I suspect that refusing to believe that Obama was a Christian was partly a way for people to rationalize their racism. They didn’t even want to admit to themselves they didn’t want a black man to be President because most people know that’s something you don’t say. But bigotry about religion is more socially…

Which is a very fine line to walk.

I think that works in close knit communities, but in larger more diverse communities it can be dicey. There probably were many people in foster care at your school.

I think it’s useful to acknowledge that monsters don’t always look like monsters. Not that it redeems them, but so that people stop excusing actual monsters because the had a pleasant experience with them. The co-worker that is always polite and friendly in the break room, can be a sexual harrassers or a flaming…

I feel like my father’s dislike of dancing would have kicked in before feminism. But that would have eventually kicked in too.

I think some places have father/daughter dances that are just a cute thing for fathers/daughters to do together like Mom Prom. But evangelical purity balls are a whole other order of creepiness with the focus on fathers as the keeper of a daughter’s virginity.

I guess, but it’s fairly prominent in lots of pop culture and history. Definitely shows up in more places than one comic book universe. But numerous people were willing to comment on camera about MLK’s Twitter beef with 45. Not MLK III in case you were holding out how. So anything is possible.

I think that’s completely wrong.

But if it had been all over the place and his staff *told* him to expect it, he probably could have acted like it was a joke. I don’t think Trump is capable of 1) remembering and 2) taking a joke.

True. But 1) will he be able to remember? and 2) will he respond with humor or lash out like a wounded animal?

I can see *thinking* the things Lena Dunham tweeted pretty easily. I can kind of see putting them in a journal. (But I’d be worried someone might see it.) If I squint I can see saying it to a close friend (although I am an old and when I was 30ish cool girls didn’t admit to caring about getting married.) But I can’t…

It’s probably an over simplified version of the truth. The food/protection nexus is pretty solid.

I suspect to a conservative white guy who has never strayed outside the Capitol Hill)K Street parts of DC that racial make-up is a complete surprise.

It’s pretty easy for a not very well thought out riff on a popular idea to veer off into problematic real quick.

Nope. The only full service hospitals are in NW now. Providence Hospital in NE just closed it’s maternity ward.

This follows Providence Hospital in NE DC (Ward 5) closing it’s maternity ward. NW DC might be the only quadrant of the city with maternity wards. I know there is a free standing birth center in NE.

Most of the NE and Midwest. Lots of liberal Catholic women out there.

Which I think gets to a very interesting point about the whole “white women, come get your people argument.” White evangelical women from Alabama, don’t see white women who aren’t evangelicals as their people. I’d be just another one of the coastal elite telling them home to vote.

Only to the extent anyone can turn out black voters. White voters in Alabama went all in for Moore, just like white Kentucky voters vote racism over everything else.

Moore would have won by a landslide among white voters. So it’s definitely not just the older generation.