Slightly unrelated: because kinja I first starred your post then it unstarred, so I hit it many times with my bulbous thumbs...and it allowed me to give you twelve. I have unlocked the much mythologized power to “give all the stars”! A Thanksgiving miracle.

No, most types of Christianity don’t believe in anything like purgatory, and even Catholics are walking it back. It’s more Dante than anything. Her theology is still a little all over the place and I wish she could have the same open love for this living kid as she has for her aborted fetuses, but it’s almost…

In my experience it has been razors on the “floor” of the bathtub, when they fell off their usual perches, not because someone was like leaving a trail of razors behind them. That would be unacceptable.

When you step on them it is an apocalypse of pain. And you want to blame the person they belong to, but you love them and they didn't mean to leave it in your path, so you are left with a ball of anger and nowhere to throw it.

We were sitting at home and my husband reached over to gently touch my breast, as long-term romantic partners are wont to do. It hurt so much and I was so emotionally overwhelmed by the fact that he had hurt me I burst into racking sobs.

I was with my extended family in a tiny town in Wisconsin waiting for my Grandpa to die. They took pity on me and got me a plastic crown from a convenience store on the actual birthday night. Not as bad as it sounds, but Grace Jones it was not.

The Caesar thing is about taxes, but luckily the Bible (and basic human decency) has several injunctions to pay people living wages and always pay them for their work, so JUST TIP jerks. Jesus in fact tells a story about. A bunch of people who work different hours in different ways, but all get the same pay and some…

I would guess when you have people tweet the kind and volume of bull at you a famous person gets you end up accidentally blocking a lot of harmless people (sounds like, next to in feed, etc.) Better too many false positives than false negatives - nobody wants to wake up to death threats on the regular. Not your fault!

I’m so sorry you’ve had those experiences. I have had some of them too, and would never take away from the pain and difficulty they have caused, and the way they are rooted in structural disadvantages for women in our society.

Yeah, but I was raised from birth as a cis woman and have cis privilege. It’s fine to recognize the complexities of our identities and how they impact us and what they require of us, but that is not the point Germaine Greer is making. She is saying, “trans women aren’t women and furthermore untrustworthy” which is…

Here is the incredibly obvious difference - all WBC has ever done is promote hate. They are hateful, damaging, and intellectually uninteresting. Basically no one would invite them in the first place. But this person was invited because she has done and said interesting things, led a historical life, in addition to…

Yes. As commenters below point out, free speech wouldn’t be in danger if she was cancelled, but the academy’s commitment to the belief that full and constant airing out of views, with the chance to argue and interrogate and reject, will lead us to more and better knowledge certainly would be. In the future I can see…

But then why were all the customers so clearly on her side? There definitely would have at least been argument among the other passengers if this was the case, I would think.

Yeah, and the kind of universal and vociferous support she appears to have had from her fellow customers is rare - it makes me think the whole situation must have been ridiculous, no gray area, flight attendant’s fault in order to provoke that kind of response.

I feel like you may be arguing with somebody else, or with some set of arguments you hear frequently elsewhere - at no point did I imply women can or should be the only caregivers. If we are having this conversation based on the comment I think we are, I literally don’t mention gender or gender referents and am only…

Why? That 100% tracks for me, and wouldn’t it be interesting if people had that option sometimes? For me the biggest difference is that a baby is usually happier with a parent no matter where they are - for many elderly people with health challenges the stress of moving around and going new places may be worse than…

Most women I know from my peer group don’t have kids. What I would say is that I think the atomization and extreme individualization you’re talking about is just clearly not working for anybody on any issue, regardless of kids - people need each other, we need each other’s help and each other’s slack, and the idea…

With who? I definitely see your point, but it is frustrating when people say “leave the baby at home” as if it can just chill there in the crib alone nbd. Leaving the baby at home means paying someone a ton of money, having a fantastic support system most people don’t have, or having access to a day care that is…

So what? This is such a white rich people thing, is my conclusion after working in a largely Asian immigrant community for the last few years. In my community, people bring their babies and kids lots and lots of places my rich White family would have felt deeply uncomfortable bringing kids. Occasionally it gets loud.…

Because the coffee maker is disruptive, the radio is disruptive, the guy in the cubicle over on personal calls is disruptive, the delivery person with somebody’s sandwich is disruptive, and babies might also be disruptive but society needs babies to survive and parents need some accommodation to raise healthy children…