Because you wrote it in response to me? Because we were having a conversation? You need to calm down dude, no one is trying to fight. You’re being weird and moving goalposts like you’re renovating a football field.

I don’t think this is bad because it makes Weiner a pedophile. I don’t think Weiner is sexually abusing his child physically. I think this is inappropriate behavior even if it is not sexual abuse or pedophilia. I don’t know how else to say that without becoming even more condescending.

So why was Weiner taking pictures of his bulge if not to get off on it? Honestly I’m asking? Was he asking the woman to tailor a pair of pants?

EVEN SEPARATE FROM any physical, sexual abuse, deliberately exposing or including children to adult sexuality is abusive. There is a difference between having sex behind a barrier (sheet, bookshelf) in a manner intended to minimize disturbance to children, or having sex in the same room as a baby who is not forced to…

(1) that because I’m round and have realistic expectations about my body, I don’t feel like I can work out, and/or (2) that I’m unhappy with being round (or “feel out of place” in athletic settings, or however you’re trying to phrase it).

I don’t think you understood her point of being in the same place at all.

Girl, it makes you human. Even when we are smart and can sit around and disect our bullshit gross cultural norms and expectations for a female body, we also spend however many decades being pelted with those messages. Being fit is not a requirement for being a person, and having an “ideal body” is not a requirement…

I mean, honestly, imagine how bangin your life would be if you had an army of personal assistants even WITHOUT Trying to make a lifestyle change. Imagine never having to worry about dinner when you get out of a meeting late, or never worrying about how you’re getting home when you get out after the subway shuts down,…

California’s parental leave laws are gender neutral.

You would be surprised (or maybe not) at how much bullshit continues to be passed around as truths at high levels of business or government. Especially when it feeds into their prior beliefs: women and people of color are assumed to be charity hires at best, unqualified affirmative action loudmouthes at worst.

The town where I grew up didn’t have multiple public schools to send kids to, maybe they’re in the same situation.

Part of this is also: if someone literally doesn’t have enough money to have their child sleep in a separate room, I’m not going to judge them for having sex with them in the room, but I’m also going to recognize it as a situation that is forced and a situation that children should not have to be in. The same way that…

“Aspirational fitness” is the issue she’s talking about. Working out isn’t glorified in this context, it’s working out for multiple hours or attending certain expensive classes or training with certain expensive trainers. It’s about this new show of wealth and luxery, that masks itself as something healthy. It’s the…

I think the real trolls are the people who “think” they know what they are talking about but have no experience. They just like to talk.

So you don’t consider any of the work done in district helping constituents with accessing benefits, legal clinics, town halls, attending local meetings, hearing from constituent activists and groups work?

Here’s my issue though: an instructor who doesn’t know to give people appropriate heads up is not going to be better at dealing with that material if forced to give a trigger warning. I think trigger warnings are a great band aid for institutions who want to avoid having mature, modern conversations about the role of…

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Thanks for the link, jon!

So she raped him? He was forced into this? Sounds like he should have called the police, not entertainment tonight!

Also, I’m sorry, what other job can a notorious mother of 8 work that will put food on the table? She should just go back to nursing? Nursing pays enough to feed and put through college 8 kids on one salary?