Well hi there. I’m a Muslim woman who decided to wear the headscarf. I don’t find it harmful - in fact, it makes me happier. My headscarf does two things:

This is gold. Fed up service industry workers really do have some of the sickest burn skills.

She made an active decision to have their embryos frozen, but she absolutely did not make the decision to have her eggs used by Loeb to create a family with another woman.

I think the situations here are different and not easily comparable because one of them (MRA arguments over women trapping them with pregnancy) involves consenting to sex with the reasonable knowledge that a child will not result and pregnancy occuring by accident. The situation with the creation of embryos is much…

It’s rapidly becoming an obsolete issue, though. Artificial wombs are currently being developed so even though it’s not a question anyone necessarily wants to think about, we’re going to have to start thinking about it. Having an abortion isn’t simply a reflection of you not wanting the physical burden of having a…

I think reproductive rights are moving (or have already moved, given where we are technologically) past the idea that it’s simply about the actual incubation of the baby. People don’t want to have children for multiple reasons, and the physical toll is one of them, but it’s certainly the only one. IMHO forcing a child…

You can also agree to get pregnant and then change your mind and have an abortion. The point is that the passing on of genetic information should be based on the consent of both parties.

Should a woman who’s no longer able to have children have her embryos taken away because her former partner no longer wants them?

Am I correct to assume that you grew up with parents who weren’t racist? And in an environment where racism was never accepted, nonetheless encouraged?

Because you weren’t racist and because you never said offensive slurs means that everyone must be like you? Not everyone had your upbringing. Not everyone had your lived experience.

Yeah, as much as I applaud any effort to de-stigmatize STDs, I kind of think that her dropping this info, unsolicited, on strangers is not the coolest. I’d be thinking, “Jeez, lady, I’m just waiting to pee. Now I feel somewhat obligated to have a conversation with you.” I don't even always feel like conversing with my…

Almost everyone in Nigeria believes certain government players have been involved one way or the other. Believe me, the US, UK, Australia and many other countries have come up with many different well thought out strategies to bring the girls back but they keep being thwarted by either lack of coorporation or…

3/4ths of this board would be outraged by a U.S. military intervention, as well as a UN one. It's grim.

#teamSpike

Spike > Angel

nah they both suck

I would be MUCH more aflutter over a tweet from James Marsters to his “Buffybot”.

This is all "inside baseball" stuff from some GroupThink people who are all jockeying for position to be featured on the mainpage of Gawker sites.

If Uber was going to comment would this be the appropriate place? Would you respond on a post where you've already said there are 1000's of comments? There would literally be no point in responding there, because true or not, it's such a charged post that any response would be torn to pieces.

I know I'm either going to get ignored or flamed, but I've got to get this off my chest: this whole Pinkman is a racist thing reeks of a witch hunt by readers who have nothing better to do but be self righteous and angry. I won't defend what he said, and I agree that it's not cool. I've also seen postings that are…