AND THIS
“I’ll be missing the entire concept of the word, the idea of a parent who doesn’t just sacrifice—as all parents must—but also doesn’t hold that sacrifice against their children.”

This is why Bernie is still in the race, and I’m glad that he is. His message matters to a lot of people and it’s good to keep them engaged in this cycle.

Oh, so close to want I really want

republicans thrive on low voter turnout.

I haven’t announced this to my family yet but I’m bursting with excitement and anxiety and nerves so I just have to tell someone

Proper training and regulation! Yay! Integration into the regular medical community! Woot!

Thank you. I am also a TA (three weeks away from my doctorate) and I have taught college classes for years. “I feel like” is merely an expression. It means, “I think.” Just as “I was like” is an expression that means “I said” or “I felt.” People (mostly men) who pretend that they don’t understand these phrases, or…

Yeah, in writing I urge my students to be as precise as they can when articulating a point, but when it comes to speaking in class or informal assignments, I’m not concerned with how they preface their ideas unless it’s clear that there’s some sort of problem. And I absolutely agree that you can build upon your…

It is not a “millennial” thing. People often use “I feel” as a qualifier when they have less power than the person they are speaking to - and are afraid of being shut down or dismissed. Most often, I hear it when someone is speaking to their boss or someone who has more authority in the work place.

Hmm. Interesting. My boss recently told me that I come across as too aggressive, so in order to “make people want to work with me” I should hedge more. And the exact example she gave was: instead of saying “This is a problem” I should say “I feel like maybe this could be a problem.”

I think that’s easy to say when it doesn’t affect you. When your hobbies, your job, and your very existence becomes some kind of political statement where you must dedicate your lives to “proving them wrong” while everyone else gets to just go out and do their job like a normal person, it’s actually not as much fun as…

Young boys are groomed for this shit, young girls aren’t. That’s just a fact of life, unfortunately families especially wealthy ones usually groom their son’s for this kind of sports. Meanwhile their daughters are given and education(depends) but aren’t groomed or pushed into sports because it’s a “boy thing”. When…

I guess it’s only a matter of time before an actual one in a million case comes up...

Pretty impressed at how fast you spun this story into a school underfunding issue. So: Blame #1: underfunding. Blame #2: fragile anatomies. Nowhere: the pieces of shit who beat her.

i wonder how much budget issues played into this, like the school not being able to afford enough faculty the halls and bathrooms.

Daughters. Educating fathers that women are actually human beings since the dawn of time.

They were totally awesome when I met them in this dream I had once

I don’t know if there something about the way her head is tilted but I’m seeing Milla Jovovich.

oh thank god I’m not the only one who thought it

I think of this as an exhortation to empathy. I am glad that the author has finally seen that she should not shrink from the world, or her enjoyment of life, and can wear her trauma as prominently as she needs or wants to at any given moment. However, and what I don’t sense in this piece, is what is present in…