I went on a countermarch against pro-lifers with a local radical group, a few years ago, and one of them told me that Planned Parenthood was doing some horrific thing like trying to sterilize poor people without their consent. I got the impression other people in the group believed the same. I looked it up, and it…

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The most maddening thing about that ruling striking down California’s law is it was done on the grounds of “free speech”—at about the same time the SC decided that merchants can’t post signs about preferred credit cards. So, lying about abortion—a-ok; that’s free speech! But free speech that might affect the…

I don’t agree that Warren “didn’t lift a finger”. She worked pretty hard to penalize them, putting together an investigation and report, sending letters to commissions, and introducing legislation to try to make them accountable. Hearings have been held on the bill, but it appears it hasn’t come up for a vote. The…

(EmmerDoesNOT) an extremely easy way for the lawmakers to handle things would to mandate an age of consent to engage in sex work to “21 or older” across the board.

(Nemo N) ...doesn’t make them any less wrong

“Pretty much every definition of feminism...begins first and foremost with an individual’s right to self-determination...how can any policy inherently work against that and still ...claim...[to be] empowering women?”

Corporations always expect employees to bond to them as if they’re family (mandatory picnics, parties, potlucks, gift exchanges, team-building!), while maintaining the right to fire anyone at the drop of a hat.

I once was talked into trying one of those mall pop-up eye serums, and now I know why Melania always squints. Those things are like wearing glue under your eyes.

I can’t find it now, but I recently saw an online comment from a teacher who said every time a student wants to argue against abortion in a paper, the student is male. One guy was mad because his friend’s girlfriend had had an abortion, and they didn’t ask for his opinion on it first.

I think the problematic part about that quote is that she implies that women not being allowed to drive is not an important problem, because the working women have paid maternity leave. Why did she even put in the part about “ur worrying about women driving”? She could have phrased it along the lines of “even Saudi…

Good luck to you both!

This article shows how these prejudices impact the justice system itself. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/female-lawyers-sexism-courtroom/565778/?fbclid=IwAR0RBoKlvsfnNsnIOPamztC4Qjndk4iZfZIko1b099C-syek32NVJ5zH-38

“Women are very much built for success in the current educational climate”

I remember in Working Girl, she took night classes. (BTW, there was a movie called Working Girls that came out about the same time, which seemed like a pretty realistic look at upper level sex work.)

I read this terrifying book about evangelicalism in schools, and it finally explained to me why so many born-agains are against sex education. A woman was quoted as saying that she could never promote contraception to her child, because she saw it as encouraging sin. When told that statistics show abstinence-only…

yes, it should be “for.” It seems like they don’t even give these articles a cursory read.

Bruce Springsteen also publicly hates Trump and his policies, and refused permission to Reagan, Dole & Pat Buchanan for use of his songs.

Not to mention the evangelical fools they had at the ceremony in Jerusalem for the embassy switch. These were people officially hired by the administration, and apparently approved by Kushner.

I read a very eloquent comment by someone on the Washington Post site explaining that she loved him because his music actually talked about vulnerable feelings, and she felt that he acknowledged problems that weren’t admitted by other rappers. I have no idea why, for some people, that excuses all the bad things he…