Not only is this ethically wrong, it’s dangerous, especially in a pandemic but even just from a general health and safety perspective. Any teacher doing this nonsense should be immediately fired. Their attitude toward children is clearly a problem, whether or not race had anything to do with it (let’s be frank, at the…

Yeah this is about exerting power and control, not about teaching responsibility. There’s something to be said for making a kid use a map instead of GPS sometimes to navigate, or to do longhand calculations instead of a calculator to understand the logic, but all of these “interventions” your dad put you through were…

I am not surprised this guy said this stuff. I am only surprised he was actually censured.

This was a couple decades ago. Any of this material would have already been found by now by folks actively looking for it. In any case there are numerous places where you can find interviews with these women now. (And really, again, I just can’t with this guy and his idiocy.)

I have a friend and colleague who did extensive interviews with some of the women who survived this and did some key documentation of their stories, and all I can say is, fuck this guy. And fuck right off to the journal that published this nonsense, and the peer reviewers who signed off on it.

Yeah, it turns out most people have never actually read the Bible and don’t know that the very pervasive idea that MM was a sex worker is nowhere in it.

Most private Christian schools, including Catholic schools, make teachers as well as parents sign a contract with a morality clause that states they will live the “values” of the church the school is attached to, which presumably in this case includes not producing softcore porn. These are very common and state very…

This situation remains horrifying. What I want to know, though, is what solutions are actually practical and reasonable in this situation. It’s clear that these facilities were re-opened because they were just sitting there and somebody was like “let’s just use those until we figure it out.” So what is the actual…

It wasn’t her fault. The power shut off in the middle of the night while they were sleeping. It’s entirely the power company’s fault. This death was 100% preventable.

It was likely in the lengthy small print disclosure documents that nobody reads.

There’s some false equivalency going on here. To be clear, the majority of Democrats (along with left-leaning Independent voters) want to change the system to a single payer system, something like Medicare for All. And part of the problem is, of course, that in its current form Medicare is pretty expensive, involves…

Don’t mistake this for a warning. It’s a threat.

This is how we all knew it was going to end, attempted coup and all. At least we know we weren’t being paranoid. Thank goodness they’re all ignorant fools being led by an incompetent narcissist. Had they actually known what they were doing, we’d be having very different conversations across the country today.

All these people are absolutely fine with no-fly lists... as long as they are full of brown people.

One of the deeply sexist tropes nobody seems to be talking about is how Barbara Minerva has a PhD and is so good at what she does she’s been hired by the Smithsonian, but doesn’t seem to know how to catalog or properly care for artifacts, and doesn’t take her research seriously. And when a man shows some interest in…

This article makes it sound like Biden was at one point on board with canceling $50k in student debt, or canceling student debt by executive order, which he never was. Democratic leadership has been pressuring him to expand his debt forgiveness plan to $50k and to use executive orders to do it, but he has more or less …

Our culture also actively discourages men from making close friendships with women. My husband’s close friends are mostly women (his closest male friend died very suddenly two years ago, we were a bit wrecked over that but nothing compared to his wife and kids, ugh) and I actively encourage him to hang out with them.…

It’s not a “transgression” to confide in friends about serious marital problems. And if this letter writer thinks it is, that in and of itself can be a sign of being in a pretty toxic, abusive relationship. We only have one side of the story here, but it seems like if there is no intimacy (not just physical intimacy…

Being always late or not seeming to consistently listen are also frequently found in people with ADHD (and probably other neurodiverse folks).

If you’re always late or your friend is always late, just ask for a heads up. I had a close friend who was frequently hours late and I’d just be waiting and waiting, and…

So, this is sedition, by any reasonable sense. And it’s straight out of the right wing authoritarian playbook (stoking feelings of fear + superiority). But do any legal wonk Jezzies know whether:

a) ...this counts as sedition in a legal sense? I mean, it could be argued that since he is advocating overthrowing the…