Um no. My sort of co-worker is a California native and claims there’s been a drought his whole life and doesn’t take this seriously. Well this is different, buddy. I’ve heard from other folks that he’s not the only Cali native to think this way. Non-Cali-Californians FTW.

I like your assessment. Do you mean an improvement in the way rape is depicted in OITNB or in media in general? For instance, what do you think we should think of Bennett and Pornstache’s encounters with Daya then? Because that was also rape, even if she was consenting she can’t consent consent since she’s an inmate.…

Ummmmm noooooooo. Getting a kid thru the adoption process is NOT a guarantee. My husband and I have no money and no way would we be able to adopt. There was a lady on here some time ago who commented that her husband had diabetes, and then she ended up getting it, and she was not allowed to adopt, even if the kid had…

Damn I did not even think about Bennett tipping off the DEA.

No, it does. There’s a moment we think Soso might be dead.

Yeah totally. One of my first thoughts this morning though was how dense I was not to see that one coming. Poussey wanted a girlfriend, Soso was lonley. Nah-doy! Though I guess we don’t know if they’re girlfriends or simply friends yet?

I found the Chang episode to be incredibly racist. Like couldn’t they have given her something better to be involved in than Chinese people consuming weird shit? I really wanna know who was leaving her that bag of oranges. I love that Caputo saw the chicken. Also, Soso’s mom. Did they have to make her the…

100% agree. And I realize now that I am so woefully ignorant of my rights that there’s no way I’ll ever be as bad ass as this.

This is one thing I’ve been wondering, wouldn’t she have to constantly dye her hair, and wouldn’t her hair dresser notice the texture of her hair? How was she able to pull this off for so long? I’m disgusted, but also amazed.

Your response was so enlightening. Also, I’m going to use “I guarandamntee it” all the time now.

*nervously laughs and smiles awkwardly* Heh heh heh, heh heh, heh heh heh, heh heh.

Yeah I guess? I’d like to hear from Stella and others who were there. There could be a logical explanation, and I mean I love revolutionary spirit, though it does look pretty bad.

I feel like there must be more to this story. Che, fine, I’ll take a hot revolutionary any day of the week. Regarding Fidel, does it matter if it’s a younger Fidel? You know, the one who overthrew an also bad government?

I really like your thinking, yes, you can acknowledge a fetus is a person and still support abortion. These debates are always so polarizing, so either/or, so black or white. I’m not sure where the OP is getting her info about cutting the umbilical cord = human. According to the Planned Parenthood website: “Most…

Mmmmm I don’t like being told what to think and I don’t like seeing others being told what to think either, no offense. I sort of get what SDZ is saying, I think this person is taking a more meta approach, I mean there’s the potential for life or there’ the potential for death, they personally choose to err on the…

I’m really curious where you are getting your information that a a fetus becomes a person when the umbilical cord is cut. And I guess I’ll reference a website, but Planned Parenthood writes: “Most medical authorities, including Planned Parenthood, agree that it becomes a baby after birth when it takes its first…

Yeah, but if someone stuck a knife in my gut and killed my developing fetus that I really want to be a baby, I would want them charged up the yin yang with the most severe punishment available on this planet.

And if a fetus is outside one’s uterus, doesn’t that make it a baby?

I don’t know if you ever went to see Mad Max, but I finally saw this film, and it was totally based on the comments here in this thread. Ugh. Not that good. I thought it would be more... feminist, or something, and it’s not.

I feel like all I do is criticize these days, but I’ve never been impressed with how Jez and other outlets report on Ariana Grande, the whole Baby thing is beyond irksome. But why call her a “newly-minted feminist” and refer to what she says as a “rant?” These terms are rather dismissive of her, in my opinion, and I…