Aw crap, I wish I’d remembered to edit this!
Aw crap, I wish I’d remembered to edit this!
It’s amazing how a man’s harassment of more than half a dozen women becomes a woman’s fault. That people are literally withholding money from Gillibrand’s campaign because of it is truly despicable. There are other reasons you might not like her, but this should absolutely not be one of them.
Interestingly, I’m a dude and I had a male supervisor sexually harass me (not unwanted advance, but he made a joke about me being attracted to a female executive and when I took him aside and said joking like that made me uncomfortable he said, “what? I can’t joke with you?”) very early on in my corporate life and I…
I like Al Franken a lot, but his behavior was fucked up and he did the right thing by resigning. Blaming Gillibrand for sticking to her principles and not putting party over country is fucked up misogyny and I’m not here for it.
Ahh yes, the old "well HIS sexual assault wasn't as bad as THIS sexual assault". Cousin of the "Ok, it was rape, but it wasn't rape-rape."
I’m finding that many people that claim the MeToo movement “goes too far” have not been on the receiving end of unwelcome and harassing treatment, and they have not been in the humiliating position where the receiver has to eat shit, say nothing, smile and try to gtfo without losing a job, friend, co-worker, etc.
It was Sen. Schumer who supposedly told Franken that he wouldn’t get the ethics hearing he was requesting (I believe that’s what he wanted). But, yes, let’s definitely blame the woman who was true to her principles that all sexual harrassment is wrong even if it’s done by someone who is really funny and votes the…
Here is the difference between Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden...
There is no way that Biden would be nearly as bad as Trump. I would prefer Elizabeth Warren, though.
This is an astoundingly cruel and shitty take even for 1981. Imagine how out of touch he’d have to be to ignoring rising inflation and outsourcing making it more and more difficult for American families to survive on one income, and instead turn the economic struggles of his constituents into a moral failing.
Right. Not to mention, even if you DID have those complex skills - say, you’re a nurse who’d worked in critical care and geriatrics - you would never be able to afford and probably wouldn’t be able to access, anyway, the sophisticated equipment needed to appropriately monitor your parent. Even shit as simple as the…
Full-time caregiving is a profession (most often unpaid) requiring a specific set of skills and not suited to all personality types.
Full-time caregiving is a profession (most often unpaid) requiring a specific set of skills and not suited to all personality types. For incredibly obvious reasons, not everyone can be a soldier. Or a mathematician. Or a stage performer. Or a doctor or a lawyer or an accountant or a teacher, etc. It would be absurd to…
Joe Biden would have never had kids if he had to stay home and take care of them and neither will I. Many people are good parents; few people are good full-time caregivers.
While I get your call for accountability, I struggle to see what would be appropriate here.
It’s not a question of deterrence; the cases where parents have tried to pull this deliberately have been easy to spot and there are very clear penalties for people who murder children. What you have left are devastated parents…
Right, but the whole point of the article is that they did not leave their children to die in a hot car because they were “busy at work.” I’m surprised that’s all you got out of Gene Weingarten’s work on this subject.
I honestly used to roll my eyes and blame “bad parents”
Completely agree with you. While I never forgot my kid in the car, I had nightmares constantly that I would. Also, my at-the-time BFF and I went to lunch one day from her home, completely forgetting that her one-year-old son was snoozing in his crib. We realized right when we were being seated what we had done and…
I remember one morning with my youngest I was so damn tired. Just exhausted. He was about 6 months old. Maybe a little older? I was on autopilot and I was just driving to work. I was about a block away from the office and he made a cooing noise - a gurgle or something - after having been super quiet the whole way to…
This, I believe, is every parent’s secret nightmare.