You literally can not make clothing for anywhere near the same price as you can buy it. The economies of scale just don’t match up, even if you just count supplies and consider your time “free.”

That assumes my wife or I have the time to sew. I’d more likely follow one of the other’s suggestion about joining a second hand clothing group. At least then the guilt of having cheap clothes is spread around.

1) I’ll probably vote for Hillary Clinton for a number of reasons, even though I dig Bernie and what he’s doing for lefty politics.

On paper, I’d love to agree with you. And it’s definitely NOT okay for anyone not to be paid a living wage.

It’s impossible to be a completely ethical consumer under current capitalism and some people lack the money to buy the expensive stuff or the time to learn how to sew and make an entire wardrobe for a growing infant. She’s not saying that slave-labor is justified. Get off your high horse.

What can I say? Macaulay could get it.

There are a lot of Chadwick Boseman fans. I know because I admin a fan page for him. Not as big as Cumberbatch, but then again there are a lot more white women going gaga over their own men. :)

You know who would be a good Thurgood Marshall? Jeffrey Wright. He’s got gravitas, chops, and he’s recognizable too. Hell, they could even try Nate Parker if they wanted someone younger.

Chadwick Boseman : Black Americans :: Benedict Cumberbatch : White Brits

Pretending that you have any idea what you’d do in this situation is like claiming you know exactly what you’d grab if your house was on fire. You don’t, and you never will until it happens to you. You can know who you want to be in this situation but that’s not always how reality is going to play out. You were not…

We need to get buttons made.

That’s awesome. I’m glad you had a father that wanted as much for you as his sons :)

I do have an issue with the idea that “strong women” means “women who aren’t meek and/or adopt traditionally male characteristics” and that they are more worthy of equality. I find this sentiment everywhere, but it is especially rabid…

The persistent habit of blocking out the structural conditions that make our lives suck in order to focus on individual choices as if these choices occur in a vacuum. (E.g. energy devoted to judging other parents who make different personal choices re staying at home with babies vs sending them to daycare rather than…

Some thoughts, hopefully relevant. Although I grew up in a very conservative household, my father, who like everyone, has flaws galore, taught my brothers and I in his own way thAt every human being deserved respect and dignity, and this included, especially women. For such a conservative republican voting war veteran…

It’s easy to say religion as already stated but I think that only is half the problem. The other half? Money. Making it and keeping it.

I wonder when and where he was radicalized?

Just over two years ago one of my best friends died two days post childbirth. According to her doctor there was complications. Her pregnancy was very difficult and they had to induce her almost nine weeks early. We were all worried about her during labor but she seemed okay. I was there at the hospital, I got to see…

On a side note, this is exactly why abortion needs to be legal. Women used to die from child birth all the time and people are forgetting that. It’s a major medical event. I hate when people make flippant remarks about “why can’t the woman just stick it out for nine months and let the baby be born?” Because its not…