I blatantly share your pessimism, for a number of reasons. Venerating fascism and nationalism while vilifying anything that is remotely socialist or promotes equity has been perfected over the years by the Republican party with inspiration from the KKK and other white nationalist organizations. Now that they’re…

I grew up in a very rural part of the country. Trust: consistent access to birth control was not there in the ‘80s and ‘90s, and is still not there to this day. But do continue to defend the mythos that a time existed in the US where these things were accessible and available to all.

Misplaced or ambiguous modifier FTW

Dammit, man: had I known about this sooner, we would have postponed our flights out of the country to see you at the Amsterdam. Have a great time. Here’s to hoping I can catch the podcast by that stage in the flight.

Yes—we no longer need a husband to co-sign for a bank account or birth control. But to be perfectly honest, in the US it’s not easy or guaranteed still to this day for women to get access to the birth control they need. It’s a constant reminder of how far we *haven’t* come in practice, despite leaps and bounds in…

I never say this about anyone, but I love everything about your comment. Particularly the final clause and poopy diapers. Never trust a person who hasn’t had to change a kid. Seriously.

Not as much time as financial institutions would have you believe. They are quite able to do this in 48 hours’ time. No excuses from the banks.

Even when a will or power-of-attorney isn’t designated in advance, financial holding institutions have as policy a hierarchy of survivors and beneficiaries who can access or control accounts. Typically, the first person on the automatic hierarchies is a surviving spouse, followed by children, etc. This never should…

THANK YOU. I did a terrible job articulating this last night on a number of occasions. Including the never-ending-white-actresses-of-a-certain-stature complicity that prevents real change.

On the flip side, she’s also favored intelligent, terrific folks like Robert Reich, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Any arts and humanities appointees would be AMAZING. She also is a friend to the non-cishet community, to women the world over. It’s a matter of which Oprah we’d get: intelligent, awesome,…

You’re not sorry, and I don’t care for politeness that excuses “blindness” for women who again profit from men who abuse women. I’m not blaming Meryl for what Harvey did. I’m blaming Meryl for her complicity in the misogyny machine that is the Hollywood film industry. The gender of the person profiting from misogyny…

Women who support (or profit directly from) men who abuse other women are not friends of women. The disgusting politics of the poster’s creator do not negate the position that it is incredibly unlikely scenario that Meryl and those “higher on the food chain” simply had no way of knowing.

Well, maybe. Because their lives and professional work shouldn’t be commodified. And yet, here we are: fashion for an even that has a known history of misogyny and racism as “resistance”. The most cushy, publicity-friendly and palatable form of “resistance”. Let Meryl (and others) eat cake.

Yeah. It’s the capricious callousness of dipshit Tyler and his comrade in gaming arguments that pisses me off the most. It’s a tragedy all the way around, but fucking zero tolerance for these amoral assholes who waste real-life resources on tragically wrong, intentional acts.

I’ll vouch for this. Through both the recruitment process for the program I manage—in addition to an equity and diversity course I facilitate—there is an epidemic of privilege-blindness and discriminatory attitudes detectable behind a very obvious facade.

Very close. What she’s trying to say is that she’s retiring, and this is her very lame way of doing so.

“They are angry at *everyone* for a variety of reasons and like seeing him attack.” FTFY

Yeah. I cannot understand the failure to comprehend that the base *loves* its shit-gibbons. Hence, why we have them in office.

ProPublica’s series is enlightening, sad, and enraging. Seeing a trend emerge where health care professionals—even those specifically trained in OB/gyn—don’t have basic awareness of common symptom progressions, or ignore obvious symptoms for a myriad of reasons is simply gross. I remember the one account where an ER…