I’m happy Jones didn’t drop the abortion issue when it possibly could have made it an easier win. It means so much more that he stuck to his beliefs AND won. Many Democrats in his position would have changed there stance in a second or you know have Tim Kaine as their VP. (I happily voted for Hilary, but that felt…

The issue that democrats need to understand though - if they changed their platform and became the party of 100% prohibition no abortions for anyone - the republican purse strings would simply move the goalpost.

I think this is an interesting point, and it’s the *only* way I can logic Alabama’s support of Moore. To them, it was a choice between a child molester and a child murderer, and they chose what they perceived to be the lesser of two evils.

Same. The racist policy stuff is just icing on the anti-choice cake.

I grew up in Alabama, and I agree. Abortion being THE issue at the ballots was preached from my family and from the pulpit, and it took moving out of the state to reverse the brainwashing. It was framed as, if you voted for a pro-choice candidate you were the problem. Nothing is more important in Southern politics…

I’m pretty sure the white woman GOP voters in my family (Alabamans) vote 100% only based on abortion. They will never vote for someone who admits to being pro-choice. For real. That and they are stealth racists who don’t care about equality. It’s like beating your head against a wall to convince them anything other…

Actually, yeah, it is, because it doesn’t involve the centuries of partiarchal bullshit that says older men deserve younger, more attractive wives.

They’re conditioned to think that way from infancy, basically. It leads to the occasional awkward interaction in my classroom, when some guy tries really hard to establish himself as the authority rather than me. True story: I once had a student complain about the way I graded his exam, and he started with “I’ve taken…

He just had to get the last word and use that word to try to reassert the power that he thinks is his god-given white male right. She knocked him off balance when she disclosed she was a victim. Many men don’t know what to do when they feel they’ve lost control to a woman, so he had to put himself back on top by…

This is a great test case for malicious intent.

I’m no Brad Pitt, so perhaps I’ve managed to avoid many unwanted advances, but they’ve still occurred occasionally. They’ve included a grope on the arse at work, being grabbed and smooched on a dancefloor, to having a woman get way too far into my personal space at a concert. My responses have ranged from very mild…

This is all you need to know. Black women are the base of the Democratic Party. Despite voter suppression, black voters came out strong. I wish the Democratic Party would take the issue of voter suppression more seriously. Let’s hope we get something out of this. Jones did thank us in his victory speech and quoted…

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I was a political science major, and I have been doing a lot of thinking about what a Jones upset would mean. It’s pretty significant, and requires a fair amount of nuanced thinking. So I apologize in advance if this gets kind of dense and long, but here’s the analysis of someone who studies and thinks about this…

What’s your point, Tom? That we shouldn’t bother to try making the entertainment industry a better place? That that’s just the way it is? That when men act like this, they’re “misunderstood” or “passionate,” but when women act out, they’re “difficult” and “high maintenance” and that’s okay?

Enh, exactly what you’d expect from someone married to a left winger.