Me too and I agree.

In Birmingham here, and you are correct to the best of my observations. What I don’t understand is why they think Doug Jones could magically remove all of the restrictions and conditions on abortion in Alabama. The voters simply won’t allow it, so what does it matter to these women what his personal opinion on…

I know that it’s not directed at me, but as a white woman in an overwhelmingly white area, abortion is DEFINITELY number one.

This is what I face at work. I am probably the only open atheist (raised Catholic) amongst an overwhelming number of evangelicals. While we are a racially diverse workplace, the white evangelical women are reliably hardline conservatives. One woman is so openly bigoted that we’ve gotten into more than a few heated…

“Now that you’ve said something that sits outside the immediate purview of what I prefer to hear on a given topic, I’m going to suggest something that I think is insulting, but only serves to demonstrate that I have no idea what the fuck I’m on about. Behold my erudition, rapier wit, and absolutely staggering command…

Agree, though I think it depends on who is running the schools. Jesuits, for example, and some orders of nuns seem to care more about justice as a whole than abortion.

Exactly. Because if you actually care about reducing abortions, you do that through universal healthcare, comprehensive sex education, good access to contraceptives, decent wages, social supports that make it possible to raise children... all the things pro-choice Democrats support. Abortion rates go down under…

Catholics are very denomination based, there are lots of progressive Catholic groups out there. In the 30s, a significant part of the socialist labor rights movement was Catholic.

Be careful, if you use too many accurate adjectives or parsings, you won’t be self-flagellating enough.

This is only my little slice of Catholicism, but if they vote Democrat it’s because charity and service to the poor is a huge part of the Catholic community. I admit, I was raised by very weird Catholics.

Not just thin, either: anorexic. He famously said, “I want to see their ribs” about ballerinas. Through their costumes. Being able to see a woman’s ribs *through clothing* is a dead giveaway of malnutrition and/or anorexia. He made it the goddamn standard. Sick bastard.

I get INTO IT with anyone who tells me how they liked that movie. I point out that if people are not driven, no amount of bullying or sadism can make someone decide to apply themselves. This idea that you can teach people grit by acting like the drill sergeant in Full Metal Jacket is just wrong. People reach their…

I watched the first forty-five minutes in a room full of Classical musicians.

Yup. My mom danced professionally for a bit, she had internalized the abusive culture so much that I don’t think she ever realized she had what we would now call an eating disorder. She loved dance though, and started me in classes when I was 4.

Balanchine was a pig. He made abusing his ballerinas into a sport.

The men of the NYCB have a long history of treating ballerinas like shit. Suzanne Farrell’s accounts of her relationship with Balanchine absolutely turned my stomach. Ugh.

It was only a matter of time before this came for the dance world. SO MUCH shit happens in ballet - it’s the perfect storm (ridiculously competitive, very aggressive instructor culture/culture of belittling students, drive for perfection, kids leaving home sans parents at a young age).

“Imagine a secondary school with 600 pupils. Are they going to put all their phones in a box? How do you store them? And give them back at the end?,”

Do they both have day jobs creating those dumb twee names for Modcloth clothes? Those captions make me want to vomit.

Step 1: Don’t bring your mother.