Blood makes the grass grow! Kill kill kill!

Why is it a stretch to call it a sport?

That’s... actually about as good as I think an ad for grooming products can realistically be. “Let us help you do you” is a pretty good message for an ad.

Well for starters it’s about half the amount of money public health experts have said is required. Kind of hard to implement half of a solution so that’s both shitty and ineffective.

Pray tell, what makes something a “real” sport?

Business? Clothing? What new-fangled nonsense is that? Next you’ll be talking about developing agriculture or the written word!

While I don’t think email has the same impact as a physical letter or a phone call, I wouldn’t say it “doesn’t count”. The point is to inform elected officials of their constituents’ opinions and email is an easy way to do that. If the availability of email gets more people to contact their officials, I say that’s…

That’s why it’s great that those links also contain email addresses and phone numbers!

Tell your elected officials you won’t stand for this.

And it’s easy to find their contact information:

On the right side of the post (next to the star) there is an icon of three vertical dots. It doesn’t show up unless you hover over it so you have to look. When you click on it it will give you a drop down with a couple options, one of which is “flag”. When you click that it will give you a pop-up asking why you’re…

We fight hatred of our queer siblings by loving our queer siblings and we show our love by not tolerating this kind of abhorrent garbage.

Things are worse in the states. I just found out that my company offers a whopping four days of paternal leave (no idea about maternal leave) and I don’t know whether it’s paid.

We had pretty much the same situation when I was a kid and so all the contact forms had my dad’s office number (ah the days before cell phones). Despite my repeated insistence that no, really, you should call my dad, the nurse would always try to get my mom’s number because “daddies are busy”.

There’s no equivalency there though. No one really goes around saying “stop crying like a little boy” or “you run like a boy” or any of the other things that make calling a woman a girl so infantilizing.

I have found it difficult to explain to men just how aggravating that particular convention is.

I hadn’t thought about that. It does seem like broader military roots would make it harder to dismiss military issues. At the same time though you would be spreading the potentially toxic elements of current military culture to a wider group so it might make the problems worse.

I’m not sure I like the idea of compulsory service but I do think that we, as a society, would be better served if more people were connected to our war making. Relatedly, if there’s a draft, exceptions should be much harder to get than they’ve been in the past.

Journalistic Ethics, obviously.

A couple handguns (my dad’s) at a shooting range once or twice. He occasionally goes target shooting at a range as a hobby but I’ve never been very into it.