Oh boy that image is difficult to look at. Yeah that is what I am getting at, like how was it ok to be so mean and hurtful in public to a teen girl? They are obviously VERY young women in this pic, they don’t have this “looking older than they are” thing that sometimes excuses this kind of behavior. I didn’t question…

I’m not really talking about their outfits. I mean the whole industry operating around them. The extreme publicity, the exposure to so many people who saw in them a paycheck rather than a young person still learning about the world and becoming who they are. When so much money is at stake no one in a decision making…

Is it just me or do they look like absolute children in that header pic? I am a few years younger than Brit & Christina so I guess I didn’t notice at the time but didn’t any adults find any of this icky and weird?

#cotd

What the hell? Smallpox was eradicated in the wild in 1980. There is no way Nigeria is struggling with smallpox. Smallpox was an extremely deadly virus and those who did survive it frequently end up disfigured with awful scarring. It is famously the only human disease to have been completely eradicated (we’ve gotten…

I think the point is that trans people are a population that is more marginalized and vulnerable, therefore curtailing options for reproductive healthcare has greater impact on this group of people. I am no expert, I don’t know why someone who identifies as a man might get pregnant but I don’t really care and it…

Yeah I 100% believe that this is what was going on. And like EmIsMe I also saw actual women I know reposting this stuff, it seems like the bots were there to set the narrative and then “cool girls” totally bought it hook line and sinker. In my case, the one woman I know that I was most surprised by is into woodburning…

“Democrat” is used by the GOP to disparage the Democratic Party. It’s the Democratic Party and they run Democratic candidates.

Wtf I’m not watching this. I read faster than people talk, give me the transcript and stop wasting my time.

It’s like when conservatives loved The Colbert Report. It means you are probably too stupid to be allowed near a gun.

This is excellent advice. Another good tip from my environmentalist cousin: buy all your décor used from someone who just had a wedding rather than buying all new stuff. She admitted that it wasn’t really to her taste but it was totally her ethics to have a 100% reused/recycled wedding.

Yeah I am trying to figure out what is the point of this article? No one is forcing anyone to do anything. People often take on more than they can handle and it results in stress. Calling that trauma? Give me a break.

Was this just a super weird way of saying “keep your legs together”? Like control your intake of semen by not having a penis inside you? Or is does she actually believe there is some kind of internal mechanism we can turn on at will to avoid getting pregnant?

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…