“Strident” has strongly negative connotations and is routinely used as dog-whistle sexism in the same way “shrill” is. Maybe not the best word to use in this context.

Jon Stewart covered women’s issues as an afterthought. Samantha Bee puts them front and center.

I was told this same thing when I complained about a boy who was hassling me in class and in the playground. When I was in public school. Which would have been ... OVER FORTY FUCKING YEARS AGO AND THIS SHIT IS STILL GOING ON?!?

How to teach kids all the wrong lessons about consent.

Absolutely, we should be telling the ugly and untalented kindergartners that life sucks, get over it.

Honestly, Sam Bee makes me feel so fucking...represented. I don’t know. I always shared Jon Stewart’s anger, but she just fucking nails it. She is such an important voice.

How misogynist. It’s awful, isn’t there a judge somewhere who can see that this violates a child’s Constituional rights?

I have a four-year-old daughter and feel exactly the same way.

Back then, we had The Daily Show, Colbert, and deep down, we knew none of those clowns were going to provide anything other than hawt taeks and oops moments for our enjoyment.

I never thought a Presidential Election could actually cause me severe anxiety and actual depression at the same time...four years ago, I remember loving Herman Cain, Rick Perry, etc’s ridiculous moments as I knew they were finite and everything would be ok.

It’s so bizarre how we categorized aggression in children.

I’m a sports coach, and I’ve had two of my 13-14 year-old female athletes end up in the psychiatric hospital with suicidal thoughts stemming from bullying and body image issues in the last few years.

Look, I’m quick to blame parents for a lot of things and I don’t have kids of my own, but fuck you. There is a huge degree of shame that comes with being bullied. You feel worthless and inconsequential, and even if you love and trust your parents, you might hide it from them because of how much badly you feel about…

“In the mean time prepare children for the reality in which they live, one that is not always pretty.”

I was, too. This was the late ‘80s/early ‘90s, and it shaped who I became, and I hate that. I couldn’t not go to school, because my dad taught there. I begged my parents - BEGGED THEM - to let me graduate early, or go to another school, but they just thought I was being dramatic. At 17, I turned to self-harm and…

It pisses me off beyond belief that a lot of older people still seem to be of the mindset that because they endured bullying in their youth, surely the problem with today’s kids is merely that they’re coddled or too weak. I had a rough time here and there in school but it’s absolutely nothing, nothing compared to what…

See also: Trump. A grown ass man (such as) who routinely makes fun of others in a public forum. And at least a third of this country is okay with it. FFS.

I’m with you. I was bullied extensively and do not want kids, not because I fear them being bullied, but because I think most kids are shitty humans (by virtue of their biological development- not bad parenting) who get a free pass for too long. Also, the world is over populated and climate change is a real threat and…

Social media has made adults into petulant bullies, or rather permitted them never to grow out of that phase.

Fuck you people who raise kids who bully cancer patients