I think that this is a fair example of one selfish person taking advantage a very generous employer. I don't think it's a good anecdote about why maternity leave is a problem.

That's an interesting point. Here's the short answer: the current culture regarding the needs of business vs. the needs of human culture in the US is pretty clearly skewed toward business. It is also clearly skewed toward thinking about pregnancy, child-rearing, and home-making as labor for female bodies only. So…

If regulations make it equal risk, older people and childfree people will simply be the ones hired. Employers are smart enough to work around this kind of thing. I see it almost daily. If a boss doesn't want to fire you, they make your life miserable till you leave. Then they don't have an HR complaint and they…

Thankfully, his 'chinstrap beard' phases were mercifully short.

The press needs to stop calling this a beating or an attack. It's attempted murder and sexual assault. The woman was forced to watch her friend get beaten, then she got beaten, stabbed, sexually assaulted, threatened with further rape, tortured, and the only reason she's alive is because he decided to go look for a…

THERE ISN'T A PAY GAP (attempts to explain the pay gap)

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Because anyone who chooses to jump into the middle of a debate without educating themselves about the facts is not anyone I choose to spend my time talking to. I don't do it with men because I don't have the fucking energy anymore; why should I do it with women? People I also don't argue with: birthers, creationists,…

She didn't want to take everyone back to the minivan to do the diaper change.

One fight at a time? Women have been fighting for access to contraception and abortion in this country for over a hundred years. Ninety percent of these assholes' wives, daughters, mothers, and sisters will use birth control and one third of them will have an abortion.

<b>NO. Their actions and words don't bear that out.

shit, i honestly think obama is just a very reasonable republican, tbh.

I honestly believe that it's more about controlling women than saving children. If they gave a shit about saving children, they might not be working so hard to cut programs that help the ones that are already living.

The trouble is...they whine about how we should respect those beliefs, because they're deeply held religious values. But they completely fail to comprehend that whatever they happen to think about a fetus, a lot of people have pretty strongly held beliefs of the opposite.

Shut the fuck up, you apologist twat. Fuck you and fuck your small minded and simplistic view of the world, YOU don't know shit. PD's gather the shit human beings; those that can't create, teach, or repair and then they give them a gun and some power. A real human being isn't given power, a real human being spends…

I cannot recommend this piece from Esquire enough! It's about Dr. Willie Parker (True American Hero (TM)), the only physician performing abortions in MS (and travels in from out of state to do so). It illustrates a bunch of key points: the burden put on women by concern-troll restrictions, how ridiculous the required…

One person killing themselves will have very little impact on the environment and quality of life for all other living beings. If I die, humans are not going to all of a sudden stop being dicks to each other and everything else on the planet.

"My personal experience is that living together didn't feel like marriage, ever—in part because the legal entanglements and symbolic meaning of marriage are different"

Oh they're human. They're just not people yet, and therefore shouldn't have a "right to life" that trumps the life that already exists.

When a fetus can drive a car, let me know. Until then the fact that you're using the standard anti-choice word games indicates you're full if shit and you know it. Now piss off and adopt some foster children.

"oh please the liberal view is "punish unborn children" for the actions of their mother."