This, my friends, is the pinnacle of white male privilege: mediocre art; direct equivalence of idiotic, wildly unethical American political figure (Trump) to Jesus; zero contextual understanding of anything/everything.

If only it were that simplistic.

+1000 for your second paragraph. I’ve heard about the “death of conservatism” for years, but the US seems so much more fearful of basically everything. Pervasive irrational fear of “others” is not the hallmark of an intelligent or empathetic society.

That’s exactly what happens. In other words, I have nothing to add but the obvious because.....yeah, that’s exactly what happens.

Painkillers are recommended (OTC in this case) or prescribed like nobody’s business. It’s a huge industry, and pain management via other methods has really only started to get any sort of serious traction in western medicine in the past 15 year—and it’s still not standard or extremely common. My stance is that the ill…

+1

No, we understand from a scientific and biological perspective. We can do without the callousness and condescension.

A statement that general is not a spoiler. Kinda like saying the sun rises in the east isn’t a spoiler.

Let me get this straight. Outside of the fictitious supernatural, his logic is that socialists do not pay him. Yet he drove out to meet her with the intent of working, saw that she was a “socialist”, and he drove away. In other words, he decided to go to a job and then drive away from it—thusly ensuring that he…

I have never understood why women who marry misogynistic fucksticks are lauded. It must be because it’s fundamentally a transactional relationship, which many people still admire.

The fuck is that shit—stealing my mom’s denim skirt from 1983?

Hillary’s logic is tragically narcissistic, in that it carries the connotation that *she* is the one who can provide pain relief. She’s incredibly paternalistic, herself. Her friends are prescriptivist in the same ways—Gloria Steinem’s take on why women should vote for Hillary (VAGINA!). People are hurting without…

All the stars. ALL. THE. STARS.

I know it’s not all about me, but I’m going to make my comment about me: I’m not represented in any of the graphs. Dad is a doc, mom didn’t work. I initially was a professional classical musician in NYC, but now work in medicine. I’d love to know what the opposite pairings look like—fathers to daughters, or mothers to…

A wrestler, while sweaty and wearing a singlet, referring to fluffing. Heh.

The “victim blaming” also shows a fundamental lack of knowledge of how cancer works. It’s lack of empathy coupled with a total lack of how to synthesize medical knowledge.

Having “elderly” as a descriptor in your charts and paperwork is part and parcel of the still-archaic terminology in the OB/gyn world. Yes, pregnancies in women 35 and over are higher-risk. But in many things medical, updating terminology and conversational nature are far behind.

It’s not a straw man. Clinton has thin skin, and responded with a bitchy but pointless non sequitur.

Funny, but the “you weren’t politically active in the ‘right’ ways” trope is also what Hillary’s campaign tried against Obama in the 2008 elections, even though the Republicans tried it with Obama hundred thousand times more. And this is essentially what Hillary is doing here, too. A person doesn’t have to run for…

She is in the game. So sorry that you missed that inconvenient fact.