Exactly

Ugh don’t even get me started on those two complete pieces of crap. 

Yeah I agree with your takes here. I had the same “sense” of her but I do worry how much of that was colored by the misogyny of the public discourse. Would any woman in her position have come off the same? It’s hard to say since we have so few women at these high levels for comparison. And I agree, the arrogance made…

It’s true of most hardliners isn’t it? They change their tune real quick once it actually affects them or someone they love. See: the Cheneys and gay marriage. 

Oh yeah I agree that Hillary uniquely upset people. It’s hard to untangle the why. Definitely there was sexism, there also seemed to be a current of dislike of her ambition mixed with something else, a disdain for the establishment? Her Boomer cluelessness about racial justice and LGBTQ issues? It really sucks for her…

Because in the beginning Trump was a wild card. He had some weird random progressive seeming ideas too. My super liberal European “progressive” (they think they are progressive but they really aren’t) parents were taken in at the beginning of the campaign too and were like “this guy has some good ideas” and “he isn’t…

He’s a whack job who literally believes that the worse things are for people, the better people they will become. He would 100% welcome a return to 3/5ths of a person status for black people because he thinks black excellence can only exist under extreme oppression. He sincerely believes segregation is good and…

So? It’s right out of the racist white savior playbook. Adopt one of the “inferior races” (because they don’t know how to raise their own children properly) and completely disconnect them from their background to create obedient little zombies while at the same time get praise for “saving” them.

This is dumb, you literally said that the trope is that cheerleaders are killed as retribution for being mean and shitty and you also acknowledge that this character was not like that at all.

It’s such a stupid talking point. Arm the teachers, really? So where are they going to keep the gun? On their person at all time? A shooter can still come in and shoot a teacher before they even draw. Should they be brandishing a gun at all times just in case? What if some kids break into the desk where the gun is…

Yeah I think you hit the nail on the head here. The social ties are stronger than anything else and no one wants to blow up their own social life over something that has nothing to do with them. We’re from a smallish town too but I am lucky that I’ve moved around so much and those old ties are not important in my life…

That’s an interesting point. I was recently added to a group chat of old high school art friends to plan a reunion type of get together this summer. One of the dudes in this chat was someone who unbeknownst to me had apparently had a massive crush on me in school. A few years after high school we met up for a friendly…

So what happens when you stop taking it? Or is this a med that you now have to take for the rest of your life to keep that weight off? 

I smile and laugh when I am anxious. I guess I should try to stay out of courtrooms.

In the 18th century and until about 1880, abortions were allowed under common law and widely practiced. They were illegal only after “quickening,” the highly subjective term used to describe when pregnant women could feel the fetus moving according to historian Leslie Reagan, whose 1996 book on abortion history in the…

Yes! I actually felt really bad for him, all that abuse heaped on him by Carson. Not cool.

Yeah we should go back to the very good methods used in ancient Egypt like....putting cow dung in your vagina. It’s NATURAL!

Faith in the Jez community restored. Thanks guys. I have been listening to the Maintenance Phase podcast a lot lately and it is SO GOOD at interrogating lots of myths about weight, diets and other health fads. I have learned so much about all this stuff and I highly recommend it to everyone interested in these issues.

They dismissed my comment also. Here is what I wrote:

Thank YOU!