Also let’s be clear: millions of Muslims follow even less strict modesty rules than even hijab, from looking like your average Pentecostal (long skirts, long sleeves) to being adult film stars. Many Muslim women, even those who would call themselves devout, choose not to cover their hair.

Mormons were forced to change church doctrine because the US went after polygamy. Certain Orthodox Jews are going underground due to crackdowns on certain circumcision rituals in New York and elsewhere. In some states, people who beliebe in prayer as medicine can have their children taken away when ill (some states…

I can’t speak for OP, but the hijab doesn’t bother me because I have no issues with women choosing to cover their hair or their body for religious/modesty/whatever reason--to me though, the line is covering the face, which is a literal act of dehumanization. Hair is not required for nonverbal, person-to-person human…

This is a good take. Also, I don’t know about anyone else, but I live in a big city, work in a male dominated field. It’s more likely than not I’m going to face some sort of sexual humiliation during my day (this morning, someone ran their hand down the inside of my thighs on a crowded subway). It really ruins the…

To continue that argument...if you outlaw beating your child, people will just not let their kids leave the house. Better to not ban it and not do anything else.

I’m not sure why, exactly, that would be better—if the electors were perfectly proportionally allotted, it seems like it would just be an unnecessary extra step between the president and the people. If they weren’t--why do people living in less populous, less popular states get an artificially imflated voice? No one…

Black people could not vote at the time the electoral college was created so not sure what you’re on about?

I think, considering the SC is going to be appointed by a Republican either way, they’ll go back to their old tricks of having them choose the president.

No, Trump’s camp had been planning the call for weeks.

OMG, have you read In The Garden of Beasts by him? I read it last summer and it felt eerily prescient before all the Trump stuff was real, can’t imagine reading it now.

Amen. My parents are still happily married, but my dad told me in middle school that he could easily cut me out of his life and I’ve never been able to forget or get over that.

Because Republicans believe that women, people of color, young people, and liberals are not capable of organizing that sort of action themselves--they believe that anyone who isn’t a white Christian straight man is inferior and needs to be controlled, and they can’t believe that if they also acknowledge them taking…

I keep hearing this talking point and it’s super confusing to me...there are more people in California (and New York, Texas, etc). There are more American citizens in California. Why shouldn’t they have more of a say? Why should white people in Iowa and Indiana, because they refused to economically migrate like black…

omg let’s all field trip then head down to sylvia’s

Except for how Standing Rock protesters are being shot with them daily, right now?

Why would you not hold him culpable for that? I am not ok with having a police force that can shoot to kill and then get away with it by saying they were scared. That is not acceptable to me in a free state. Why is that ok for you? If police officers want to take on the additional responsibility of protecting the…

I have random framed bonkers Celine Dion quotes all over my apartment, and when people notice (it takes a while for people to actually read them) that they’re not vague “live laugh love” shit they lose their fucking minds.

These kinds of nondenominational churches are not like Catholicism, though. Each one is essentially a separate spiritual entity--you join because you agree with the leader, not because they’re the church of your sect available. I don’t know. I give people who belong to them a little less leeway.

White supremacy, contrary to popular belief, is based more in white POLITICAL power versus white GENETIC superiority. People who believe that, say, tiny populations of white voters deserve the same political power as huge populations of nonwhite voters, people who racially gerrymander, people who support racially…

See also: dehumanizing serial killers for serial killing is the same as dehumanizing black people for being black.