My point of view is not misogynistic. It is the opposite. It recognizes that love is not a neutral phenomenon. It is a political phenomenon. Like every emotion that women have it has been colonized by patriarchy to compel certain kinds of labor. You can’t argue otherwise. Everything women do, whether inherently…

“You can love someone and condemn things that they’ve done.” This is just a hollow platitude. Love isn’t a mystical force. It’s a social phenomenon. Love isn’t and shouldn’t be unbreakable.

That was my first thought, too. I get that this is great for dwindling species, but in general, gah. There are so many unwanted animals as it is, and people just keep breeding more.

No, I didn’t miss that. This technology isn’t going to be used only for good. Humans should just get their shit together.

So now that we can make super designer IVF doggies (which apparently for *science* has positives) , PSA time!

My thoughts exactly. She put my life on like a costume and then tried to teach women like me who we were. She stole stories of real pain and passed them off as her own. I’ve read several accounts from her black female students, which claim that she seemed to have a fetish for black men, and an alarming relish for…

I will feel sorry for her if and only if she understands why she is getting the backlash. She could have been an activist, a high standing member of the NAACP, and African American studies professor, as her true white self. Instead, when she was bored with being ignored as a mediocre white woman, she cultivated an…

People don't want to trade in the hand they're dealt if it happens to be a pretty good one. I think it's easier to convince them to give up earned income in the form of taxes (kind of a "cost of doing business"), but it's more difficult to get them to submit inherited or accumulated wealth. And of course, not all…

...And this is the part where I propose the 100% federal estate tax.