Well, shit. It’ll be interesting to see how these folks respond to the call for accountability. I hope they step up.

Honestly, I am not sure how a writer at Jezebel was allowed to write a piece about “Sex and the City 2" without mentioning or linking to Lindy West’s iconic review of that movie: https://www.thestranger.com/seattle/burkas-and-birkins/

I have some medical issues that rule pregnancy out for me. I was okay with it for a long time, but now I feel this little sting when someone tells me they’re expecting, or shows off their baby on a Zoom meeting at work. We’re all doing the best we can! We need to cut each other some slack! No one knows how to react to…

Agreed, and this particular question is something you float out in conversation with someone you may not know very well so you don’t stick your foot in your mouth by assuming their state of mind about the pregnancy. A social canary in the coal mine. If someone doesn’t know you well enough to know how you feel about…

This is really a strange take for someone who considers themselves to be an “empath.” People are asking “are you excited” to gauge how to respond to your update about the state of your uterus. It means, “Is this happy news or anxious news or scary news? Please give me some indication of how I am supposed to respond,…

Everyone benefits when the economy grows and everyone is damaged when the economy doesn’t grow.

I get lots of people who suffered think everyone else should suffer as well. It’s a powerful motivator.

Kinja is mangling attempts to add links and editing is not fixing the out of order text so sorry

You’re contradicting yourself by saying that it does inject cash into the economy and then stating a few sentences later that the government is not giving anyone money and all they’re getting is removing a “drain” on their income.

I’m glad she’s talking about the actual cost of homeownership, because generations have grown up and into their thirties believing that owning a home is cheaper than their rent. No, it’s not. Not by a long shot. The repairs and maintenance on the inside of the home are breathtaking, and the outdoor maintenance if you…

It’s not actually an effective stimulus, though. It doesn’t inject cash into the economy, it makes it easier for people with college degrees to save money and take on bigger debts such as mortgages. In essence, it simply shifts the payment to another lender. We know this because households with degrees are much less…

Sure, but when something like this happens in the current system, it’s not clear that people are discussing a headcanon futureworld with a reimagined system when they cry, “Where are the social workers, why is she being put in a police car, why couldn’t CPS and social workers be called to the scene?!” and “defund the…

I was addressing the question of “omg why were they even putting her in a car, why couldn’t she just sit there and be comfortable, why were they doing anything to her, where is CPS, where are the social workers?” They were putting her in the car to take her to where her situation could be evaluated and she’d have…

This doesn’t make logical sense to me. We’re saying “if we could pay social workers better, give them better benefits and mental health support, a schedule with reasonable hours, and substantial breaks from traumatic shit, we could have social workers work on-call 24/7, be responsible for responding to all domestic…

Oh, sure, Joanne, I’m a Russian bot because you didn’t understand what I said. I said “social workers call the cops when there are threats of violence” (which there were, the 911 call said the girl was threatening to harm herself and her mother) and generally do not intervene until a scene is cleared, making the…

The scope of the issue is bigger than that. It’s not just a budget problem. Social workers are increasingly going into private practice rather than working for local government agencies like Child Protective Services, because it’s a terrible job that no one wants to do, with high churn rates. There are not enough…

Agreed, but this is how the system works in most places. If your family member calls 911 because you are threatening to harm yourself and/or them, 911 sends the police. Even mobile crisis units with people trained to de-escalate will send in armed police officers first if there is a weapon reported, and the…

The news reports I saw said they were attempting to put her in the car to take her to the hospital and that’s ultimately where she ended up. (Presumably to the ER for a psych evaluation, that’s generally the process when people are removed after making threats to harm themselves or others. Even 9 year olds.) The cops…

Where did you find this information about the girl’s family situation? I can’t find anything like this is any news stories about this case.

You realize that social workers call the cops if there is any threat of violence, right? They will not go anywhere near a situation with a knife or threat of violence; they’ll have the police sweep the scene and deal with any threat or weapon that is reported, and then go in. That’s what mobile crisis units do. This…