The most infuriating part about that is that he’s one of those types that will NEVER be convinced that he hates women. “How can I hate women when I love women?” Rage. This I’m-the-boss-of-my-wife dude that my friend married is a Trump supporter.

Star star star star!! (From a woman with a functioning uterus that does NOT want any fetuses taking up residence)

Maybe Sanders can’t get anything done (and I agree, it would take some magic to make his views reality), but things won’t get worse. And what will change is the Democratic party, and maybe the Republican party, and maybe the mechanisms of political power in general. Which is what I want to change.

Yes, yes! I’m late to the party and grey so I will never be seen, but I wanted to reply with my agreement and say that I left a few other grey posts on this thread that say similar things :)

I don’t know anyone who thinks Trump and Clinton are equal.

Agree! I would never say that Clinton and Trump are the same, or that they do or would belong to the same party. But I would say that I don’t think either one is what’s best for the country.

I am one of those who feels like I don’t have the “privilege” of voting for HRC bc she’s the “best” option (even though, as you say, usually the check your privilege message comes from HRC supporters at people who are reluctant to vote for her). How can I support maintaining the status quo? I think THAT is the biggest…

I don’t completely agree with thinking of it that way, I think of it more like... my name only represents a small fraction of my family history anyway!

Besides, until we switch to matriarchal naming traditions, you will always run up against that argument. Sure, I can take my mom’s maiden name- but isn’t that really my…

My husband and I just solved this for ourselves! (A year after we got married.) I DID want to have the same name as him and I DID NOT want to change to his (even though I actually like his quite a bit) and I REALLY DID NOT want to hyphenate- so we picked a third name. Threw out “heritage” names from each of our…