I know, right? This is literally true, though. Here’s an article about Fuqua, which mentions Michelle & Jim Bob giving money to his campaign: http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/a…

Yep. In 2012 the Duggars supported and campaigned for Charlie Fuqua, an Arkansas politician who *advocates introducing the death penalty for rebellious children.* The Duggars literally support capital punishment for disobedient children. Just obvi that doesn’t include their white Christian male.

Or if he were the imagined specter of trans women molesting your daughters in public restrooms, which is what Michelle Duggar claimed would happen if a Fayetteville, Arkansas, anti-discrimination law passed. The bill failed due in large part to Michelle’s intense lobbying based on the claim that trans women are out to…

This. What we reality-based horrified observers of this shitshow aren’t getting is that in the right-wing fundy worldview the concept of women’s consent does not exist in the first place.

It is a definite and documented thing that the style of “counseling” that exists for female victims of rape and sexual abuse in the Duggars’ particular variety of Christianity focuses on encouraging the girl/woman to examine what she could have done wrong to tempt the abuser.

Yup, in the system of fundy religion, abusing women and girls isn’t a failure of the system, it’s a feature of the system.

Yeah, I don’t get how they just never notice their pattern of always being on the wrong side of history, and decide to maybe try not always being on the wrong side of history.

I’d like to second the objection to the category of “useless degrees.” Attending college without any support from my parents, I took on considerable debt to get liberal arts degrees and was constantly told that because I was acquiring debt, it was irresponsible of me to study something “useless.” My education trained…

My parents weren't specifically atheists, but they were secular hippies who, if pressed on the topic of religion, would at most muster something really vague about nature making them feel spiritual. I was totally unchurched and had to tell people "I'm nothing" when they asked what religion I was. A lot of my childhood…

Ugh, yes, the mom thing is the worst (and also really extreme in American culture, at least in my experience). If a woman who has reproduced does *anything,* she's doing it as a mom. She goes somewhere with her friends, it's a moms' getaway. She has stressful work deadlines, she's a frazzled mom. She goes to the…

Yup, this has happened to me in a few relationships. In retrospect it was always at a point where the relationship really should have ended a while earlier, and I see it as my body having been smarter than my conscious emotions - the emotional process that led me to realize the relationship had to end always set in a…

I totally agree with you - the American fixation on casualness / compulsion to talk to everyone like they're your best friend just obscures unfairness and inequality without improving them in any way.

I second that this fixation on age brackets is an American thing. I'm 37 and recently moved back to the US after many years in Europe, and am pretty stunned by what is considered age-inappropriate for me in this country. For example, a lot of Americans seem to think nobody over 30 should wear a miniskirt. WTF? In…

I live in Vermont, where every hipster dude looks like this. Some of the more hard-core Lumbersexuals around here have a certain Steampunk undertone - they supplement all the plaid flannel with waxed mustaches and a way of talking that sometimes sounds like they think they're in a nineteenth-century saloon.

I went to a Midwestern liberal arts college. Most of my college class, including all of my friends, studied abroad for spring semester of junior year, leaving behind only a few of us who couldn't afford to go abroad. With so many friends gone, we left-behind poor kids were now hard up for roommates as well as money.…