No—my mother is African-American and my father is white. They joined the church when I was little, and while my father left it when they divorced, my mother raised me and my sister in the church (in Baltimore, admittedly, where the population of the church was way less white and had way more single parents). We…

I think Maru was happier before Hana, who I think annoys the hell out of him, even if in that gif he saved her.

Oh please let’s win the House. I can’t stand eight more years of Congress refusing to actually do any work.

I am glad he got caught now let’s hope they keep him in jail and the judge do not end saying “well, he has not killed anyone, he just raped some women and wrote something on a notebook about killing females, I bet he has a brilliant future as a fictional writer...”

Yeah I’m right there with you but on the other hand boys will be boys, locker room talk, banter, only words & so on.

I read an editorial piece in our local paper from some white, English dude on “why I would vote for trump I feel I were American”. The whole piece was basically acknowledging how shite trump is, while grudgingly admitting Hilary is better qualified, but that he would vote for trump because Clinton “isn’t warm”.

I get your distaste, but I grew up with two cousins who were conceived despite their moms’ contraceptives (an IUD that failed and pills that didn’t work because of another prescription), and our family always joked about it — the jokes being, like Reynolds’s joke, that those kids were so determined to be that they…

Maybe it’s a cultural or social class thing? I’m pretty sure none of the kids I knew growing up or my cousins were planned, nor was I, and none of us assumed we were. Where I come from, kids just happen, and parents were making various degrees of effort at playing defense. Doesn’t mean the children were unwanted, just…

 some argue that her laser focus on winning the election has been more of a detriment than anything else.

My parents actually went to the abortion clinic when I was a bun. The story goes ( I learned this at age 25) Dad didn’t want to go through with it and proposed to Mom. My fate was decided in the parking lot. Mom would have done it. She already had 3 kids from first marriage, I get it. People have to make choices and I…

I was once pregnant with a third kid who would have been a total accident (thanks BEER), and I kind of thought it was hilarious until I miscarried. My brother was an accident. My younger cousin was an accident. We all know these things. Nobody seems damaged by this knowledge. I think it’s a bigger insult to be the…

I can see kids feeling awkward when their parents say that they were an accident, because it’s always awkward when your parents hint at the fact that they may have at some point had sex. It’s also awkward when parents talk about how long and hard they tried to have you, and then finally it worked and they had you!…

Sure it is. Accident ≠ mistake. I was an accident and couldn’t care less. I actually think it’s a fun back story.

Yes, it’s ok to me. Being the product of an unplanned pregnancy is not inherently negative and it doesn’t mean your parents don’t love you.

I don’t know how she kept her cool. There wasn’t a single eye roll, smirk, or cocked eyebrow. Every attack he tried to make about her ‘illegal’ activities, bad foreign policy record, and her husband could easily have been turned around and she could have thrown so much dirt in Trump’s face - things that we all know to…

Really? I like Biden but I think he would be too easily goaded into a name calling contest with Trump. I have a lot of issues with Hillary on a policy level but I don’t think there’s anyone better to face Trump. She’s the most level headed person I’ve ever seen and since Trump’s misogyny seems to have been one of the…

I want the mother and grandma charged with endangerment

You know what, it’s quite plausible that she’s devastated at the thought of not having her dad in her life

This poor, poor little girl. You know what, it’s quite plausible that she’s devastated at the thought of not having her dad in her life - abuse within families is as complicated as it is horrific, and it could not be clearer that the adults in her life are encouraging her feelings of loss and guilt, rather than those…

Right. Women can’t win. If we perform care-giving labor then we are accused of corrupting, and contaminating the people we care for. Because our charges will become “feminized” (what could be worse.) But if we are ever perceived as not actively, and obsessively performing that labor we are literally criminalized: http:…