Also one needs to understand dipshits in the TN state legislature put forth incredibly dumb, evangelical-inspired bills every year. Remember Stacey Campfield? Very often, these bills fail, rightfully. The intent behind them is to gin up anger and indignance amongst the evangelical, Republican base. Yes, it is…

Doctors are pretty dismissive of female patients with chronic fatigue and chronic pain without clear causes in general, especially young women, but yes, WOC are diagnosed with fibromyalgia and ME/CFS too. Men, children and teens are diagnosed as well. (I know less about chronic lyme so I won’t speak on it.) Because…

2015 report on ME/CFS from the Institute of Medicine - link from the National Academies Press. The PDF is free: nap.edu/catalog/19012/beyond-myalgic-encephalomyelitischronic-fatigue-syndrome-redefining-an-illness The IOM determined that it’s a debilitating disease affecting multiple systems with many patients often…

This fifties notion is at the heart of evangelical culture: men should be leaders of the house and spiritual leaders. Women are supposed to follow their lead. Men being in charge is seen as Biblical and virtuous, while women are taught to have a servant heart. It’s reinforced in megachurches and smaller ones all over…

Same. I hope he’s not a douchecanoe today.

Whitney Dafoe’s case is toward the most severe end (at the link), but yes. It’s estimated about 2.5 million Americans have ME/CFS. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/healt… Check out the Institute of Medicine report on ME/CFS from 2015: http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/Reports/20… Part of the reason why…

If it’s any consolation, he says that acting in Tootsie, which came out a few years later, changed him. Not sure how he is now, but while he was definitely wrong for slapping Meryl and using her personal life against her, I’m hoping he evolved. He does sound self-involved, in that he expected to be a “beautiful woman”…

I am speaking to the fact that the the headline and the gist of this piece says his move is “weird.” It’s the opposite of weird - it’s routine to any person who is more than a casual observer of politics, my chosen profession of over a decade. I said opportunist because there are many, many routes one can take to earn…

Opportunists do this all the time. If they’re viewed as a pariah in their own party, they will frequently pundit for the opposite side-leaning cable news network. Sunrise, sunset. Rinse, repeat.

Good Lord, the comments on their Facebook page. Rabid, rabid people.

Yes, they need to get this enthusiastic about down ballot races, as these are where the Dem members of Congress will eventually come from. The GOP has had a 50 state strategy for a while, and progressives seem to forget that the President isn’t the only important person making decisions. Congress and state…

Thank you. As a Clinton supporter, honestly I will vote for whoever wins the nom, as both Hillary and Bernie are far better than anyone the GOP has running. However, when the Bernie bros start in with their misogyny, that makes me less trusting of my plan and that Bernie has people like me in mind when he crafts…

Oooh this point is good. So true.

Yep - we are going to most likely have a conservative Congress. So while I love Bernie’s plans, getting them through Congress and implementing them is another ball of wax. While Hillary’s are less far left, she is politically shrewd so she can get things done and the agenda pushed through. I don’t want 4 more years of…

Unfortunately, this should be embroidered on a pillow. I just don’t fucking understand why it’s this goddamn hard for many progressive dudes to think about misogyny or hell, intersectionality.

I think they were getting ahead of themselves and thinking about the general. Wisconsin was a swing state in the last election. But as you point out, they should be more focused on winning the primaries in earlier states at this stage.

It’s almost Matt Damonesque in their logic - we can have a person of color head the Academy. We can have a person of color introduce and entertain, but we can’t have diverse crews or people of color in powerful positions or be recognized for their work. Insidious shit. While I love film as a medium and the colorful…

To add: more women than men live in poverty and work in minimum wage or illegally-lower-than-minimum-wage jobs, like the restaurant industry. To get a living wage law passed at the federal level, that means that we’d have flip Congress to Democratically-controlled regardless of which candidate becomes president. And…

Amen - this person needs some help to have their pants in a twist over it.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ What I inferred from her writing is that she doesn’t like labels, but if she had to take on one, she believes “queer” fits her best and casts a wider net than other, narrower labels. Then again, I don’t expect that level of nuanced writing to completely and explicitly spell all of that out from a 14 year old.