I think it’s tricky to navigate this right now because, as a cis dude, I don’t want to take up space in a conversation where I’m not the person negatively affected by the bad policy. I think that it’s much more important to hear the voices of folks who are bearing the brunt of this, and I try to amplify their voices…

I am so mad at NY&Co for getting so bad over the years. I used to LOVE them, especially when they were Lerner’s. But the more expensive their stuff gets, the worse it is. Absolutely no shape anymore. 

But if they legalized sex work they could tax that too.

The thing that makes me (more) enraged is that I am certain that the vast majority of people who vote on all these anti-abortion moves know in the back of their minds that if ‘they’ need it, it has always been available to middle class and above people who can afford it. Worst case they go to another country, more…

There’s a difference between getting a household appliance ‘gift’ for yourself vs receiving one from a partner or child. I recently bought myself an electronic shower cleaner thingy, and love it, but if hubby had bought it for me, it would have ended up his arse.

You are giving Hoosiers way too much credit if you think a gay man could win a state wide office in Indiana while selling Lugar very short. Lugar was much more than a “sensible sounding person”. Lugar did more to secure the world from nuclear destruction than any politician ever. This Democratic Hoosier voted over and…

Oh yeah, of course.  I was actually referring specifically to so-called liberal men who are purportedly pro choice but never give it a moment’s thought because they don’t consider it important enough.

^^ I don’t think he ever thought he’d have a real shot at the presidency. But Hoosiers love a middle of the road, sensible sounding person (it is why dems would vote for Luger and repubs would vote for Bayh over and over). He’s a great fit to be a governor or senator for Indiana.

Also, he’s only 37! Being a mayor at that age is a great accomplishment and a good stepping stone to use to move onto higher offices if that’s your ambition. But the next step should be governor or a Congressional seat, not the presidency. The virtue of being that young means he’s got plenty of time. It’s not as if…

Can’t look at Pete Buttigieg now without thinking about the (imo shady) Oprah quote re: his last name.

Goddamnit, yes. Stop with the “believe” bullshit. I don’t have to “believe” in gravity to have it kill me when I jump out the 10th story window.

I actually added a lesson last year to the composition and rhetoric class that I teach on the world “believe.” I did it for just this very reason. We talk about how the sentences “I don’t believe in vaccines” and “I don’t believe in Santa Claus” or “I don’t believe in eating meat on Fridays” are fundamentally…

One of my childhood friends just gave birth to her 4th child. The older 3 have been vaccinated, but she expressed concern about vaccinating this 4th child because of “all of the new information about harmful vaccines.” I have advanced degrees in public health and tried to explain to her that A) Vaccines are safe; B)…

Problem is, we’re at where we’re at today because of personal and religious exemptions: a measles outbreak.  The vaccination/herd immunity rate is obviously not where it needs to be, so nah - no personal/religious exemptions.  

I take exception to the characterization of Bernie as “Lawful good”. His self-interest and inability to formulate policy ideas for anything other than white, straight, cis people often kneecaps the actually good stuff he has pushed for over the course of his lifetime! Also, his inability to hand off the reigns of his…

Yeah but this is also very dumb because presumably you are doing work for your client in jeans, you’re just not meeting them in person. So what your office is asking you to do is play arbitrary dress-up, which is patronizing. The lead investor in my company shows up to board meetings in his cycling outfit, full sweat.…

Because it doesn’t matter.  It’s a shit policy and it doesn’t matter if you’ve opened your home to puppies or wrote To Kill A Mockingbird...putting this in place is gross and discriminatory.

Exactly. It’s extremely fucking classist. Some parents might not give a shit but imagine being one that can’t afford business casual or whatever the fuck else the school tries to enforce. Parents have enough to worry about when it comes to their kids being bullied and ostracised and judged superficially without being…

I teach at a vocational school, and technically, I’m supposed to tell the students to take off their hats or whatever, but I honestly just don’t give a shit. Those rules are more for when they are working in the shop, and if they’re doing what I need them to do in class, then I am not going to get upset about a…

When the schools start showing outrage for...bullying victims, child molesting teachers, starving students, crappy teacher’s pay, racism and the death of Kendrick Johnson...then I’ll worry about the dress code.