that punish discrimination against pregnant workers. I’m so fucking sick of global demographic mysteries that have answers screaming in your face. White men shoot up schools and churches because they’re violently bigoted. Mystery solved. There aren’t enough

People are awful. So I’m sure they’ll find some way to shame and/or force women into marrying shitty men and popping out babies.

I’m okay with this so long as his future obit is written as “Clint Eastwood, mortal enemy of empty chair, dies at X”

I get your anger, but I totally believe that prosector: either this slap on the wrist or nothing. Although those were different juries, I have zero faith that the outcome was going to change, especially because it's Texas where reproductive rights are becoming extinct.

This is in no way news, but it’s important to have these abuses documented, brought to light, and treated as the serious crimes they are.

Everything you can find in a human exists in the animal kingdom. Its almost like we’re tied to a web of life that stretches back a billion years and links us intimately with all that has come before us.

I think the backlash comes from the realization that if a woman’s accusation of sexual assault is now given more sway and influence, then all of a sudden women are given a lot more power and men are deprived of a major tool in their arsenal to control and oppress women (i.e sexual harrassment and abuse). This gain of

I totally laughed.

It’s the idea that suicide is something you can DO to a person by breaking their heart.  Obviously external circumstances can influence a person’s mood, but by saying it was because of a broken heart implies that Bourdain was wronged and whoever wronged him is somehow responsible for his death.  Not only that, but as

I’m still fascinated/confused about why this is a thing at all. People have been doing simulated BJs on microphones since microphones were invented. I can almost understand it being a “gasp!” moment when Tina Turner did it in 1968, but now? For real?

You know what doesn’t help anything?  Saying that a man who died by suicide died “of a broken heart.”  That’s just irresponsible.