I suppose it wouldn’t bother me if it were approached from that egalitarian perspective (although I don’t actually think a sex strike is feasible, or an effective way to bring about social change). But the conversation around sex strikes tends to use language that suggests that sex is a gift, offer, or service that…

That’s what bothers me most about well-meaning people who suggest that women “withhold” sex until we achieve equality. It just reinforces the toxic and outdated belief that women have sex for men, and not for their own enjoyment. That it’s something men have to wheedle out of women because men are sex-crazed animals,…

The right is clinging to that defense, but it’s been thoroughly debunked:

“tl;dr people are fucking dumb.” A statement I could not agree with more.

That’s so funny, I didn’t know that was how nimrod transformed into an insult (Wikipedia corroborates the story). Pretty cool that Bugs Bunny had such an impact on our vernacular. And that thing about the book is so weird - I don’t think I’d be able to take the character seriously without at least an acknowledgment of…

Oh my god, there are. It’s a fairly common Hebrew name (also Hungarian, I think?) and every time I’m in Israel and meet a kid with that name I pray that he won’t immigrate to the U.S. It’s a biblical name that just took on a totally different meaning in American English.

This isn’t a rebuttal to anything in my comment. Yes, you exist. In an alternate reality, in which your birth mother opted for an abortion or your conception was prevented by birth control, you would not have existed. Is this your argument for banning abortion?

Well, what matters for our purposes is not whether a ban on miscarriage would be legally feasible or enforceable, as the suggestion was merely a rhetorical device. But to take your question seriously: perhaps the government could ban pregnant women from walking down stairs, eating foods they are allergic to, smoking,…

We all could have been aborted. This may sound harsh, but you are not a special case. I can understand the indignation at the fact that other people did not want you to be born, and I’m not trying to prescribe how you should feel about that. But keep in mind that you are advocating the removal of women’s fundamental…

This was all great, but Lager Ba’Omer made my day.

Yeah, it really is strange. As you said, I can almost get how a very dedicated anti-feminist might get a little thrill from malicious trolling (though I have to wonder why the more prolific trolls have so much time on their hands). But I thought the whole point of trolling was deriving pleasure from pissing people…

I think EvilTwin is a troll? I might be thinking of someone else, but I believe he/she has self-identified as one when pressed - on several occasions. Not always malicious trolling, but as you can see in this case, just gleefully carrying on nonsensical conversations. No big - if only all our trolls could be this way.

That’s exactly it. Carson is pretty much the GOP’s get-out-of-jail-free card, because he can serve as the mouthpiece for the entire party’s racist, deranged bullshit and it’s okay because he’s black. And then racist white conservatives get to have their views legitimized, because look, it can’t possibly be racist if…

And since when are we making policy about abortion based on the degree of “usefulness” of fetuses’ potential lives? That’s the weirdest thing about this (and that’s saying a lot). Has he really never considered the woman in this scenario? From what he said, you’d think there was no pregnant person involved!

I think the problem here is the formation of inappropriate relationships as a result of said attraction, and not the attraction itself. Notice also that the article makes several mentions of sexual harassment. This is not consensual, nor does it have anything to do with attraction, and cannot be blamed on the…

WHY WOULD YOU NOT FILL IN THE O’S?!?!

And your need to stir up shit with childishly petty comments in a blog that caters to an ideology vastly different from your own marks you as the epitome of good sense and maturity?

This is the exact battle I’ve watched my parents wage since I was a wee babe. My father has a serious T-shirt problem. Except his justification is more “but I got this one at an IoT convention!” and similar sentimental stuff. And he’s not a sentimental person at all - he just saves all his emotional attachment for…

To give a very basic answer, if you’re going Orthodox or Conservative, circumcision is considered necessary. In Reform or Reconstructionist Judaism, you’re accepted as Jewish even without being circumcised. But it’s pretty controversial, even in more progressive circles, since this is technically a ritual that’s…

As good a reason as any.