I’ve had a few friends who worked while their husbands stayed home with the kids. In every case, the woman still did pretty much everything — the cooking, the cleaning, the laundry, all the childcare when she wasn’t at work. The man was considered to be doing such a valiant and noble thing for “giving up his career”…

A friend of mine who shares my chronically single status once said that whenever she starts feeling bad about being alone, she spends more time hanging out with her heterosexual female friends who are married or living with their significant others. Their stories about being the primary…

I’ll give him props. How can we shut the door on people who actually strive and grow? We get pissed off by people who support LGBT rights only when their son or daughter comes out, but at least they made the leap! I’m godawfully white, and southern, so I’ve learned to shut the hell up about issues people of color…

Amen to that. My mother was shamed for having gotten pregnant in HS. She was sent to an awful late 1940s Catholic home for fallen women. Her child was taken from her a few weeks after he was born. For a few weeks the nuns had the moms breastfeed their infants, why not save on formula, right? Then, one day, her baby…

You joke, but it’s not always easy to get registered to vote in Florida. To register to vote in Florida you need a Florida drivers license. But for me, when I moved to Florida from another state, getting that license as a Latino was a pain.

I’m tired of my Facebook feed getting cluttered with false equivalency. “Both candidates are bad, can we get a do over? Lol!”

Listen, if there’s any positive thing to come out of this election it’s that these people are coming forward and identifying themselves. What we gotta do now is wait til the election is over, find these people, tag their ears, and notify the general public that those who are tagged are not to be trusted as teachers,…

We don’t need to hear from both sides if one side is batshit crazy and their stance is indefensible. This is how Republicans are winning and manipulating the system. This is done for the sake of “good television,” and Trump supports get to go on the air and shout out talking points and memes to reinforce the “I hate…

“I had it in mind that a woman designer might be interesting for a while now.”

Anne all the way. Angelina has shown a preference to her in the past. Plus Matt’s too glib and smug and twatty.

I try not to engage with them too frequently, but these faux-patriots are the same people (ahem, my uncles and male cousins) who tell me I hate America b/c I won’t let them dismiss institutional racism or feminism or anything that threatens their rose-colored glasses regressive narrative - and they usually add that my…

I will say it’s always remarkable how quick those instincts kick back in. We’re city folk but we’ve got a small cottage in the woods that, understandably, gets mice from time to time.

There is little in this world that delights me more than the bitter, unvarnished, deep-seated loathing between Bill DeBlasio and Andrew Cuomo. And so it is with giggles and glee that I imagine DeBlasio’s smug, barely contained joy as he follows this scandal.

Percoco is only getting in trouble because he fucked something else up. Upstate NY politics is just corrupt. It’s been corrupt since (at least) the early twentieth century and it’s always going to be that way. The end.

“Planned Parenthood shouldn’t be funded by the government.”

He is a liar. He is SUCH a liar. He lies blatantly and constantly. His family members lie. His representatives lie. He is not *susceptible* to truth or to objective shared reality.

<allcaps>THEY ARE ONLY DOING THIS BECAUSE THEY FEEL COMFORTABLE DOING IT. THE SAME REASON THEY’RE COMMITTING HATE CRIMES ON THE STREETS OF NEW YORK. THEY ARE DOING THIS BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP AND THE MEDIA HAVE NORMALIZED THEIR BEHAVIOR AND BELIEFS.

Choosing chastity because you dig that lifestyle is feminism. Choosing chastity because sex = sin and realizing that you like being chaste is Stockholm Syndrome.

Good. Let this serve as a reminder that women have always, always fought. Vikings had shield maidens and Shaka Zulu had his all-female body guard. Women dressed as men to join the fight. They take up arms and become rebels and guerillas. In Russia they become bombers and tankers and snipers. In feudal Japan they…

If you implemented this at the university level, you could solve a bunch of the systemic problems plaguing higher education. Administrative bloat is a huge problem. In the past 20 years (probably more like 45, but I’ll be kind) admin has skyrocketed. Take a look at these numbers from the California university system.…