I couldn’t say but the source article I saw only mentions church; it may have been an assumption on Joan’s part. 

This. Thank you. To add to this, there are walled cities in which inhabitants can never see a sunrise or a sunset because there is no visible horizon. You can be born, live and die in a village walled off from the world. An open-air prison. 

You’re a braver woman than I. I just cannot with this, anymore. People who feel that the genocide of the indigenous people in the Americas was wrong somehow fail to object to the massacres of Palestinians in their native land. To even have to argue about this is insanity. But thank you.

It is both transmission and contagion. 

I get it. And great point.

Got it. 

And I realised upon rereading how unkind this remark was and feel a little bad. I suddenly felt towards this person that which many on the site felt towards Melania Trump: what do we do to ourselves to enable these men? How do we preen and pose and which message are we sending to others? Why this trend of presenting…

See, I don’t get that he’s posing. It’s only she who must perform: show her skinny legs, her manicure, and fake tan. Her insecurity fairly well guarantees that she’ll be replaced with a quickness.

No, that’s Vodka. Signed, a Ukrainian. 

Well, it depends. I admire (truly) people who can have a couple of glasses of wine, each night, and be fine. If I have one glass, I am fairly well dead in the water, the entire next day. It is multifactorial having to do with metabolism, liver health, and assorted other physiological reactions.

Or alcohol dependent? It may be her body’s desperate cry for sufficient calorie intake. 

I mean, who drinks multiple drinks seven nights a week?

Hi! This is what women look like without makeup. 

And you have more serotonin transmitters in your gut than in your brain. 

Grew up in a reform synagogue. 

The exception of Israel is a huge exception. I have rarely been to a reform synagogue that did not have a huge flag of Israel in front. We’re talking about an Apartheid-state that is occupying a native people in their own home. This is not a trivial point; it obviates every other stand.

Melinda Gates is 56: she’s the same age essentially as J-Lo and Halle Berry. 

You are not the only one. Might be time to organise.

If she had a hair out of place, doubtlessly he’d be on her about it.