It’s evil because, in most cases, it’s ego. They want the right to say they’re smarter and more virtuous than anyone else. They want to get to be better than the “sheeple.” Sometimes it strays into Munchausen by Proxy territory. I remember a naturopath, Heather Dexter, talking about how incredibly sick her children…

If you had given this even two seconds of thought before spouting off like a jackass you might have realized that recent immigrants from countries with extremely corrupt and dangerous governments might be SLIGHTLY more vulnerable to some snakeoil demagogue preaching that they shouldn’t trust this government either. If…

Not just an immigrant population but in many cases a refugee population from a country that has seen one upheaval after another since the 1970s. People dealing with a lot of trauma to start with, who are suddenly seeing children with a condition they say they have no name for in their own language (I personally wonder…

Normally I would agree with you, but I have sympathy for an immigrant population that is being manipulated by shitheads like Wakefield.

Also the idea of “anything but autistic” is so fucking shitty and gross. I really just hate people.

The blood of any child who has died in the last few decades of measles is on Andrew Wakefield’s hands. How he’s not in prison is beyond me. He should be serving multiple life sentences. Were criminal charges ever made against him?

wakefield referring to the somali community in minneapolis as simply “the somalis” and expressly saying he feels “no guilt” is all you need to figure out what kind of horrid person he is

Well, I want one. Who do I call? I can scrape together the $30,000 if I must, but maybe I can get a sponsor.

These trash asses are affected by flights and shitty airlines, but won’t ever have to worry about racial profiling or being targeted by police. So why bother fixing a problem they’ll never have?

Where are all my crazy chicks at?

As a young newly out queer woman this had such a profound effect on myself and my friends. We had viewing parties for both the puppy episode and her Diane Saywer interview. My parents were havuing a very hard time with my sexuality and seeing Betty stand up for Ellen was soawesome.

Reverse mansplain = Explady?

I’m really lucky my boyfriend both read “A Handmaid’s Tale” in a college course before I met him, that he is a Poly Sci major who understood what it was saying, what it was referencing, the actual source of Margaret Atwood’s politics and fears behind the curtain, why it is right, and that he “likes” the book. (I.E. no…

That’s what you get for marrying a super villain. Well, a level 4 super villain.

It’s not reverse-mansplaining if the man is actually clueless about the thing he’s being schooled on.

My friend had to have her sons through IVF. Initially her doctor only put her on infertility treatments and they couldn’t figure out why things were not progressing better since she was ovulating just fine. Over a year later they finally had her husband tested. He virtually makes no viable sperm. Though she did…

Reading the book, I interpreted Offred’s definition of rape (and not-rape) more as a reflection of the culture she’s living in. Like... she doesn’t get to call what happens to her rape because it’s state-sponsored. It’s like her saying she used to have another name, but not telling the reader what it is (major…

I’m confused by that tweet.

“It’s a rape fantasy”? God knows sexualizing rape is a depressingly common trope, but I’m having troubling imagining how anyone could confuse the cold, clinical rapes in The Handmaid’s Tale with erotica.