Nope, but well done on your approach to political discourse. ‘If you disagree with me you must be a dinosaur with a small dick!’ I’m gonna be voting progressive and trying to nudge this country towards better healthcare and improved human rights for the next 80-odd years. You are a perfect example of the bullshirt…

I’m looking at this as a very small example of a broader issue. 8 candidates showed up for She The People. 10 showed up for the NAACP forum. 10 showed up for the LGBTQ forum. I could go on showing how the numbers slightly vary for attendance at every forum. It’s obviously good strategy to show up for a forum if it rep…

Last election they alienated a swath of the country because they forgot to take a broad approach - Hillary lost Wisconsin not because of high Republican turnout but because people voted for 3rd parties or stayed home. She insists she spent enough effort in the Midwest, but lost strongholds there.

Or, I care about the cause and the policy and think that anything involving a photo op is noise. Noise that is standard for presidential campaigns, but not something I’m going to weigh heavily when reviewing candidates.

Nope. I don’t want to hear about how many events a presidential hopeful attends for reproductive rights, sexual assault survivor rights, anything else that applies to me. Show me a voting record and a policy proposal or I’m gonna call pandering. That’s not to say that it’s a negative to show up for an event - it’s…

Maybe we could scrap identity politics this time around? Or at least see them for what they are - pure numbers, nothing to do with the virtuosity or policy plans of a particular candidate.

I love progress and we have to spur our candidates towards the ideal outcome in order to see an ounce of change, but it is cringe-worthy how we tear one another down on the Left. It’s why we don’t win. Ultimately, I think our entire governmental structure and election procedures are untenable and won’t allow for real…

I think this is a very powerful movement and I have a lot of respect for these kids. At the same time, and this isn’t a grave concern, just a little one, I hope that they all participated because they genuinely are into this.

Yes! Atwood is definitely one of those authors where you have to incorporate her body of work into a discussion of any one piece of literature she has put forth. For example, if we’re going to talk about the complexities of relationships between women in dire situations, Alias Grace ought to be in the mix. I can’t…

It might not be about respectability politics, but it sure as hell is policing something in broad strokes that should be personal. My friend has a white bio-mom who raised her a alone and let my friend do what she wanted with her curls. Fast-forward to her adulthood and she gets shade all the time for decisions she’s…

Thank you

Right, but with that scenario, no one should be afraid of someone who wasn’t ever actually a member of a terrorism group. I tried reading the tweet as /s to allow for it to make more sense, but it still doesn’t work because the first sentiment is genuine. On the whole, she may be a great person (probably, given her…

That is Ehrenreich’s criticism of the book, not something ever stated in the book, stated by Atwood, or stated by myself.

“I’m more afraid of racist Zionists who support Apartheid Israel than of the mentally ill young people the #FBI recruits to join ISIS.”

White feminists have a lot of problems they need to confront, but Atwood pulls a lot from European and Greco/Roman history, so likely the ancestors of white American women. *Adjusts glasses*

The redeeming quality is that it is simply put good Literature. I once spent a full week in a postmodern literature course just parsing the way she plays with language in the text. Also, I posted further down about how this piece is actually more historical fiction wrapped in a dystopian bow rather than anything…

I’m solidly on team No Reboot because I think the first season is perfection, but if they ever did, I think these criticisms would actually make amazing plot points. I have a feeling you’re not a fan of the show, but Coach Taylor getting raked over the coals and emerging with some revelatory pep talk surrounding…

What’s interesting to me about the prophetic angle, is that Atwood is first and foremost a historian. She has long-stated that the content of The Handmaid’s Tale was not some horror fantasy she dreamt up - she pulled each piece of it from history. It still falls well within the dystopian category, but I am sometimes…

This is an especially dumb thing to attack because Jamil is 100% correct. One of the best things women can do to eat healthy, think healthy, be healthy is to stop talking about food, stop posting about food, stop talking about your body, stop posting about your body.

This! Wasn’t there a study that teens are having less and less sex? Prolly a little preoccupied with not getting shot at school.