I’m sorry; rereading my comment I should have emphasised that my stay was brief though I did live with a Quebecois family. Only long enough to feel completely alienated though some of it was on me. I did not make a huge effort to understand the life around me; it all seemed shockingly provincial and I had a lot of…

Oh dear. You just reminded me that in elementary school, we had an English side and a French side, with separate administrations, students and grades (long story as to how that happened) and there was so much friction that they had to make sure we met as little often as possible to avoid conflicts. So the Anglophones…

Right? I have spoken about this with another commenter but my experiences in Québec (in the 80's, too) were somewhat extreme. I was totally accepted for speaking French on a certain level on that trip with that boyfriend in Montréal. Three important caveats.

This whole experience sounds hellish. All for simply studying French?

jinni about to write an entry

Gotta show pics of this alleged cat, it’s the law.

Damn straight, girl. I registered at 18 and haven’t missed an election since. My family, thank God, wasn’t like yours in that way but there was never a feeling of urgency about any vote that I can recall as a kid.

9/11 aftermath 😰😰😰 for everyone everywhere

As a veteran of the Mesopotamian Unpleasantness, I’d just like to state that you were entirely right.

I marched in Washington DC in 2004 at the March for Women’s Lives. I was 6 months pregnant at the time, and was marching with a group of women from the progressive Methodist church I was attending (they sent a full bus of people from that church to the rally). I wore a pink t-shirt that said Baby on Board with an…

I was in college, a driver for a local politician who was running for U.S. House of Representatives. He was just “a guy I knew” and it didn’t hit me at the time what a big deal it was he was running for national office. I got the driver gig because a friend was an intern/staffer, and no one else wanted to drive around…

This star is yours. Enjoy it!

I was already about to star your post, but then I got to the part about pockets and my approval bloomed a thousandfold ;-)

In their idiotic world, an “alpha male” is someone who does and says whatever he wants and doesn’t care what people think about him. But even that doesn’t apply to Trump who absolutely NEEDS people to love him - hence the rallies, the obsession with television ratings and crowd sizes, etc.

Our sex education system DOES suck. Remember the congressman who thought you could get a view of a fetus by swallowing a camera?

I can confirm that our goal is absolutely a full-blown matriarchy. First we gain the presidency, then we start oppressing the men.

We start passing laws on what elective medical procedures they can have to erode their bodily autonomy, pay them less so they’re more dependent on us, only test medication on women so it’s …

I’m not suggesting that any religion actually does say this

Plus if those wusses think HRC was still getting her period when she was running for president, our sex education system sucks. 

Men have a daily hormone cycle. Women, once a month.