So what you aren’t getting here is that it’s not specifically about Semnya - it’s about the fact that the only women being targeted under these restrictions are women of color.

I’d rather he actually join the democratic party and stay in it even when he isn’t running for something. 

That’s a hell of a doorman. Too bad the ex didn’t listen.

I mean fuck you even throw in lists to make it easy and someone STILL did a gift card?

People get themselves too wound up about secret santa. I’ve been facilitating one that’s been quite an undertaking because there’s a lot of participants and we’re all spread around the country. I had people do surveys of there likes…

People get weirdly stressed out about secret santa. “But what if I don’t know the person well?” I dunno, get them some generic holiday type gift and call it good. It’s secret santa. It’s just supposed to be fun. You don’t have to get the absolute perfect gift for Karen in the cubicle next to you.

That’s why my…

My boyfriend’s family isn’t super into christmas, birthdays, or really any gift giving occasion. They’re not really great at it and usually lean to the more practical gifts if anything. My boyfriend, bless him, tries his hardest and he consults with my family/friends to get him on the right track. His twin brother is…

It’s funny because no one recognized it as such. It’s just a bit of silliness.

I think people sometimes are able to get their minds around name changes because it’s like being asked to call someone by like a preferred nickname or something. We’re accustomed to calling people by names other than those they were given at birth. Pronouns are a more general, insidious, and auto pilot thing and…

Yeah, this story would be very different if it were anyone else other than Rihanna... the only other person who could get away with it without flak would be Beyonce.

I mean, I agree with you, male circumcision is also unnecessary and unethical. But male circumcision is not motivated by oppression and sexism, does not do ongoing harm, and is not what we are currently talking about.

I mean, they did do something wrong. Killing people is wrong. He was also wrong, as you clearly laid out. Wrong all around. Which isn’t to say they’re wrong for wanting to be left alone.

People treated her this way after the Manchester arena attack, too. Like she was using that horror for personal gain. In reality she went through a terrible trauma, the guilt must be horrible, and she responded with compassion and love. The people of Manchester love her for that - I know, I’m one of them.

I’m a mental health counselor in a residential treatment facility; one of my clients committed suicide while I was on shift. I’d been working with her for months, and in a residential setting not simply working with her but really getting to know her well. Her death hit me harder than I ever could have imagined, and I…

I’ve had this kind of help from my parents and never once have I imagined that everyone is so lucky. And my parents made damn certain I knew how hard they had always worked in order to provide myself and my siblings with that help, because they both grew up working class and had none of that kind of help. More people…

He hasn’t taken a break from it ever at all midterms or no. He had his first post-inauguration rally in what, march of that year? The cheering crowds are the only reason he wanted to do any of this in the first place, he has not stopped doing rallies, and nor will he.

Not a single member of my family is a lawyer, yet we are all like this. I don’t know why we’re like this. My boyfriend is not a lawyer, but he’s the closest to it among us, and he is still considering law school... and yet he is nothing like this.

People keep saying she was a 22 year old adult as though 22 is really grown up and mature. I look back at me as a 22 year old, and I was an idiot and knew nothing at all about real love or grown up relationships. I was full of infatuation for any moron who’d give me the time of day. She may have been technically an…

Homebirth is ‘safer’ than hospital birth because if something goes wrong at home, then the expectant mother is taken to the hospital. If a death happens, it happens at the hospital, not at home. Skews the stats.

I mean, it kinda sounds like she WILL do this extreme isolation thing if she gets pregnant again, because she’s immersed in a cult that is saying she did exactly the right thing all along and that her baby’s death was unavoidable.

Yeah, this shit infuriates me, because all the stats about home birth being a totally safe option - some say safer than hospital - totally ignore the fact that if something goes wrong, the woman goes to the hospital. If the baby or mother dies, then, it’s at the hospital instead of at home, skewing the data. If they’d…