I don’t think you’re an idiot or an asshole, but I honestly wonder, Where would you go?

I just had a serious conversation with my husband deciding that if shit got really scary here we’d leave the country with our now 3 month old son, trying to decide how you tell when it’s time to go (preferably before a nuclear bomb gets dropped), and figuring out where we’d go.

I am not surprised in the least that this doctor is a woman. FGM is often insisted upon by the women who have themselves endured it. I’m no fan of Ayaan Hirsi but she is clear that her father opposed the procedure, and her grandmother secreted her away from the home to undergo it. As well as another case profiled on…

Quite. It’s why it’s very important that we retire calling genital mutilation “female circumcision”; the life-changing results simply aren’t comparable.

Yep. Well, honestly, it needs to be remember that it isn’t the same thing at all. What’s removed in FGM is not equivalent removing the foreskin. It’s equivalent to emasculation — removal of all or at least part of the glans.

I just read about this story in the Washington Post, and whaddya know, the comment section is full of idiot menz shouting “WHY DOES THIS ONLY GET ATTENTION WHEN IT’S GIRLS? WHAT ABOUT THE FORESKIN?”

? I never said it was progressive. I’m saying that women there DO have an interest in fashion, which is why fashion magazines exist over there. Not every woman is covered up from head-to-toe all the time. Thus a reason to wear fashionable clothes. Even if she is covered up outside the home, she may want to be dressed…

I don’t know exactly which countries it’s available in, but not all countries in the Middle East are as strict about clothes as you might think. Even in Iran, many women wear the loosest/flimsiest head scarf possible with most of their hair visible. Not every woman in the Middle East is in a Niqab (full veil, eyes…

What? That doesn’t make any sense. There are ALWAYS going to be other issues that are more important than fashion, and that doesn’t mean that people shouldn’t be writing about fashion. You’re using a flawed argument. https://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/faq-why-are-you-concentrating-on-x-when-y-is-so-muc…

“huge, manly vaping machine”

The Post got the 33,000 new beds figure wrong. The memo says ICE has “identified” 21,000 beds for long-term (>72 hours) detention, but only has contracts for another 1,700 and would need more money to buy more. It also says CBP has IDd space for 12,000 more people to be held in short-term (<72 hrs) detention. The…

Got a copy of this waiting at the store, and it sounds like it is going to be as good as I thought it was. My main issue with diversity is creators. While everybody else seems so focused on diverse characters (which is understandable), I think if publishers focused on staff diverse creators, the eventual side effect…

These places only use sex slaves brought in from other countries. There are no feel-good stories in these so-called massage parlors nor is there any empowerment. It doesn’t get much worse than this.

Apparently human trafficking in these types of places is pretty rampant. Many of the victims underage.

quite a large contingent think he’s innocent, and he’s maintained he’s not guilty for his entire incarceration (nothing too strange about that, though), and, if I remember correctly, the KKK suggested that they might have a role in some of the deaths, but I don’t think the police ever investigated any of them.

I was just thinking of her the other day. How she’s had a steady and commendable career since “227". She hasn’t broken out like she should have on the big screen. She was really good in “Jerry MacGuire” and everything else she’s done. She’s got no embarrassing moments, even in her child actor days.

My grandmother was born in a 2 room cabin on an isolated reservation in North Dakota. She was raised there with her 11 brothers and sisters, where they farmed and hunted for food. It was a rough life, as you can imagine. She ate potato peelings in the winter from the neighbors garbage but she tells that story fondly.…

You are correct. No one thinks that Williams isn’t A murder, but plenty, including cops, and John Douglas (FBI profiler) still to this day do not believe he is responsible for all of the child murders. DNA has tentatively linked him to one of the murders for which he was convicted.

First off, James Thompson is awesome, and even though I don’t agree with all his policy positions, he’s the kind of Democrat we need running nationwide.

Love this idea. The moment I read the headline, a vivid image of Wayne Williams’ arrest photo popped into my mind. I was a teenager at the time, and the coverage was intense, but distant. When I later learned of the scope of the crimes, I realized how little the media cared about this situation, beyond the initial…