Especially Bernie.

It’s also something I’ve heard a white upper middle class doctor say about a white farmer (who also happens to have been well-educated). In this case it’s not on perceived race but on perceived social class. The common denominator is it tells you alot about the person who said it.

Good lord. One doctor visit and some drugs can cost that. That’s also about as much as a single visit to a veterinarian for my dog for a 15 minute routine check-up.

I have insurance and it’s the same.  Yearly the coverage gets shoddier and shoddier.  For some routine appointments I have a copay but for anything else it’s I pay 20%.  Plus a copay for drugs that can be as much as $100 for what I take.  So private insurance is no picnic either, and I have employer insurance from a…

That is so dumb. What about one of the many people who go undiagnosed until they finally see a specialist?

Ha! In my town it takes a YEAR to get a dermatologist appointment. I make one yearly just because if I didn’t and needed an appointment I’d never get in.

I’ve heard similar as:

Sounds like she’s struggling to think of anything nice to say.

And some women feel it’s a step against us. Sorry you can’t be supportive of us. It goes both ways. I’d be happy for you to have your own marketing. I am not unhappy you are being recognized.  What I am unhappy about is the group I identify with being de-recognized.

Notice only one person is being hostile and rude.  The rest of us are commenting without making personal attacks on other posters.

Why does its presence or absence not affect me, yet suddenly what is insignificant for me is huge for them. I am allowed to have feelings.You are allowed to have feelings. You are not allowed to tell me only your feelings matter and I’m not allowed to have mine.

Being pro-woman is not the same as anti-trans.  I support everyone’s right to be whatever makes them happy.  I do not support one group’s right to have feelings on a topic while telling another group to shut up.

Why do you get to have an opinion that the change is positively meaningful to you, yet you think women aren’t allowed to feel it has a negative meaning to us?

To be fair, I could do without the safety razor. No safety razor=no tyranny of being expected to shave basically your entire body save your arms.

Scars seem like a cool thing to show off on a buzzed head. But if you like it covered with hair instead, you do you. I’m making a general joke, letting off some steam at the patriarchy.. I’m not trying to comment on any specific person’s situation.

No, the buzz cut is the proper tool to deal with male pattern baldness.  Bangs in an attempt to hide baldness are just a symptom of male pattern cluelessness.

What’s germane is things for women are frequently pressured to be de-gendered for the convenience of non-women.  Yet I have not heard a single report about things for men being de-gendered for non-men.

I kinda doubt their numbers are greater. They are probably just louder but the backlash is coming, eventually women will get sick of having everything for us co-opted and spayed.

Tiny quibble, what you said about her not trusting password managers directly contradicts what’s in the tweets quoted in this article.

Why stop at making them a POC? Let’s make them a woman while we’re at it, let them experience a wider range of marginalization.