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What gives you that feeling?

Pesticides are unsustainable, species develop resistance...and sometimes we up the dosage so much we end up poisoning unintended victims, such as farm workers. For me that's the key thing with organic, I doubt I'm in much danger, but I know that other people are and that's not right. Right?

My five year old had learned to stand on a toilet and be silent in lock down drill. NYU public school. We are not okay.

Umm, There’s more to class than habits. People who have jobs that produce a surplus for saving have many ways of ensuring their children remain in that class position (petit bourgeois). The lumpen proletariat (the ones on the edge of the labor market, the long term insecure, who cycle in and out of low wage work) have…

This times a thousand

Yes this. Blaming ourselves, and being blamed by men. Not just for romantic problems, but domestic care, parenting, etc.

Oh boy, I have been in that feeling. childcare is hard for those of us who weren’t cut out to be pre-k teachers. Add a lifelong tendency to serious depression with suicidal ideation and a full-time career where you are being measured against people who don’t have children and you have misery. I’m not as good for my…

Do not pump to deal with oversupply, it will only get worse.

But there is no perfect world. Even if every woman had an iud until she planned to get pregnant, there would still be mutations and stillbirths, and many of those require abortions. We need access to both contraceptives and abortion services.

Watch Frozen. It's awesome

Yes. This is bodily autonomy. We are fully in command of our own bodies, full stop.

The only reason to be on the Internet is to read posts like this. Better than every MA thesis on social media I've read

The logic is quite logical: continue to terrify black people (and other vulnerable groups, eg undocumented people) in order to maintain political control. Overwhelming brutal force in response to the slightest dissent is the tactic of all ruling/occupying minorities (eg: British in India, China; French and Belgian in…