How about pornographic poetry? It’s a win win!!

We’ll see if Hudson respects his former classmate’s wishes and stops using her name as his pseudonym. I do like the idea of using a pet’s name and first street one lived on. Except in my case, we were so rural our street didn’t have a name. However, the nearest main road was ‘Kentuck’. So, if I ever decide to write…

I was in high school in the 80s, in Oregon, and my memories are fuzzy, but I think my experiences were similar to yours. History classes didn’t go much into the horrors of slavery. But the Holocaust - no holds barred. History classes also glossed over the treatment of Native Americans. I’ve noticed Americans still…

That sparks a memory - when I was kids (70s - early 80s) there was a brand of panty hose called L’Eggs, and at that time they came in plastic egg shaped packaging. I loved it when mom bought those cuz I got to use the egg container as a toy. So disappointing for kid me when they stopped doing the egg packaging....

Fourthed! (well, I know, not an official word but....) -a Coos woman

I don’t think any one is saying that. He has mental issues, been stewing in hatred and anger for years, scared his exwife and daughter so badly they got the guns out of the house and the ex got a restraining order, and one of his favorite hobbyhorses was whining about the growing power of women. So...for whatever…

WOW. What did the poor boyz think was going to happen if they read women writers - they’d catch cooties?? Their balls would shrink? WAT?!

And Josh didn’t get proper therapy either (I doubt his sisters did either). The ‘training center’ they sent Josh to was a Gothardite one -Gothard is the creepy dude who founded ATI (Advanced Training Institute) and IBLP (institute of Basic Life Principles) and wrote the teaching materials that blame victims for doing…

Hm. That gives me an idea...lets send the middle east a fuckton of Captagon with some cyanide in it. Poison the ratbastards out of existence. (Or strychnine -that’s a nice painful way to die,and if anyone ever deserved a painful death it’s ISIL shitbags)

Jesus Fucking Haploid Christ - that likely means JimBoob and Michelle pressured their daughter into making this petition. Because Jayzus and forgiveness and don’t give in to the spirit of bitterness. Just when I thought I couldn’t hate JimBoob and Michelle any more than I do.....

I was thinking about that earlier today. I wonder - abuse is common in Christian Patriarchy, Quiverfull and other extremist Christian movements (NAR, Christian Reconstructionists..yeah, there is a lot of horror out there) and they teach extreme sexual repression, foster ignorance, and teach that woman and girls are to…

The problem with fundie world is, they don’t teach their kids about boundaries or how to handle budding sexuality - it is all repression, repression, repression. It isn’t normal for sexually curious teens to molest their siblings. They usually make out with girlfriends/boyfriends. (or masturbate a lot. Or both). So,…

I think the two teachings need to go together - sex ed and learning about boundaries, and respecting them. There are too many homes where neither of these are taught (or at least not very well).

I think it does come down to control. And in the twitchy theologies that have been developing since the Scofield Reference Bible fundie revival days of a century ago, concepts like Christian Patriarchy, ‘male headship’, and even quiverfull has become steadily more popular. In their view, all women are supposed to be…

Indeed. It drives me nuts when conservative religious types screech about sex ed and want to keep teens ignorant. Merely learning about anatomy, sexuality, birth control and reproduction is not magically going to cause all the teens to run out and have sex with anyone they can find. Certainly each person has his/hear…

I doubt many are like your mom’s clinic these days - nowadays they tend to be run by radical Catholics that hate abortion and birth control, and radical dominionist evangelicals who hate abortion and who are increasingly anti birth control as well (this seems to be a movement that started catching on just within the…

Slavery in one form or another is very old, however the type of chattel slavery as came to be practiced in tandem with colonization (and the two are deeply intertwined; chattel slavery would not have existed without colonies to economically exploit) was invented by Europeans and Euro-Americans.

Wilma Mankiller was a popular and widely respected chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Considering that Andrew Jackson was the shitbag responsible for the Trail of Tears, driving the Cherokee from GA to OK (and something like a quarter of the Indians died along the way), replacing him with a Cherokee would be oh…

My kid’s school discourages parents from packing peanut butter in the lunches because there are a couple of students who have severe allergies to it. They recommend replacing peanut butter with sun-butter (made from sunflower seeds) or almond butter. Sun-butter tastes ok (I still prefer actual peanut butter). To avoid…

Ain’t that the truth. Sadly.