That was the tactic I took with Kidlet as well - he was taught about male privilege from a young age, using Halloween costumes and superhero poses to talk about how girls and boys were viewed, and now that he’s an adult, he definitely views himself as a feminist and ally, and I think he’s a pretty good one. Bonus -…

“Lauren Boehbert, against the Equality Act, says as the mother of four boys, says raising them “to be men,”

You have to RAISE them to be men? If gender and masculine coded behavior are innate traits tied specifically to biological sex, shouldn’t they end up with these traits without you doing anything deliberate to…

It’s what helped kill the original ERA. Opponents claimed (falsely) the ERA would force women to share public bathrooms with men, where they’d be raped and assaulted. Then I think it grew into an urban legend from there. I remember hearing variations of it as a kid. One from my own grandmother, who told my mom not to…

Also have they never used a Port-a-Potty? That's literally a unisex bathroom. WTF?

What is it with these people and bathrooms? Are they not aware that there nothing stopping men from going into women’s bathrooms right now if they’re that determined that that's the best spot to assault people?

Exactly.

He’ll paint a picture of a dog, and all will be forgotten and forgiven.

Call me a cynic, but I fully expect these assholes to all land on their feet eventually, because the world is unfair and annoyingly kind to mediocre white people.

I don’t think people cared in the early 2000s about this - I’m not even sure about this now. Teenagers are often treated like adults and that is a terrible thing to do. They aren’t mature. They need love and support and guidance. And sometimes they do just need their mommy or daddy to make it okay. I never had that.…

I can’t snark on this. Claudia sounds like she needs support and for whatever reason she isn’t getting it. I don’t think it helps that unlike other teenagers, her social media feed gets injected straight into the mass media aquarium.

Barbara Lee in Shirley Chisholm’s pearls is making me tear up a bit. 

Theory: She sheds are the natural response to the “open concept” house everyone thought they wanted but quickly learned meant “No place at all to get away to”.

The house I just bought has a man cave in the form of an electric shop.  It’s now a she shed by virtue of the total lack of men in my household.  It’s not really going to fit the mold though - I am turning into my home gym.

I will quibble with you on the “no good rich people” because just LOOK at Dolly Parton! But as Republicans’ Lord and Savior Jesus Christ said, “it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle* than for a rich man to enter heaven.”

Having lived in NYC for over a decade, a few of those years spent working on Wall Street, I have a very difficult time believing that the Kushners’ high society friends will actually shun them on a permanent basis. Some will, sure, and they’ll probably be excluded from a few parties in the first couple years, but…

I binged all the seasons available on Netflix this year and the egregious use of passionfruit is what struck me personally. Mango is at least a change... 

I lived on the East coast and went to bed at my usual early time. Things weren’t close yet. I woke up in the middle of the night and checked my phone and that’s how I found out.

White women, this is all on you, biggest swing voting bloc in America. Now you have a white woman who hates women other than herself and maybe her kids in supreme judiciary power.

Who fucking cares? Who cares about heading off (purely hypothetical and speculative) electoral disaster when a 6-3 court can, and will, undo every single thing that a Democratic Congress can pass and a Democratic president can sign?  If the court stays 6-3, Republicans don’t need to win another fucking election for a…

From experience most “third party” types in a two-way race tend to be white, middle-class, and with few financial committments.