I wasn't saying you have a bad mom. You yourself asked where the line on over-indulgence was, I gave my opinion. I don't necessarily equate that with bad parenting. I'm also not saying that I think you are some spoiled rich kid or that you don't work for a living. I apologize if I came off as insulting to your mother.

Yvanehtnioj also said "and also in the last 5 minutes of every TLC Bringing Home Baby episode."

I like it. If she's delivering, best wishes.

No snark. Why snark? Best wishes for the mother and child.

I'm normally a big fan of your work, and I really do agree with what you're saying in this article about letting people just live their lives, but you can't have it both ways. You can't say, "Don't be a dick about your religion, or lack thereof," and then write another article attacking someone's religion. I get that…

This is awfully rich coming from the same person who wrote an article entitled "Fuck the Pope."

You go girl(?)! People who don't struggle to reconcile their beliefs don't get for a hot minute what it's like to carve out an authentic faith in the face of so many loud, obnoxious, interpretations of said faith, and so much pressure to be more like XYZ. I keep fighting the good fight, because at the end of the day,…

I think for me it is quite normal to be critical of an idea/an institution/a concept and yet not completely abandon it, as long as I still in principle believe in it or think there is a decent core to it. For instance, I truly believe democracy is the best form of government, but that doesn't mean I don't see the…

I have often thought of abandoning my Church considering how fucked up it is, but to be honest, I really, truly believe this stuff, the core of it that is, and feel at home in a Catholic church service (except if the sermon is about "them evil female baby killers", RAGE!). I don't think worshipping the Pope is a…

Much like asshole religious people who generalize all non-believers, atheists or skeptics should not generalize religious people, lest they be seen as assholes as well.

Stop. Your self-righteousness is part of the problem. Rather than focusing your outrage at people who deserve it (maybe those who outwardly support the verdict?), you like to find nuances in people's displays of solidarity in order to feel special about your cleverness. YES, she can take off the hoodie and just be a…

I didn't consider this at first, but what if she is married to a black person and has to worry about whether when her spouse drives home from work if they are going to get pulled over? What if her father or mother was black and she had to deal with the racism they received as a child? Just because someone is white…

Nope. I actually deal with incidents of this nature every single day, and if you think people just consider black men suspicious you to be frank don't know what you're talking about. It probably made it more likely, but he hit the big three - young, male, poor (and in a nice area).

"Christianity" is a pretty wide umbrella. Kind of like any other label (say, feminist). Lots of us are perfectly normal, intellectual and yes, feminist (holler!). Hell, some of us curse like sailors and vote Democrat, too!

Besides for the absolute ridiculousness of the "tampons aren't feminist" argument.... pads are terrible! In high school I would double up with tampons and pads and I started getting yeast infections and diaper rashes from the pads. DIAPER RASHES! I stopped using pads and I never got another rash again. Then I switched…

Yeah... I'm gonna go with the "eww bodily excretions" thing and say that it's completely fine and not gendered or sexist to want menstrual blood to go away.

+500 points to you, for using the word "gauche" to describe someone's terrible, awful, grubbing behavior.

Also making up your own definition would open them up for a bunch of discrimination charges. Sticking to the legal definition of 'woman' your state identifies you as is probably the safest route legally. Obviously however it's a lot easier to try and get one school to let you in than to get a state to overturn their…

I agree. But what I am getting at is that Smith's hands may be tied. If you are going to have a women's only admission policy, you have to have some sort of legal definition of "woman" and they could risk lawsuits or financial losses if they don't have a definition based in current laws. It's true that Smith could…

There may be issues due to the school's charter. Many women's colleges have a requirement of admitting women only, so there has to be some sort of official definition of what constitutes a woman - in Smith's case it looks like it's based on legal identity. It's imperfect and needs to be addressed but it seems unlikely…

Well, the "one" document is a vitally important federal one so they're hardly nit-picking. And a women-only school is exclusionary by definition.